New Features Available in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4

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Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 includes the following new features that are installed by Update.exe:

• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) Listener
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  172514 Silent RIP for IP Available for Windows NT Workstation
• Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) 2.1
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  186358 How to Enable TAPI 2.1 in Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4
• Microsoft File and Print Service for NetWare (FPNW) Support for Client32
• Active Accessibility Support
• DCOM/HTTP Tunneling
• Visual Studio-MICS
• Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) Enhancements for Visual Basic (VB)
• Remote Winsock (DNS/Port 53)
• IP Helper API (IPHLPAPI)
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  193059 INFO: IP Helper APIs Add Net Config and Stat Info to Win32 Apps
• InternetGroup Management Protocol (IGMP) version 2
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  193907 Windows NT 4.0 SP4 Supports IGMP Version 2
• Euro Key Patch
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  182005 Euro Currency Not Available in Windows NT Character Sets
• Year 2000 (Y2K) Issues
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  175093 User Manager Does Not Recognize February 2000 As a Leap Year
  
  180122 After Changing the Time, Windows NT May Skip a Day
  
  183123 Find Files Displays Garbled Date if Year is 2000 or Greater
  
  183125 Shell Doc Property Dialog Custom Date Incorrect after Year 2000
• CryptoAPI and Authenticode
• Profile Quotas (Proquota.exe)
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  185561 How to Enable Profile Quotas in Windows NT 4.0
• Microsoft Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  189594 RRAS Upgrade for WinNT Server 4.0 Hotfix Pack 3.0 Release Notes
• PPTP Performance and Security Update
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  189595 PPTP Performance & Security Upgrade for WinNT 4.0 Release Notes
• CHKDSK Enhancements
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  191603 Modifying the Autochk.exe Time-out Value
  
  187941 An Explanation of CHKDSK and the New /C and /I Switches
• New functionality with NBTSTAT.EXE
  
  For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  188598 Renewing Wins Client Registrations with NBTSTAT -RR

The CD-ROM version of Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 includes the following new features:

• Compaq Fibre Storage Driver
• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) For more information, please see the Service Pack 4 Readme.txt file and the Readme.txt file in the \Wbem folder.
• Message Queue (MSMQ) for Windows 95 Client
• Security Configuration Manager (SCM)
  
  For more information, please see the Service Pack 4 Readme.txt file and the Readme.txt file in the \Mssce folder.
• Windows NT Server NetShow Services
  
  For more information, please see the Service Pack 4 Readme.txt file and the Ntsp4-ns.htm and Ns-readme.htm files in the \NetShow folder.
• Windows Media Player
  
  For more information, please see the Service Pack 4 Readme.txt file and the Readme.txt file in the \Mplayer2 folder.
• Site Server Express 3.0 (Upgrade Only)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1
• Microsoft Data Access Components 2.0 Service Pack 1

For additional features added to a system with Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4, query in the Knowledge Base on the key word NT4SP4FEA. For bug fixes, query on the key word NT4SP4FIX.