The other thing I can tell the client components are not patched is the maintenance plan. I could not access the maintenance plan by using the SSMS in this SQL...

When I go to help and about from SSMS, it show the version and it's still the version before applying the patch.

Thanks.

We have two named instances of SQL Server 2005 cluster on four nodes, if we are going to assign a static ports for each named instances, will this affect...

Thanks for all the useful info.

Wondering if there is a DBA tool available for retrieving SQL password for database logins? Thanks.