How stable is SMS SP2 on Windows 2000?

It really depends on what your current structure is like.  If you have NT 4.0 servers and workstations that authenticate to a Windows 2000 domain and/or Windows 2000 workstations that authenticate with a NT 4.0 domain, you will want mixed mode. If your structure is completely Windows 2000 (workstations and servers) use native mode.  Native mode gives you access to the full spectrum of Windows 2000 benefits. In Windows 2000, NTLM (Windows NT Challenge/Response authentication), is used as the authentication protocol for transactions between two computers in a domain, where one or both computers is running Windows NT 4.0 or earlier. Windows 2000 is installed in a mixed-mode network configuration by default. A mixed-mode network configuration uses any combination of Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. If you do not have a mixed-mode network, you can disable NTLM authentication by switching to native mode at a domain controller. As examples, the following configurations would use NTLM as the authentication mechanism: - A Windows 2000 Professional client authenticating to a Windows NT 4.0 domain controller. - A Windows NT 4.0 Workstation client authenticating to a Windows 2000 domain controller. - A Windows NT 4.0 Workstation client authenticating to a Windows NT 4.0 domain controller. - Users in a Windows NT 4.0 domain authenticating to a Windows 2000 domain. In addition, NTLM is the authentication protocol for computers that are not participating in a domain, such as stand-alone servers and workgroups.

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