HI Rob
How are you doing - long time no speak ?
Unfortunatly we were not aware of the SP1b so went straight to SP2, which apparently includes SP1b but unfortunatly this snipet of useful information was not included in the SP2 ReadMe.
Whilst Adobe say that you can install SP2 without SP1b I'm not so sure. I have in the last 4 days seen the SP2 upgrade cause some really wierd behaviour such as completely killing the ES eMail service, and causing DropLists not to be populated when the forms are rendered - but ONLY DropLists, every other field type renders fine.
Even uninstalling the SP2 patch did not cure these problems so I had to revert our clients system to a pre-SP2 backup.
OTOH I've installed SP2 on a number of our development VMs and whilst a bit fiddly, once I figured out the right sequence, these installed OK.
I did a Manual File Copy deployment of SP2 on-site today, as not willing to risk the same failure as last week, and this worked for the AWS_ACTION fix in SP2 - but did not cure the @@instructions@@ bug in the Subject Line of eMails - which was apparently fixed in SP1b - so again I'm not sure going straigth to SP2 from SP0 is 100% reliable. Despite all the modules reporting their Versions as 8.0.1 SP2.
Hope you are well - best regards - Stuart