Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 On TechNet

For those subscribed to TechNet the service pack is available for download:

We will be deploying the service pack to our Hyper-V servers to gain access to some of the new Hyper-V features that we are interested in including new memory commitment structures and RemoteFX capabilities.

• TechNet Blogs: The new "Dynamic Memory" feature of Hyper-V explained
• Microsoft Virtualization Blog: Explaining Microsoft RemoteFX

There is one known caveat to installing SP1 on machines that have the pre-release version of RSAT installed:

• TechNet Ramblings of a Support Engineer Blog You receive exit code 0x800f081f when attempting to install SP1 for Win7/R2

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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