I've had two customers recently run into the issue of the installation of SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 failing on their Data Protection Manager (DPM) servers (in this case, DPM 2010 but same would apply to DPM 2007). The problem arises because during the installation, driver-servicing will enumerate...

I'm currently in Seattle attending TechReady which is Microsoft's internal technical readiness conference, kinda like Tech.Ed is for customers, except this is lots of internal only NDA stuff. This of course means that I can't talk about a lot of the stuff I see. One thing I can talk about that I've...