I've noticed we've had a couple of calls lately with customers having issues getting SP2 installed for Windows Server 2008. Typically the error seen is: "You need to install Windows Server Service Pack 1 before continuing. After you install Windows...

Very cool news last night that we officially RTM'd with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. For information specific to when builds will be available, please see the official team blogs for the Windows team. Client: http://windowsteamblog.com/ Server...

One of the other cool new logs, as it relates to servicing, is the new sessions.xml log. Located in the \Windows\servicing\sessions directory, its a log of all of the different transactions that happen on the machine from a servicing perspective. A small...

First, I appreciate all of you who actually take the time to read my blog. Secondly, my last post generated some interesting comments that I thought would make a pretty cool post in itself, so I thought I would answer some of them here. 1. In general...

Since I spoke about DISM in the last post, I wanted to highlight my personal favorite new DISM command. DISM.exe /Image:C:\test\offline /Cleanup-Image /RevertPendingActions Where this is handy is in situations where you have installed an update...

Because I wanted to keep a lot of these blog posts relevant to servicing the operating system, I thought I would talk a little about the changes to how we service the operating system in Windows 7. The first concept I wanted to cover was the idea of...

There are always requests here at Microsoft for reducing the footprint that the component store takes up (\Windows\winsxs). Applying a service pack to Windows Vista or Windows 2008 will increase the size of the store even more to allow for the staging...