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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...