Seems like this question has come up a lot this past week at work: How much space should I plan to provision for my new Vista, 2008, Win7, R2 installs? This questions comes up in one of two forms. Either an admin is planning a new deployment and...

We're asked all the time about the size of the WinSXS directory. So much so that my original blog on the subject (located here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why...

I wanted to do a multi-part blog from a high level on how servicing in Windows works. The majority of this will apply to Vista, Win7, 2008 and 2008R2, however there are some things that happen in Win7/R2 that do not happen in Vista/2008. When appropriate...