Now that we’ve had the service pack available for a couple of weeks, I wanted to post a quick note for those of you who have not yet rolled out the service pack to your environment for things you can do before installing Service Pack 1 that might alleviate some headaches during your installation...

You may receive the following error when installing Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2: 0xC0000022 (STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) This can be due to McAfee Host Intrusion Protection being installed on the system. To workaround this problem, disable the following option in McAfee: Startup IPS...

During the installation of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7/2008 R2 you might encounter the following error: 0x800f0904 - CBS_E_MORE_THAN_ONE_ACTIVE_EDITION This can be due to the release candidate failing to uninstall properly. The \Windows\Logs\CBS.log will show the following: 2011-02-23 17:25...

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 may fail to install properly on systems which have had the Driver Sweeper utility from Phyxion run against the Windows image. You could possibly encounter errors 0x800f0a13 or 0x800f0826 in your \Windows\Logs\CBS.log file that is similar to the following: 2011-02-23 10:47...

When installing Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 installations, you may enounter the following error code in the \Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log: 0x8004a029 The log snippet will look similar to the following: 2011-02-21 18:56:58, Error CSI 000006e1 (F) Done with generic command 60 (0x0000003c); CreateProcess...

You might encounter an issue during the installation of SP1 for Win7/R2 where the installer exits with: 0x800f0a12 This is due to the automount policy for your machine being set to disable. We block the service pack installation in these cases because we need to be able to write information to the...