Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 now available

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#77850 23-Feb-2011 10:22

The Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 now available for download.

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#442721 23-Feb-2011 12:37

Any word on when it will be pushed through windows update?

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#442723 23-Feb-2011 12:39

Not to worry, its available now.

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#442801 23-Feb-2011 16:08

Has anyone installed it? I'm waiting for the bleeding edge Geekzone members to give it a test run for I dive in.

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#442804 23-Feb-2011 16:11

I've installed it on Windows 7 last week, downloaded from MSDN. No problems here...

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#442811 23-Feb-2011 16:18

No problems here on either win7 or 2008r2 after a week.

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#442814 23-Feb-2011 16:27

Thanks. Anyone installed from the updated ISOs that include the SP? I've got a server to build tomorrow and I'm considering using that.

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#442815 23-Feb-2011 16:29

lyonrouge: Thanks. Anyone installed from the updated ISOs that include the SP? I've got a server to build tomorrow and I'm considering using that.

Yep. Installed it today on a shiny new dell server. Win 2008 R2 SP1. No issues so far.

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#442915 23-Feb-2011 22:15

i have several servers and win7 machines running the SP1 now, had several running pre-release over last few months.

some of these were installed from from the sp1 iso, others have been freshly installed OS's from the win2k8r2-including-sp1 iso's.

so far, the only problems i have had is with an HP BL460c G1 blade server running Hyper-v role that wont boot when virtualisation tech is enabled. a couple of others are experiencing this also - check this technet thread for details.

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#443023 24-Feb-2011 12:32

I had a strange problem on my laptop where the sleep mode no longer worked after SP1 install. Turned off hybrid sleep and usb active suspend and it seems to be working ok now. Just got to keep an eye on it.

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#443236 25-Feb-2011 00:14

After installing SP1 (today), I'm experiencing a problem where putting my media server to sleep drops the connection to my media extender. Apart from that, everything's running smoothly thus far.

EDIT: Actually not quite - my external USB drives are being powered down too >< Spent a few hours trying almost everything I can think of (haven't looked for a BIOS update yet) and am starting to wonder if uninstalling the service pack will be my best bet.

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#443299 25-Feb-2011 09:30

no problems here, i dont even notice a difference

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#443314 25-Feb-2011 09:48

I'll read the release notes today, if i see no direct advantage I'll probably wait for it to settle (if something is going to go wrong, it will happen to me). However, server installs will get it as they are virtualized so should not encounter hardware anomalies

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#443318 25-Feb-2011 09:57

Dratsab: After installing SP1 (today), I'm experiencing a problem where putting my media server to sleep drops the connection to my media extender. Apart from that, everything's running smoothly thus far.

EDIT: Actually not quite - my external USB drives are being powered down too >< Spent a few hours trying almost everything I can think of (haven't looked for a BIOS update yet) and am starting to wonder if uninstalling the service pack will be my best bet.

Try having a look in the advanced power settings and see that the settings have not been changed.
Change USB active suspend to off and check the settings for sharing media.

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#443967 27-Feb-2011 22:27

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Cheers. Majorly OT but...did all that at the time. Settings had changed - changed them back but can't get sleep to work as it used to. Have set system to just having the screen blank out after 5 mins if no activity.

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#445342 3-Mar-2011 23:17

no difference (apparently hdmi audio is better hence i did the update but i seldom and haven't tested the audio)

on windows update it says 70mb but post operatively i lost 2.5gig approx ... disk cleanup didnt help ... didnt look at system restore garble ... (i notice every gig as using SSD) ... oh well still have 27gig :)

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