Windows 7/2008 R2 SP1 has now been released, the pre-requisite update is currently available via Windowsupdate and this must be installed before SP1 can be installed.

The RTM SP1 has a build version number of. 7601.17514.101119-1850

The actual update is not yet available to download from public MS servers, but I expect it to be next week. Softpedia already has it for download if you want to download it before its released to the MS public servers.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Signatures-Updates/Windows-7-Service-Pack-1.shtml

http://www.msfn.org/index.html/_/software/microsoft-confirms-windows-7-sp1-rtm-released-to-oe-r193

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Thanks for the heads up.

Just installing the required update to get it. The update you need for it btw is (KB976902).

Phil

Thanks for the heads up.

Just installing the required update to get it. The update you need for it btw is (KB976902).

Phil

Thanks for reminding me it was out.

Went fine for me -

SP1 by MGbosshogg, on Flickr

Cheers for the heads up Manny.

Thanks for the heads up, it's bound to kill at least one of our servers at work.

Thanks for the heads up, it's bound to kill at least one of our servers at work.

You've moved to it in a big way before SP1 have you? Interesting.

Anyone else in this position commercially, or is it just me being mega cautious?

I've only just managed to get our support pc's upgraded to Win7, the last batch of 2008 servers were sent back to the build team as the builds were too unstable and IMO not fit for purpose. Maybe the new releases will help, it will probably be another 6-12 months before we get our 1st 2008 servers that will be fit for purpose and go into a Live environment.

You've moved to it in a big way before SP1 have you? Interesting.

Anyone else in this position commercially, or is it just me being mega cautious?

We've got three servers running 2008 R2. I may in the near future have 1 or 2 windows 7 laptops but I need to have a look at whether some of the more oddball software we have will even run on it. At the moment all the desktops and laptops are still running XP.

Quite. That's the main reason we're still running 99% of the desktops/laptops on XP SP3 still. Oddball in-house software - same goes for using IE7!

We've been running Server 2008 since last summer though, on that side of things. That was only because the removal of support for Server 2000 though.

I've only just managed to get our support pc's upgraded to Win7, the last batch of 2008 servers were sent back to the build team as the builds were too unstable and IMO not fit for purpose. Maybe the new releases will help, it will probably be another 6-12 months before we get our 1st 2008 servers that will be fit for purpose and go into a Live environment.

We've been using 2008 R2 Server 64bit edition in our live production environment for quiet some time now and have no problems, we have about 50 servers now and growing.

We've been using 2008 R2 Server 64bit edition in our live production environment for quiet some time now and have no problems, we have about 50 servers now and growing.

This..

All new servers are 2008R2 x64 for us. Generally has been quite clean and easy experience, bar a few funnys with san storage and multipathing

and we are in the middle of a big XenAPP refresh which will see our citrix farm being upgraded too.

Desktops are another issue though... still running XP as they were all rolled out originally with no base image or group policy.

our Devs are running Vista x64 as they want oodles of ram, and a bunch of us are running 7x64 for managing exchange 2010.

EDIT: apparently SP1 is quite a big deal for the server OS... wonder what the major changes are

We are using XP clients as well, although we are now deploying Windows 7 Pro 32bit. Cant go 64bit as some applications dont work and the PC's only have 2GB of ram so there is no point.

Aparentlly SP1 for 2008R2 introduces some nice new features, such as 3D acceleration for RDP/RDS sessions meaning you can use Aero with RDP. There are also tweaks to HyperV, allowing VMs to dynamically use ram, a bit like VMware have been doing for ages.