Пакет обновлений Service Pack 1 для Windows 7, увидевшей свет 22 октября, может быть выпущен осенью следующего года.

По сведениям сайта Wzor, работа над Windows 7 SP1 ведется с сентября. Более того, предварительные версии SP1 включались в состав тестовых сборок Windows 7 еще до обретения системой статуса RTM (Release to Manufacturing) — для проверки механизмов интеграции обновлений.

Бета-версия для разработчиков предположительно появится в конце декабря 2009 года. Публичная бета-версия, по сведениям  Wzor.net, появится в первой декаде января 2010 года. Кроме бета-версий Microsoft подготовит два релиз-кандидата.

Производители компьютеров получат Windows 7 SP1 летом 2010 года, в то время как до конечных потребителей он доберется только осенью.

Стоит отметить, что в этот раз Microsoft торопится с выпуском обновления. Между релизом Windows Vista и выходом первого Service Pack к ней прошло больше года. В том пакете содержалось около 300 исправлений к первоначальной версии Vista.

Tomorrow Windows 7, the replacement for the much maligned Windows Vista will be released to the general public. It is expected to wash away the public’s very negative view of Windows Vista, which was plagued early on with slow performance, driver issues and buggy hardware. Windows XP which was released 8 years ago in 2001 continues to be the most widely used version of Windows at over 65% of all computers in use. XP has remained popular due to the early reviews of Vista.

Vista has, to give it it’s credit, gotten much better with the advent of Service Packs 1 & 2. However, performance remains below XP on similar and even at times, better hardware. Driver issues still plague Vista systems for legacy software and hardware. Windows 7 is receiving much better reviews and certain versions, IE Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate all include Windows XP Mode. XP Mode is a virtualized client that runs inside of 7 with a licensed version of XP Pro SP3. This is for professionals who rely on legacy applications that won’t run under the new Windows 7 core. New tech allows apps and software that runs inside XP Mode to integrate seamlessly with 7.

Windows 7 also has a notable feel of increased performance over it’s bloated and buggy predecessor. I personally have used both the Ultimate Release Client as both a virtualized machine and as my main OS and it has been excellent, booting and shutting down noticeably faster than Vista.

Now here is where the bad things come in. I’ll give my take on what I don’t like in Windows 7. First off the taskbar. Actually this falls in the so-so category. I like the jump lists and ability to pin things to the taskbar. But I don’t like the appearance and the larger buttons. To be fair, one can shrink them to Vista size, but it takes getting used to the new look and feel of them. The second thing I don’t like is the positioning of the ’show desktop’ button. When you are used to the button being in one place since Windows 98, it is disconcerting to find it all the way on the other side of the screen. Lastly, the Windows Media Player 12 is somewhat of a nuisance. While it is a good thing that it supports more codecs than ever in the past, I actually like the ability to do a lot with my media right from the library tab.

Aside from that, Windows 7 is all things that Vista should have been. While I will miss Vista’s quirky tools like Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Windows Mail and Meeting Space, I will be upgrading my system to Windows 7 in the weeks after tomorrow. Windows 7 is a large improvement in performance, aesthetics and overall just allowing me to do what I need to do without the incessant lockups and UAC prompts.

Gestern war einer der Tage, bei denen man sich denkt: „Mein Leben muss sich gerade wieder richtig lustig vorkommen!“

Ich hatte Freitag Service Pack 1 für Vista installiert, da ich eine bestimmte Software für den Semesterplaner brauchte, welche das SP1 brauchte. Ich hab also gegen das „Never-Touch-a-running-system“-Gesetz verstoßen. Nach der dreistündigen Installationssession lief eigentlich alles recht einwandfrei. Die benötigte Software brauchte ich ca. 30 Sekunden, um das was ich machen wollte mit meiner bereits vorhandenen Software 8mal besser zu machen.

Das war Freitag.

Gestern wollte ich dann weiter für den Semesterplaner (mein aktuelles AIESEC Projekt) arbeiten. Doch als ich mir die entsprechenden Texte aus dem ER-Teamaccount (Mailaccount meines AIESEC-Teams) runterladen wollte, zickte das Wlan irgendwie rum.

Aus mir (und Vista) unbekannten Gründen konnte ich keine Verbindung zum heimeligen Netzwerk herstellen. Also so wirklich gar keine… nix… gar nix klappte. Was ziemlich scheiße ist, da viele meiner nötigen Daten nur über das Internet zugänglich sind.

Und um effektiv arbeiten zu können musste ich dann ins Exil ziehen. Oder besser… zu meiner Freundin. Dort durfte ich mir dann, via !KABEL! Internet ausleihen! Kabel! Kennt ihr das noch? Das sind diese langen, meist grauen, runden Dinger die man irgendwo in seinen PC/Laptop reinstecken muss, um ins Internet zu kommen! Die immer wieder rausrutschen, wodurch man alle naselang die Verbindung verliert…

Wie hat man das eigentlich vor dem Wlan überleben können? Naja…

Ich hab jetzt erstmal das was ich heute machen konnte fertig. Es fehlen noch 2-3 Texte, die aber erst noch geschrieben werden müssen. Damit hab ich ja nix am Hut.

Ich werde morgen den Tag wahrscheinlich in der Uni verbringen… besser gesagt im AIESEC Büro, wo ich den letzten Feinschliff an den Planer legen werde und ein paar Vermieter anrufe um mir ein paar Wohnungen anzuschauen.

Naja. Ich genieße jetzt den Tee, den mir meine bessere Hälfte gemacht hat und chille noch ein bissel…

Übrigens:a

Hier isset schön…

Instalación Service Pack 1 SQL Server Express 2008

Ya tenemos el Sql Server 2008 instalado…¿y ahora que? Pues hay que actualizarlo y realizar unas pequeñas configuraciones y ajustes para darle una funcionalidad total. Pero… ¿Qué es un Service Pack? Un Service Pack es un conjunto de actualizaciones que corrigen y mejoran aplicaciones o sistemas operativos.

Ya tenemos los archivos necesarios descargados del tema anterior así que vamos directos a la instalación.

1- Ejecutamos el archivo SQLServer2008SP1-KB968369-x86-ESN.exe y la primera pantalla que nos aparece es la de comprobación de requisitos previos. Pulsamos siguiente.

Sql Server 2008 Service Pack 1

2- La segunda pantalla que nos aparece es la de el contrato de licencia que debe ser aceptado para continuar instalando el producto. Pulsamos siguiente.

Contrato Licencia SP1

3- Ahora vamos a seleccionar las características que van a ser actualizadas, seleccionamos seleccionar todo y pulsamos siguiente.

Características del SP1

4- El asistente comenzará a comprobar los archivos en uso del SQL Server y cuando finalice pulsaremos siguiente.

Comprobar archivos SP1

5- Sólo nos queda pulsar el botón de actualizar y esperar a que finalice la instalación.

Actualizando Sql Server 2008

6- La actualización ha finalizado con éxito. Pulsamos siguiente y cerrar.

Actualización completada

Con esto ya ha quedado listo el SQL Server Express 2008 para su uso. Ahora sólo faltarían unas pequeñas configuraciones para poder usarlo en red y no tener problemas. Estas configuraciones las veremos en la siguiente entrega.

Today I finally ditched the old Windows XP and moved to the fresh new Windows Vista. But, for my horror, two Service Packs were released for Vista. And as I quickly realized, there is no  way (Technically and recommended by Microsoft) of slipstreaming Any of the Service Packs. I saw a way of slipstreaming SP1, however I haven’t seen one for SP2.

The annoying fact that Service Pack 2 (for Windows Vista) requires Service Pack 1 to be present on the machine, made me upset a little bit about Vista: None of the Previous Windows OSs, including Windows XP, needed any Service Pack to be present. Maybe it’s something about Vista’s improved NT-Kernel, but that’s a matter for another post.

So, here comes the user tips for installing Service Packs on Windows Vista:

1. Don’t install both SPs one after another, because of tip No’2.
2. After SP1 installation, you should restart your computer several times to see if SP1 installation went fine, and it does not slow down Vista, or anything else that you are not satisfied with. If everything’s good, you will probably want to clean the old files that were replaced by the SP1 installation, to save some Disk Space*. To do so, open the Command Prompt, and type “vsp1cln”. Press ‘y’ when prompted.
3. Install SP2
4. After SP2 installation, do the same thing that we did for SP1: restart the computer a few, check everything’s OK. After that, you can once again clean old files an gain some Disk Space**, by typing “compcln” at the Command Prompt, and pressing ‘y’ when prompted to.

    

So, i’m done. If you have anything to say or some more tips to offer, make sure to comment down the post.

* By doing so, you are “Sticking” SP1 to the Vista Installation, meaning, you cannot remove SP1 in the future.
** So does in here, you are once again “Sticiking” SP2, so removing it in the future will not be an option.

Download Windows 7 build 7227 Service Pack 1

via Windows 7 Bucharest and Karol

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Windows 7 SP1 corriendo en la Build 7138

Asi es, tal y como leen, la gente de Microsoft en este momento esta realizando el mismísimo Service Pack 1 para el tan “alabado” en estos días Windows 7.

El sitio ruso Wzor afirma esto, y además que la gente trabajando en este proyecto no es la misma que hoy por hoy esta realizando los toques finales al Windows 7, sino la rama de la compañía winmain_win7ids_sp. Nótese, que la rama que se encarga de realizar el sistema operativo base es llamada winmain.

Menciona también (y las mismas imagenes que les dejare lo confirman), que las primeras pruebas de integración fueron hechas en base a la build 7138, y fue compilado el pasado 23 de mayo a las 22pm (7138.winmain_win7ids_sp.090523-2200) y que este service pack ya se esta realizando tanto para la linea cliente (x86 y x64) como la de servidor (x64).

A continuacion los links a las capturas en sus diferentes versiones:

Windows 7 Build 7138 Cliente x86 con SP1:

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Windows 7 Build 7138 Cliente x64 con SP1:

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Windows 7 Build 7138 Server x64 con SP1:

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Aun no se tiene novedades o noticias de el porque tan temprano se esta realizando este parche.

Ante cualquier novedad, los mantendré al tanto

Saludos!

The slipstream process of Office 2007 is a simple two step process:

1. Extract the SP1 file
2. Copy the MSP files to your install share

Download Office 2007 SP1 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. Save the file on the root of your D:\ drive. Create a folder called D:\Office2007MSP\.

Extract the SP1 file with the following command:
D:\office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:D:\Office2007SP1MSP

Open the folder D:\OfficeSP1MSP

Copy all the *.msp files to the Updates folder on your install share.

If you run Setup.exe the setup wizard will install Office 2007 SP1.

Source: http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t109038.html

Türkçe Vista Service Pack 1′i indirin

Vista SP1 çıktı çıkacak derken, sonunda indirilmeye sunuldu. 32bit, 64bit ve DVD ISO linkleri burada

Dün yapmış olduğumuz haberde Windows Vista SP1 Türkçe’nin üreticilere gönderildiğini belirtmiştik. Bugün ise Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Türkçe dahil olmak üzere 39 diğer dilde herkese sunuldu. Service Pack 1′i indirmeden önce Vista’nızın 32 bit mi, 64 bit mi olduğunu kontrol edin, keza en düşük download boyutu 500 mb’ın üstünde.

Eğer Windows Vista SP1 indirme boyutu size yüksek geliyorsa, Windows Update ile gelecek güncellemeyi bekleyebilirsiniz. Eğer zaten bugüne kadar tüm Vista güncellemelerini yaptıysanız, download boyutunuz 100 mb’ın altına düşebilir.
Download için;

***Windows Vista SP1 32-bit Türkçe (544 MB)

***Windows Vista SP1 64-bit Türkçe (873 MB)

***Windows Vista SP1 DVD ISO (32 – 64 bit) (1.38 GB)

March 27, 2009

After getting SP1 installed, I went back to load up Farcry 2. Unfortunately Steam cannot login anymore. The firewall rules have been erased for the steam client, and yet when I run steam it does not ask me to open ports or let the application through. It is simply rejecting it.

Cannot find any support for this one yet.

[installing sp1 breaks steam login/firewall rules.]

Does Windows Vista really suck?

Install issues:
installer boots from cd, comes up with Vista background, no window. After giving up (waiting 45 minutes),
I clicked CTRL-ALT-DEL and was rewarded with a window asking me to click “next”.

Once booted: Ran windows update until I was told there were no important updates to install.
Installed Steam, Farcry 2 -
It told me I should have SP1 installed. I ran windows update, and it continued to say “there are no important updates to install”.

Searched web for info on installing SP1, foudn site telling me to run windows update.

Ran windows update again, this time it found an update! Installed it, and was told “there are important updates” to install.

Check if I have Sp1 installed by right clicking on computer, and clicking properties.

Confirmed I do not have SP1.

Ran windows update again.

Told there are no updates.

Check updates again.

Found 1 update.   <— WTF? After installing an update, it can’t find any more updates! Need to exit updater, go back in, and click find updates.

Como extra podemos notar que Windows 7 RC1 se instala en 10 minutos.

>Descripción: Paquete de traducción parcial para Windows 7 Ultimate (Build 7048) x86

>Links de descarga:

• Vía Megaupload
• Vía Rapidshare
• Vía GigaSize

>Detalles:

• Nombre: Multilingual User Interface Pack
• Compatibilidad: Windows 7 Ultimate (Build 7048)
• Arquitectura: x86
• Editor: Microsoft Corporation
• Fecha de Salida: Hoy
• Provisto por: IntercambiosVirtuales.org

Microsoft has fulfilled its promise of a quick delivery of a Release Candidate for SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server. Unfortunately, enterprises will see few worthwhile upgrades. There are some hardware and wireless improvements, but users and administrators will see the most beneficial upgrades to the search capabilities.

Microsoft officials March 5 followed through on their February promise to quickly deliver a Release Candidate for Service Pack 2 for both Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server.

Unlike Service Pack 1 for Vista, which delivered such highly tangible benefits to the end user as streamlined UAC controls and faster file transfer speeds, eWEEK Labs’ preliminary explorations reveal Service Pack 2 delivers few significant updates to Vista users or administrators.

I installed Service Pack 2 on a pair of Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 x86 clients—one on a physical machine (a Dell XPS m1330) and a second on a VMware Workstation virtual instance. I found installation of the Five Language Standalone executable took between 21 and 27 minutes on my clean instances. When fully installed, I found that SP2 used about 1 GB of hard drive space, although Microsoft recommends clients targeted for upgrade have a minimum of 7 GB of free hard drive space (13 GB for 64-bit installations) for the update to complete.

To recover some of the hard drive space used by the service pack, Microsoft integrated the executable compcln.exe, which removes archived versions of operating system files replaced by SP2.  In my tests, I was able to recover about 330 MB of space by running the command. However, I found that running compcln.exe removed my ability to uninstall the service pack. As such, administrators should only run the command on systems they are sure won’t need to be restored to a previous state.

Service Pack 2 is not a cumulative update, so administrators will need to ensure that clients targeted for upgrade to SP2 are already running Service Pack 1. Hotfix KB955430, a servicing stack that its documentation says “handles installation and removal of software updates, language packs, and optional windows features,” must be installed prior to SP2 deployment. The standalone executable includes this update as part of the installation, but administrators planning to deploy SP2 via WSUS will need to pre-deploy this hotfix.

Along with the usual collection of already-released security and functionality hotfixes included in the service pack, Microsoft also delivers a modest set of hardware enhancements—few of which will likely have much importance for those few enterprise administrators with Vista in their network. Among these improvements brought by SP2, Microsoft now claims support for VIA 64-bit processors and has integrated Blu-Ray recording into the operating system.

On the wireless side of things, Microsoft baked in support for Bluetooth 2.1 and delivered some incremental improvements to the operating system’s integrated wireless LAN capabilities. Specifically, Service Pack 2 promises faster Wi-Fi reconnections when returning the OS from a sleep state, and the integration of Windows Connect Now capabilities into Vista. Since WCN is marketed towards easier deployment of wireless routers and networks, the delivery of this latter feature should have zero impact on enterprise WLANs.

However, administrators may find benefits from SP2’s update to Vista’s built-in desktop search capabilities. While previous iterations of Windows Vista came with Windows Search 3.0, SP2 automatically upgrades to Windows Search 4.0. Released as a standalone upgrade about a year ago, Windows Search 4.0 promises improved stability and speed of the indexer, as well as faster sorting and grouping in Windows Explorer.

Administrators should also find Windows Search 4.0 significantly enhances the ability to control search and indexing capabilities via Group Policy. Windows Search 4.0 delivers 30 group policy controls, up from the nine controls delivered with previous iterations. Among the new controls are the ability to throttle indexing of Exchange stores, prevent indexing of certain file extensions, or to point clients to intranet search services.

Administrators should also find Service Pack 2 delivers more group policy controls over power management functions.

Microsoft has yet to announce a specific time frame for release of the gold code of the service pack.

Windows Vista iata ca primeste primul service pack major. Acest Service Pack aduce spre bucuria tuturor mai multa stabilitate si desigur un plus de securitate.

Prezentare generală:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) RC trebuie folosit pt.un PC pe care ruleaza Windows Vista RTM to Windows Vista SP1.
Acest "standalone package" instaleaza SP1 precum si "pre-requisite packages"
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Versiunea: 936330 
Windows Vista iata ca primeste primul service pack major.
Acest Service Pack aduce spre bucuria tuturor mai multa stabilitate si desigur un plus de securitate.
Deasemenea s-a lucrat mult la compatibilitatea pentru "old programs".Deci acum vom avea mai putine necazuri cand programe mai vechi sunt rulate pe mult ravnitul WINDOWS VISTA.
Cu acest service Pack, sistemele pe 32bit cu Windows Vista vor putea sa dea roadele depline cand avem instalati 4GB RAM.
Articole din Baza de cunoştinţe: KB936330 
Data publicării: 14.12.2007 
Limbă: Română 
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Atentie ! trebuie sa cititi Informaţii suplimentare:
Uninstall Instructions pentru Windows Vista SP1 RC:
Windows Vista SP1 RC nu suporta "build-to-build upgrades".
Daca instalati acest build pe sistemul dumneavoastra, trebuie sa-l dezinstalati inainte sa treceti la versiunea finala Vista SP1 RTM. 
Prerequisite packages (KB935509, KB937287 and KB938371) pentru Window Vista SP1 sunt permanente si uninstall-ul acestor pachete este dezactivat din design.
Pe parcursul instalarii Windows Vista SP1 RC, installer-ul determina daca aveti/nu aveti nevoie de prerequisite packages si updateaza automat sistemul.
Pentru a dezinstala Windows Vista SP1 RC trebuie sa urmati acesti pasi:
-Click pe the Start Menu si mergeti la Control Panel’
-Double click pe Programs and Features
-In stanga la menu, selectati View Installed Updates
-Sub lista Microsoft Windows, selectati Service Pack for Windows (KB936330)
-On the top menu, click pe Uninstall.

Avantajele Windows-ului cumparat cu licenta sunt vizibile acum mai mult ca niciodata.Ne bucuram astfel de Service Pack 1 si probleme care pana nu demult ne faceau zile negre dispar ca prin minune.
Inca odata specialistii de la Microsoft ne demonstreaza ca totul se poate.Este nevoie doar de putin timp ca lucrurile sa mearga bine si noi sa fim multumiti.

Download the Stand-Alone Update: x64 | x86

Many of you have probably encountered the problem where a workflow triggers itself several times because the code carries out one or more Item.Update() commands. This can be extremely annoying because running extra workflows can be taxing on the server – even if you make sure that the extra workflows don’t make any changes to the element.

Then, you may have discovered Item.SystemUpdate() which in theory should rid the list of the all the extra instances of workflows because it doesn’t trigger an update event and thus flies under the radar of the workflow engine.

This seemed to work just fine for a while. Lately, however, it seems that SystemUpdate() has startet triggering events just like a normal Update().

Post Service Pack 1?

I found that many of my workflows now started behaving differently, i.e. they began triggering multiple instances of workflows.

It took me a while to realise that it probably was a “bug fix” in SharePoint SP1 that was causing the problem.

A glance at the documentation for SystemUpdate() reveals that events are indeed triggered:

There is no mention of SP1 but I assume that this was when the changes were made.

Solution

This is bad news for many developers but obviously a design decision at Microsoft so things probably won’t be changed back to the way they were.

From now on you have to make sure that your workflows only make changes to elements when needed. I.e. you need to only use Update() and SystemUpdate() when they are really needed and thereby minimise the number of redundant workflow cycles.

Alternatively, you could look into programming your own event handlers to obtain more granular control of when events are triggered. I may explore this subject in a future post.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is an update to Windows Vista that addresses key feedback from our customers. SP1 addresses specific reliability and performance issues, supports new types of hardware, and adds support for several emerging standards.

Download and other details  here