Microsoft: Vista SP2, Windows Server SP2 betas Thursday

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
December 2, 2008, 5:09 PM

The word of a December 4 public beta release officially came from Microsoft Corp. Vice President Mike Nash at 4:23 pm this afternoon, moments after our story about rumors of a Q1 2009 beta release went live.

"Beginning Thursday Dec. 4th, we will be making the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Beta available to everyone through a Customer Preview Program (CPP)," Nash wrote. "The CPP will launch on TechNet and be available to anyone interested in trying out this service pack."" }-Story (http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Vista_SP2_Windows_Server_SP2_betas_Thursday/1228250901)

[lodore]

Thanks Ron:thumb:
will try it later this week.

[Eliot]

If anyone that installs this.....could you please let me know if its possible to uninstall.

I don't want to reload an old image when the rtm comes out. I can't install it, if I can't remove it, to go rtm when it comes out.



-Eliot

[lodore]

-{ Quote: "If anyone that installs this.....could you please let me know if its possible to uninstall.

I don't want to reload an old image when the rtm comes out. I can't install it, if I can't remove it, to go rtm when it comes out.



-Eliot" }-
Hello,
one of the tests that is reccomended to ensure the beta works properly is to uninstall it. so yes you can uninstall it.

btw technet article is down atm. hopfully it will be online later with the links to try the SP2 beta. currently 12.42 london Time.
will check the link again when i get home

[Eliot]

-{ Quote: "Hello,
one of the tests that is reccomended to ensure the beta works properly is to uninstall it. so yes you can uninstall it." }-

Thanks lodore. As usual, your post helps once again. ;D

[djohn]

I would Image just before running a service pack in beta better safe then sorry.

[Eliot]

I had to replace my motherboard recently and don't know if the imaging apps I have will work with it. I haven't formatted since about may or june of 07 when I got Vista Business. I can't take a chance with not being able to restore an image.

/end off topic :P

[TOMxEU]

Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta and Windows Vista SP2 Beta x86 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DCA54ECC-362A-4B4D-B62B-22780E839A7E&displaylang=en) and Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta and Windows Vista SP2 Beta x64 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=361D0CA3-4B2C-4F1C-8B3E-DE376FDB1DE8&displaylang=en).

I have just installed it in about 30 minutes and I have not noticed any difference in common operations and it still looks like Vista. ;D

[lodore]

btw main page is here (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/dd262148.aspx)

just incase people want to install the beta via windows update.
much smaller. around 60mb compared to 600mb.

[ambient_88]

-{ Quote: "Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta and Windows Vista SP2 Beta x86 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DCA54ECC-362A-4B4D-B62B-22780E839A7E&displaylang=en) and Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta and Windows Vista SP2 Beta x64 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=361D0CA3-4B2C-4F1C-8B3E-DE376FDB1DE8&displaylang=en).

I have just installed it in about 30 minutes and I have not noticed any difference in common operations and it still looks like Vista. ;D" }-
I didn't notice much difference too. Hopefully, the final version will improve the performance a little bit more.