{"id":2503,"date":"2009-04-30T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2009\/04\/30\/windows-server-2008-service-pack-2-has-reached-rtm\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:34:55","slug":"windows-server-2008-service-pack-2-has-reached-rtm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/windows-server-2008-service-pack-2-has-reached-rtm\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2008 Service pack 2 has reached rtm!"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Wednesday April 29th<\/sup>, the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was achieved! Windows Server 2008 has seen great success and SP2 will make it that much better! SP2 includes all updates delivered since the release of Windows Server 2008, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards.<\/p>\n IT Professionals will see numerous benefits from SP2, the key benefits are below:<\/p>\n o SP2 provides the Hyper-V virtualization environment as a fully integrated feature of Windows Server 2008, including one virtual instance Windows Server 2008 Standard, four free instances with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and an unlimited number of free instances with Windows Server 2008 Datacenter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n o SP2 improves backwards compatibility for Terminal server license keys<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n o SP2 includes additional power profile improvements over Windows Server 2008 RTM<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Last, but certainly not least, there is a single service pack that applies to both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista for x86 and x64 versions. Now IT Professionals only have to deploy, manage, and support one package for both client and server!<\/p>\n\n
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