SP1 RC for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft just announced the release of the Service Pack 1 release candidate for Windows 7 and W2008 R2.  This will be the only RC release before the eventual RTM release.  You can download it now.  The download page still talks about the beta release.  I guess that’ll get updated pretty quickly?

I haven’t seen any details on additional changes since the beta.  I know that MS demonstrated an additional Hyper-V feature at TechEd NA 2010 that was not in the beta.  This allowed Hyper-V admins to use PowerShell to configure virtual switches to filter out traffic from VMs if they used a non-assigned IP address – useful where you don’t trust the delegated admins of those VMs who are logged into them with admin rights (and could change the IPs to try do a spoof attack).

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