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I am frankly irritated by lack of consistency in "service pack" naming standards. On desktop Windows and Office for Windows, it's "Service Pack". On WHS, it's "Power Pack". On Windows Server, it seems to be "Service Pack", although recent "R2" name adds to confusion. Meanwhile, other devices like Zune, Xbox 360, and Windows Mobile use plain old version number (which I actually prefer overall).

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nutmac: there's a bit of a difference; service packs are typically collections of preexisting hotfixes along with a few new features, while WHS power packs seem to focus more on feature updates.

I installed PP3 Beta and know that I need to remove the Beta before installing the release of PP3, however, I have yet to find anything that tells me how to remove the Beta.

Anyone have a link they could forward?

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planetarian, that would make sense if there's service pack for WHS. And Windows 7 compatibility is more of a hotfix than a feature, IMO.

@nutmac:

WHS is based on Windows Server 2003, so I'm guessing that any SP for Server 2003 would also apply to WHS.  Isn't WHS based on Server 2003 SP2 though?  If Microsoft ever releases an SP3 for Server 2003, I'd imagine it would eventually make its way to WHS, but so far, there aren't any additional SP's for WHS.

What is more likely is that the next WHS will just be based on some revision of Server 2008 R2 or the next major Windows Server release, but that's only a best guess at this point.  WHS is a product that doesn't need to have a lot of major updates because what it does, it does very well, and it also includes a lot of extensibility features.  It is an OEM product, meant for hardware integration, so like embedded versions of Windows, it doesn't need to be re-released every time there's a new Windows Server version.

Paul, has Microsoft said that the second service pack will be the last one for Server 2003 or can we expect a third and final one just before mainstream support ends?

@nutmac:  R2's are second releases.  They offer new major features that are "too big" and too valuable for a free service pack (which are usually just big update rollups anyway).  They aren't usually marketed as a "must have" product for existing customers either, but new customers will easily benefit from the improved features.  R2 products are usually only in the server family, so business customers that are buying for their IT infrastructure have an added reason to buy Software Assurance.

I have a question for anybody that can answer it:

Are there any unattend/silent switches for the Bing Maps 3D SETUP.EXE program, and is there a full download of this program instead of just a ~1MB download bootstrapper?

Also, I ran into a problem scripting the Zune software install in an OEM setup if anybody feels peckish.  Seems you can't script it to run in the auditUser pass, but you can launch it with unattend switches directly in audit mode.  Weird, I know.

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