Microsoft released the beta of the upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to Technet and MSDN subscribers a few days ago with plans to release the service pack to the public later on. It did not take long before Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 made their way on various P2P networks.
There is however no need anymore to fire up your P2P application as you can download both service packs directly and officially from Microsoft. Two ways are provided by Microsoft. The first is a direct download of both service packs which is definitely the easier and probably also the faster method to download the service packs.
The second method would be to download a small script that adds an entry to the Windows Registry upon execution which will make the service packs available in Windows Update.
Please note that the service packs are only available in the languages English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese.
It is also important to note that this is still a beta version of the upcoming service pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and as such should not be installed on computer systems that you need to work with. The release is intended to be tested by a larger audience.The beta of the service pack will expire in May 2009.
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Beta 2 released December 16th with the following to remove the Beta 1 update . . . which never worked for me to begin with . . . the Beta 2 Update does.
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateVistaSP2 /f
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateVistaSP2 /v Beta2 /t REG_SZ /d DCA54ECC-362A-4B4D-B62B-22780E839A7E /f
Run Microsoft/Windows Update to see and Download