Best of MSDN Blogs–How to slipstream SQL Server 2008 R2 and Service Pack 1

Here’s a blog to check out – how to slipstream SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that came out yesterday. Follow these steps and you will have a SQL Server 2008 R2 folder already upgraded to service pack one, with no need to do a separate install.  Speaking of, I wonder why they just don’t offer this as a download on MSDN for SQL Server? Someone surely wouldn’t want to run SQL 2005 out of the box, given that we’ve had, what, half a dozen service packs for that version? You know that you can get some downloads, such as Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with service pack 1 already included:

Anyway, this is a good post. Think I’ll give it a shot now.

Lee

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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/petersad/archive/2011/07/13/how-to-slipstream-sql-server-2008-r2-and-a-sql-server-2008-r2-service-pack-1-sp1.aspx