Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

Service Pack 2, the latest service pack for both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, supports new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards, includes all of the updates that have been delivered since SP1, and simplifies deployment, for consumers, developers, and IT professionals.

• Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that supports new kinds of hardware and emerging hardware standards, and includes all updates delivered since SP1. SP2 simplifies administration by enabling IT administrators to deploy and support a single service pack for clients and servers. Please see the Windows Server SP2/Windows Vista SP2 page on TechNet/MSDN for additional details and documentation.
  
  Windows Vista SP2 TechNet
  Windows Server 2008 SP2 TechNet
  
  SP2 is an update to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista that incorporates improvements discovered through automated feedback, as well as updates that have been delivered since SP1. By providing these fixes integrated into a single service pack for both client and server, Microsoft provides a single high-quality update that minimizes deployment and testing complexity for customers.
  
  Service Pack 1 is a prerequisite for installing Service Pack 2. Please make sure that your system is running Service Pack 1 before you install Service Pack 2.
  
  Note: Windows Server 2008 released with Service Pack 1 included.
  
  Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 All Language Standalone for ia64-based systems can be installed on systems with any of 7 supported languages.
  
  

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
Windows6.0-KB948465-IA64.exe SHA1: 1a6cd9ade213bcc056cba3b810e86f0c09c16b51	469.18 MB

• Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems

• 1. To start the download, click the Download button and then do one of the following, or select another language from Change Language and then click Change.
  • Click Run to start the installation immediately.
  • Click Save to copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time.