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

These Microsoft Update Standalone Package (MSU) files install the remote administration tool for Windows Media Services running on Windows Server 2008 R2.

• In Windows Server 2008 R2, the Streaming Media Services role (which includes the latest version of Windows Media Services) and remote administration tools for Windows Media Services are not included in Server Manager. To obtain remote administration tools for Windows Media Services 2008 running on Windows Server 2008 R2, you must run the appropriate Remote Server Administration Tool installer file on a supported Windows 7 operating system.
  
  These Microsoft Update Standalone Package (MSU) files install either 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) versions (as noted in the file names) of the Windows Media Services snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (MMC) on a computer that is running the Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise edition of the Windows 7 operating system.

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
Windows6.1-KB970985-x64.msu SHA1: 63b0e18ebc662e834b169d120d13d6e9dff49714	15.76 MB
Windows6.1-KB970985-x86.msu SHA1: 1608e21e7444f3b68782947752602f3d0eb73d0c	15.44 MB

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  For additional system requirements, see the links below and in the Related Resources section of this page.
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 System Requirements
  • Windows 7

• The download links in the "Files in This Download" section are for 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) editions of Windows 7.
  
  
  • Windows6.1-KB970985-x86.msu - The Windows Media Services Remote Server Administration Tools snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (MMC), to be used on computers that are running supported 32-bit editions of the Windows 7 operating system.
  • Windows6.1-KB970985-x64.msu - The Windows Media Services Remote Server Administration Tools snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (MMC), to be used on computers that are running supported 64-bit editions of the Windows 7 operating system.
  
  To start a download, click a File Name link at the bottom of this page and then do one of the following:
  
  
  
  • Click Run to start the installation immediately
  
  
  
  • Click Save to copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time (required to install the "Server Core" downloads)