Ready to update System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 with SP1

As you may remember Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management leverages SCVMM R2 2008 and now that SP1 has been released you can update your installation with all of the service pack goodness.

Updates you should have already applied

• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1

Download the updated ISO from MSDN for SCVMM R2 2008 which includes SP1, to determine whether you are licensed for this benefit as part of your MSDN subscription please review the following document “Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper”.

On your TFS 2010 SP1 server start the install of SCVMM R2 SP1 and you will be prompted with this confirmation screen

You may receive a warning about the VSTF Background Job Agent Service

Stop the VSTF Background Job Agent service and then in the previous dialog press “Retry”

If all goes well then you should get this screen

Start the VSTF Background Job Agent service

If you have the SCVMM 2008 console installed anywhere else make sure you update it as well.

NOTE:  Don’t forget to update your Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Templates with the appropriate SP1 patches.