{"id":74,"date":"2010-01-11T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:25","slug":"how-to-join-windows-7-client-to-sbs-2008-domain-installing-sbs-update-rollup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"How to Join Windows 7 Client to SBS 2008 Domain (Installing SBS Update Rollup 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adding a Windows 7 client to Small Business Server 2008 network is a trivial task and probably the easiest way to do this is to use http:\/\/connect in Internet Explorer. You might get the infamous error “This computer does not meet the maximum operating system requirements for running client setup”, if the SBS server is not updated with “SBS 2008 Update Rollup 3 – SBS2008-KB969121-x64-ENU.msp”.<\/p>\n

In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial<\/a><\/strong>, we will demonstrate two ways to solve this issue.
\nFirst, we will show you an useful way to find, download and install separate update packages which are normally available only through Microsoft Update. As you can expect, the demonstration will be done with the rollup 3 package – SBS2008-KB969121-x64-ENU.msp.
\nIn addition, we will demonstrate the standard approach – deploying the package through Windows Software Update Services on SBS 2008.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>

Installing SBS 2008 Update Rollup 3 – SBS2008-KB969121-x64-ENU.msp<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adding a Windows 7 client to Small Business Server 2008 network is a trivial task and probably the easiest way to do this is to use http:\/\/connect in Internet Explorer. You might get the infamous error “This computer does not meet the maximum operating system requirements for running client setup”, if the SBS server is not updated with “SBS 2008 Update Rollup 3 – SBS2008-KB969121-x64-ENU.msp”. In this Screencast, we will demonstrate two ways to solve this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[319,321,320,318,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}