Description of Windows Management Framework 3.0 for Windows Server 2008 SP2

For more information about the new management functionality in Windows Management Framework 3.0, go to the "Overview" section of the following Microsoft Download Center webpage:

Update information

Important Before you install Windows Management Framework 3.0, review the "Prerequisites" section. Certain server applications are not yet compatible with Windows Management Framework 3.0.

How to obtain this update

Microsoft Update

This update is available from the Microsoft Update website:

Microsoft Download Center

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the Windows Management Framework 3.0 package now.
For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services

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To install Windows Management Framework 3.0, use the following steps:

1. Download the correct package for your operating system and architecture:
   
   Windows Server 2008 SP2
   • For 64-bit versions: WINDOWS6.0-KB2506146-x64.msu
   • For 32-bit versions: WINDOWS6.0-KB2506146-x86.msu
2. Close all Windows PowerShell windows.
3. Uninstall any other versions of Windows Management Framework 3.0.
4. Run the .msu file that you downloaded.

To uninstall Windows Management Framework 3.0, locate and uninstall the following installed Windows Update:
KB2506146 - for Windows Server 2008 SP2

For more information about this fix for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2506143 Description of Windows Management Framework 3.0 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Prerequisites

Important Windows Management Framework 3.0 is not currently compatible with the following applications:

• Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 SP2. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  2819843 Hyper-V services fails to start after installing Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
• System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  2796086 Configuration Manager Management Points collocated with clients fail after installing Windows Management Framework 3.0 and running Client Health Evaluation
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  2795043 Managing Hyper-V hosts using Virtual Machine Manager fails with Error: 0x8033803b after installing WMF 3.0
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. For more information, go to the following Microsoft website:
  Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010
• SharePoint 2010 Management Shell will not load if Windows Management Framework 3.0 is installed. For more information, go to the following Microsoft website:
  Windows PowerShell 3.0 and SharePoint 2010
  For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  2796733 SharePoint 2010 Management Shell does not load with Windows PowerShell 3.0
• Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Small Business Server 2011. For more information, go to the following Microsoft website:
  Windows Management Framework 3.0 applicability on Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard on and Small Business Server 2011 Standard

To apply this hotfix, you must be running Windows Server 2008 SP2.

For more information about how to obtain a Windows Server 2008 service pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

968849 How to obtain the latest service pack for Windows Server 2008

Additionally, you must install the following software:

• The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 must be installed before you install Windows Management Framework 3.0.
  
  For more information about the .NET Framework 4, go to the following Microsoft website:
  General information about the .NET Framework 4
• Before you install Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Windows Server 2008, you must download and install the version of Windows Management Framework that includes Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0 as a prerequisite. This version of Windows Management Framework can be downloaded at Windows Management Framework (Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0)

Registry information

To use the update in this package, you do not have to make any changes to the registry.

Restart requirement

You must restart the computer after you apply this update.

Hotfix replacement information

This update does not replace a previously released update.

File information

The global version of this update installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The dates and the times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time together with your current daylight saving time (DST) bias. Additionally, the dates and the times may change when you perform certain operations on the files.

Windows Server 2008 file information notes

The files that apply to a specific product, SR_Level (RTM, SPn), and service branch (LDR, GDR) can be identified by examining the file version numbers as shown in the following table.For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates