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Update rollup for the core printing components in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 (SBS2011)

Microsoft have released an update rollup for the core printing components in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 (SBS 2011)

The following issues are resolved by this update rollup:

You can request and obtain the update rollup via Microsoft Knowledgebase article KB 2647753 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2647753

Windows Server 2008 R2 and SBS 2011 RTM or SP1 – You may experience disk I/O performance issues with certain Intel Xeon Processors

You may experience disk I/O performance issues if your server contains an Intel Xeon Westmere-EX (10 Core) processor

This can occur because some of the I/O completion port objects are not cache-aligned. This behavior is what causes poor disk I/O performance.

You can resolve the issue by updating Ntoskrnl.exe and Ntkrnlpa.exe updated versions are available for download from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2545635