Problems Installing Dell OpenManage Administrator on Dell PowerEdge 2950 running Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit.)

by

Error 1935: An Error occourred during the installation of assembly ‘Microsoft.VC80.CRT,type=”win32″,version”8.0.50727.42″,publickeyToken=”1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”,processorArchitecture=”x86″. Please refer to help and support for more infor……. This appears to be caused by a failure of the .net framework not being installed or is corrupted. Only things I could find say to reinstall or install it. So started with .net 2.0. Download … Read more

Dell Latitude E5420 and the ST Microelectronics Accelerometer Driver Issue

by

Had this rather annoying issue with a Dell Latitude E5420 and trying to image it with Microsoft Windows XP SP3 Professional using Microsoft WDS and MDT 2010 Update 1. Basically using the Dell driver pack the machine would image okay, but then on the mini-setup the computer would freeze saying “please wait…”, even leaving it … Read more

My FTTC Broadband Setup Experience

by

I’ve been with plus.net for my ADSL broadband for a few years, I was working at home more and was finding my current broadband speeds were giving me problems with some of the work I was trying to do. I was getting about 6.5Mbps download and a 0.3Mbps upload. Not too bad but I really … Read more

Silent Install Switches

by

If you are lucky enough to get a software manufacturer to use MSIs for their software your life should be easier when it comes to packaging and installing software, however sometimes you end up with just an .exe installer here’s some switches i’ve found for silent or quiet installers. setup.exe /s setup.exe /silent setup.exe /sms … Read more

Copying from PST into Outlook 2010 creates items with “Copy:” prefixed on them

by

What a pain to have this happen, however once you’ve imported from PST you can run the following script from within Outlook 2010. In this example it changes the items in the “Calendar” folder under Outlook. From the Outlook 2010 client do this: Press Alt+F11 which will open the VBA window.  In the left pane, … Read more

SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint 2007 Broken by Windows Updates

by

Heres a nasty little problem, we have a SharePoint farm that consists of 4 servers, two Web Front Ends, and application server and a SQL server. This is Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Enterprise SP2 running on Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit), all was well until a recent automatic update was installed which broke the application … Read more

Disabling the Interactive Logon Message

by

Sometimes the interactive logon message that you can apply to machines via GPO can get in the way. But you may not want to disable it for everyone just an OU, in which case configure this against a low down OU (i.e. one nearest the computer object) that will get precedence. GPO Computer Configuration Policies … Read more