Have you ever wanted to have multiple versions of Windows Vista on the same DVD, well now you can. Just follow the directions that you find here.
Multiple Vista Versions on One DVD
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Backup Windows Server 2008 System State using DPM2007
In order for DPM2007 to backup the system state of a Windows Server 2008 machine you have got to install Windows Backup and all of it’s subfeatures. This can easily be done using the following command:
servermanagercmd -install backup -allsubfeatures
If you don’t do this you will get an error message similar to this one:
(ID 30214 Details: Internal error code: 0x809909FB)
Windows Vista Performance and Tuning
Microsoft has released a guide on how to tweak Vista for more performance.
Windows Vista and SP1 focus on delivering greater performance and
overall system responsiveness. By striking a balance between speed and
responsiveness, Windows Vista and SP1 deliver a level of performance
that has the greatest positive impact on the system’s usability.This
guide looks at the following areas of performance improvement:• Making configuration changes that help a computer feel more responsive when you use it.
• Using hardware to boost the actual physical speed of a computer.
• Making configuration changes that help a computer to start faster.
• Making the computer more reliable may help increase performance.
• Monitoring performance occasionally so that you can stop problems before they get too big.
You can download it here.
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is finally RTM:ed. You can download it here.
This brings a range of improvements including:
- Support for home computers that are running Windows Vista x64 editions
- Backup of Home Server shared folders
- Improvements to remote access
- More efficient power consumption
- Improved performance
You can find the complete KB article here.
Install Virtual PC Additions on Windows Server 2008 Core
If you have problems installing Virtual PC Additions on a Windows Server 2008 Core, ensure that you don’t have the sound card enabled.
Otherwise the installation will fail and start a rollback. If you look in the msiexec logfile you will find a 1603 error message.
Once the sound card is deactivated the installation works as it should.
List uninstall strings using powershell
If you find yourself in the need of the uninstall string of an application and you have powershell installed on the machine, you could easily get a complete list of all installed applications and their uninstall string using the following command:
dir HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall | foreach-object {get-itemproperty $_.PSPath} | select-object DisplayName,uninstallstring
The Microsoft CRM command bar could not be loaded
Just installed the online version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Outlook and every time I started Outlook it greeted me with an error message. In the event viewer two red alerts indicated that
“The Microsoft CRM command bar could not be loaded into Microsoft Outlook”
After surfing around for a while I found the following solution by Mr Nick Doelman.
- Open %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook
- Rename the Outcmd.dat file to Outcmd.dat.old
- Reinstall or even just re-config
Don’t know if it will work for you all, but it worked for me 
ADAM and Windows Server 2003 SP2
Just came across a situation where a server had been updated to Windows Server 2003 SP2 and suddenly their ADAM instance would not start anymore. After looking at it for a while I resorted to actually read the release notes for SP2, and there was the answer:
ADAM SP1 must be applied before updating a Windows Server 2003 box with SP2.
The solutions was described as:
- Uninstall SP2
- Install ADAM SP1
- Reinstall SP2
Create a bootable USB drive for Vista or Windows Server 2008
It is possible to install Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 from a bootable USB drive.
To create a bootable usb drive to the following:
Start a command line utility called diskpart. This can be done directly from start/run or from a command prompt. Comments are between {}.
diskpart {This will start diskpart from a command prompt}
list disk {This will list all available disks in the system}
select disk 1 {This will select your usb disk, if it is called 1 in your system}
clean {This will erase ALL information on the currently selected disk}
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign
exit
When you are finished with diskpart, all you need to do is copy all files from your Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 installation media to the usb disk.
xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\
And you are done!
DPM 2007 Error 3013 on Windows Server 2008
I’ve just installed Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 on a Windows Server 2008 RTM, and I ran in to an issue when trying to access the report functionality of DPM.
The error message that you get in DPM is:
3013: DPM could not connect to to SQL Server Reporting Services server because of IIS connectivity issues.
DPM will give you a suggestion on how to fix this, but that didn’t work for me.
If you try to access SQL Reporting Services directly from Internet Explorer, you will get an error message like this:
HTTP Error 403.1 Forbidden
You have attempted to run a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow executables to run.
This error led me to a KB article from Microsoft KB938245 which explains the error.
At the bottom of the article you’ll find this text:
Problem 2
When you run a script to configure the virtual directory for the report server, you receive the following error message:
HTTP Error 403.1 Forbidden
You have attempted to run a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow executables to run.Cause of Problem 2
This problem occurs because of a new permission requirement in IIS 7.0. This permission requirement is for ISAPI extensions that use a wildcard (*) script mapping.
Workaround for Problem 2
To work around this problem, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type inetmgr, and then click OK.
2. In Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, expand Web Sites, expand Default Web Site, and then click the virtual directory for the report server.
3. Under Features View, double-click Handler Mappings.
4. Under Actions, click Edit Handler Permissions.
5. Click to select the Scripts check box, and then click OK.
This does however contain one little error, in step 4 above you should click on Edit Feature Permissions.
That solved the reporting issue for me.