Error installing Office 2010 RTM
The final version of Office 2010 was released to Technet and MSDN subscribers yesterday. When I tried to upgrade my primary Windows 7 virtual machine on my Mac I got the following error complaining that I had the beta version installed:
Failure when injecting Windows 7 drivers into a SCCM 2007 OSD boot image
This problem was driving me nuts for the last week, and is more for my own memory than anything else. At work we got a demo unit from HP of the desktop computer we’re going to be rolling out this summer and I was updating the network drivers in our OS Deployment boot images. The Windows PE environment wasn’t getting the network drivers installed and finally I saw the error message “The selected driver is not applicable to any supported platforms.”
The fix was easy. Microsoft KB 978754 has a hotfix that needs to be installed on the SCCM Site Server, then the server needs to be rebooted. The drivers then installed without a problem. The KB article says the cause of the issue was the driver importing wizard couldn’t recognize drivers signed for only Windows 7.
Good to know.
quick Windows 7 tip
Found a quick workaround for my complaint that you can’t pin items that are on network shares to the Windows 7 taskbar. All you have to do is create a folder for shortcuts to all the items, create a new toolbar on the taskbar using that folder. It shows up like the old Quicklaunch toolbar, and creates a separate icon on the taskbar when the app is launched, but it kinda solves my problem.
Here’s the steps:
- Create a new folder with shortcuts to the applications you can’t pin.
- Right click taskbar and unlock it.
- Right click the taskbar again, select toolbars, then select “New toolbar.”
- Browse to the folder you created, and click “select folder."