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Error installing Office 2010 RTM

Jeremy — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:40:32 +0000

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:

This was odd because this VM was primarily used for my school coursework and had Office 2007 installed, but I never tried 2010 on it. I had opened some documents that were created in 2010, but that was it. I searched my installed programs and updates and found nothing with the number 2010. Reading through the Technet forums, I saw other people with similar errors. One suggestion solved the problem for me. Running the MSI Cleanup Utility, I discovered that there were some 2010 bits installed.

As you can see from the image, there are two MUI packs from Office 2010 installed. How they got there, I’m not sure, but I suspect it might be due to opening the documents that originated in 2010 on another computer. I removed the two 2010 items with the cleanup utility and Office 2010 installed without any other problems. Hopefully this posts helps other people running into this problem.

Failure when injecting Windows 7 drivers into a SCCM 2007 OSD boot image

Jeremy — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:30:00 +0000

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

Jeremy — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:16:55 +0000

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."