Well I’ve been having a lot of fun trying to get this installed. For anyone else wondering why the option to install it is greyed out. I’ve discovered that you need the folling installed on the 2008 R2 box:

The most trouble is caused by IIS, and the fact that you need the following bits and pieces in order to make it work.

Hopefully, when you have those installed everything should work ok and it will no longer be greyed out. Don’t forget to put SQL SP3 on afterwards!

My current favourite way of cleaning limescale from a kettle’s innards is to put some lemon juice with a drop of water in it and then flick the kettle on. Don’t let it boil dry! Swirl it around a bit and your kettle should be clean. Or repeat until it is!

In case you’re interested, Maid2Clean now have a website dedicated to recruiting hard working and dedicated cleaners. http://www.nationwide-cleaners.co.uk/ It’s been in development for a while, and we are slowly getting it more noticed within the industry. As I mentioned before, if you do need a reliable domestic cleaner and are in the Southampton area, don’t forget Maid2Clean www.maid2clean.co.uk/southampton I’m sure if you give them a call they can help you out.

Recently I’ve not been getting my googlemail on my Hero. No idea why.. it just stopped working. Turns out that if the “space is low” on your phone, it won’t bother syncing. I uninstalled Angry Birds, shed a tear, and then it started to sync again. It would be nice if there was an error message saying that this would happen if the space gets low. Assuming that was the problem of course. It would have saved me hours of messing around! Live and learn…

I’ve been having a lot of trouble recently with this error. Running an OSD from PXE results in the error 80004005. Nothing specific in the logs other than that error message. I noticed tat if I disabled the install drivers part of the TS, then it worked ok. So clearly one of the drivers was a mess. After a lot of searching I found an article that basically said it was due to the entwork drivers. Now, WinPE includes network drivers, and if this drive is different to the one used by Windows itself, when the driver is updated it will cause a disconnection from the DP. This causes the error. The way around that I have found is to make the advertisement download the content lcoally. This means that it won’t disconnect from the DP, as it’s running locally. Why this is a problem I don’t know. Surely it should jsut try to connect again, but I guess not.

There is an article here on Windows Noob (very good site) http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1688-nic-devices-that-require-a-special-driver-for-winpe-may-cause-a-configmgr-task-sequence-to-fail/ that explains it a bit more