May 2009 Entries

So I just setup mobile blogging with Blogger, pretty neat.

I have had Windows 7 RC on my Lenovo for over 2 weeks now, and must say I am still happy and impressed.

Things to note: (driver downloads self extract to the hard drive, then run setup, or other available exe)

System Interface drivers:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67228

HotKey Driver: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-68000

Wireless Wan card: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-67955#APPLYCOUNTRY
(Run MC87xx.msi from the extracted location)

AT&T Connection manager: http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/solutions/wireless-laptop/software.jsp#download

Audio Driver: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-67821

After a reboot, using the keyboard mute/volume keys things seem to be working well.

I read some issues with Windows 7 and audio, but I was able to install drivers above and get things going.

I decided to go ahead and update my dev VM, since the next client will have everything updated, I thought it would be important to also have things up to date.

WSS SP 2 installed without a problem, but of course Office Servers Service Pack 2 had issues.

The base install just said, Installation Failed.

Looking at the logs, "The extraction of the files failed" - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943589

Still not very helpful.  MSDN/Technet and MS Support sites mentioned that this is due to hard drive space.  In my case I have 16GB free still on my VM drive, but the installation still fails.

Solution?  Just extract the files as if you were going to do a slipstream install.

using cmd.exe to run the exe with the switch /extract will cause the exe to extract the files to a location for you.  Now you can add these to the folder of you moss install for slipstream install to include SP2, or as in my case, run the sp2 packages as needed.  Some of them are not installed depending on your system (i.e. what services you are running). –Update, after I unpacked the files, the install worked.

Hope that helps.

April 2009 – Microsoft released the Service Packs for WSS and MOSS, but also several other MS Office products.

You can see the list here

This includes SharePoint Designer, Office Products, Project, MOSS, WSS, etc.

So I was running Windows 7 on my lenovo laptop, and I was having some issues, especially with IE8. Constantly crashing IE and causing the video drivers to restart.

The first thing was that it was an upgrade from vista. After re-installing clean, things seemed okay for a while, then the problems started to show up again after a day or so.

Now things have been running smoothly for 3-4 days.

Office installed, visual studio, etc.

If you have not had a chance to use it, you should really try it out.

I have been running Vista for a long time, and find it hard to go back to XP... will not be long before I say the same for vista!