Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Office 2003 installation on WTS

1. Create administrative installation
2. Use office 2003 resource kit - Custom Installation Wizard to create MST file, outlook profile setting in the end - exchange server name and %username%
3. Install on WTS with transform
4. Use Custom maintanance Wizard to create CMW file with same settings as MST before.
5. Apply this by MaintWiz.exe to the WTS.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Office 2003 sp3 slipstreaming installation

Extract the service pack with:
c:\temp\Office2003Sp3-kb923618-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\temp\OfficeXpSp3 /c
Slipstrem it to administrative installation:
C:\>msiexec /p c:\temp\OfficeXpSp3\mainsp3.msp /a \\rcm-ts01\office2003\pro11.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb
C:\>msiexec /p c:\temp\OfficeXpSp3\owc11sp3.msp /a \\rcm-ts01\office2003\owc11.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb

Monday, November 12, 2007

HP Proliant i8042 error

This a found on HP site:
HP ProLiant Servers - "i8042prt" Error in Eventlog
ISSUE:
One of the following error messages appears in the event log:
Type: Warning Source: i8042prt Event: 32 Description: The keyboard device does not exist or was not detected.
Type: Error Source: i8042prt Event: 26 Description: Exceeded the allowable number of retries (configurable via the registry) on device.
SOLUTION:
When you hot plug a PS/2-style keyboard (or use a switch box) or detach a USB keyboard, in Microsoft Windows 2000, you recieve one of the error messages listed in the Issue section.
Backup your Registry
Open the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters]
Change the value Headless data to 0x1
Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters]
Value: Headless
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1 (Allow Hotplugging) | 0x0 (Hotplugging not allowed)