Do not install the Windows feature; 'Desktop Experience' on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. Kthanksbye!

After a pretty stressful week at work and clocking up 5 hours of overtime, I have learnt two things:

• Back-up before performing server configuration changes - no matter how simple it is.
• DO NOT INSTALL DESKTOP EXPERIENCE on Windows Server 2008.. it's a POS and it will fail and make your life miserable.

However, if you have tried and installed it and experiencing server reboots that result in the following error:

' Failure configuring windows features. Reverting changes' - followed by Windows automatically trying to re-install the service only for this to go on in an infinite loop;

This is how to fix it (well this worked for me):

NOTE: My server is a virtual server and the solution posted below is based on a virtual server environment.

1. Do not remote desktop into the server, log in directly via your VI (Virtual Infrastructure) client.
2. Login as the local administrator
3. If UAC (User Access Control) is turned on, turn it off. This will require a server restart. So at this stage, the Desktop Experience feature has installed and is asking for a restart, and turning UAC off is also prompting for a server restart.
4. Restart the server - watch Windows try and install Desktop Experience only for it to fail again. Windows will then revert the changes. At this point, do not do anything until you see the 'CTRL + ALT + DEL' prompt after Windows reverts the failed install.
5. Login as the local administrator

TADAAAHHHH! Server Manager will load and will not try to install Desktop Experience again. Now should I buy the WD TV Live?

Epic Finals Clash: Roosters 19 Tigers 15

Saturday night, at the SFS, 6:30pm kick off - Tigers home game. What? Tigers home game? A bit weird considering the SFS is well known to be the Roosters'. Didn't matter last night though, The Roosters was able to come from behind to win in a massive thriller that took the game to extra time.

Two key moments which got the Roosters through in my opinion:

• Anasta's field goal on the 80th minute which forced the game into extra time
• Shaun Kenny-Dowall's intercept try which ended the game after 100min.

Honorable mention to Todd Carney's brilliance who had a hand in the 2 second half tries from the Roosters.

I have dedicated our new blog layout to the gutsy win the Roosters produced last night.

Nokia E72 Calendar issue

If you own a Nokia E72 and having problems deleting calendar entries from once having your calendar sync from an Exchange server - boy do I have a solution for you!

Note: no Nokia forums, Nokia support pages or Nokia support 'email your issue' feature helped me solve this quite simple fix. All you have to do is:

1. Install Nokia PC Suite - my software version was 7.1.40.1
2. Connect your phone via USB.
   
3. Select the Calendar icon:
   
   
   
4. Then select an entry, hit Delete and select the entire series or all occurrences - something along those lines..

Now watch as all your unwanted calendar entries vanish! It did for me. For those who have not found this very helpful tip - have fun finding this blog page - I tried Googling this page and gave up after not being on the first page of results.

P.S. may I remind you that I did solve this crap on my own. Go me.

Movin on

Hey turns out I can't edit the games blog layout. Do something about it Pletchibald.
And so it seems like we've graduated from PC's to PS3's. Somfink like dat innit?
C'mon munkiiman, do it now! See that picture up there? You're in it! Come reclaim the Borderlands with us! By which I mean Poland! Or as it will soon be renamed... Rolandland... yeayah yeayah!

Friday!

The day you painfully wait for on a Monday morning.

An update from my previous blog, BoB has been delivered, installed and working properly. Tested the wireless speed and it clocked to be 2.5MBps, will be testing the LAN speed tonight.

In other news, our dog had crapped in our bedroom during last night or earlier this morning. Lesson learned? Leave bedroom door open so the dog can poop outside in the poop/wee box in the laundry where we have trained her to go. It's not a good sight to see as soon as you wake up on a Friday morning.