Error Message:

The operation failed due to an installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again.

I received this error message this morning when I opened Outlook 2003 with a new user profile. It opened fine with the local Administrator account.

I checked the Windows Event Viewer and there’s a “Warning” entry there for MsiInstaller (Event ID 1004) with a description of “Detection of product… The resource ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserData’ does not exist.”

Doing the following fixed the …

Microsoft will be having launch events across the country for their three new products: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008. The first one is on February 27, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. They’ll be giving away a promotional kit with versions of all three products to those who attend.

Click here to register.

We went to their launch event last year for Vista and Office 2007 and it was pretty good. …

I just read this article on CIO.com about the best BlackBerry shortcuts. It’s a pretty big list, 39 total. Here are the 20 that I found most useful and I hope you find them useful as well:

Typing Shortcuts

1. To capitalize a letter with one click, hold down the letter key.
2. To insert a period, click the Space key twice.
3. Turn CAP Lock on by pressing the ALT key followed by the right Shift key. …

Error message: 

A connection to the deployment share (\\server\deployment_share) could not be made. The deployment will not proceed.

I ran into this problem this morning when trying to load Windows XP on a new computer using Business Desktop Deployment and Windows Deployment Services. It turned out that the reason for this is because my WinPE boot image didn’t have the network drivers for the new computer (when you type in ipconfig /all in the …

Error Message:

Mapi session “/o=Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=JohnSmith” exceeded the maximum of 32 objects of type “session”.

Source: MSExchangeIS

Event ID: 9646
On the client side, the user is unable to connect to Microsoft Exchange or getting this error:

Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft Exchange Server is down for maintenance.

This usually happens when the user loses …