We just upgraded from Exchange 2007 RTM to Exchange 2007 SP1 yesterday morning and I’m happy to say that the upgrade went very smoothly. It took about 20 minutes.

Here are some things to consider:

1. Install .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 before upgrading. This may not be required but Microsoft recommends it.
2. If you have more than one Exchange server, Microsoft recommends that you upgrade the servers running the Mailbox server role last. Upgrade your …

Update: Two more users reported the same problem and it looks like it’s actually the Adobe PDF add-in causing the problem! I noticed that all 3 users have this add-in. I didn’t uninstall it because they’re using it, but what I did to fix this problem was I installed and enabled one of the add-ins that is part of Office 2007 and all their Excel files started loading fast again :).

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We have one computer at work that I couldn’t send a Remote Assistance request to and whenever I try to query it using WMI and PowerShell I get the following error message:

Get-WmiObject : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

The problem turned out to be DCOM. For some reason it got disabled.

To change its settings, do the following:

1. Go to Start -> Run, type in dcomcnfg.
2. Go to Component …

I had to do this just a few minutes ago and I figured I should probably post it here.

1. Open Registry Editor by going to Start -> Run and typing in regedit.
2. Go to File -> Connect Network Registry… and type in the name of the computer where you want Remote Desktop enabled. Click OK.
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server of that computer.
4. Double-click the DWORD called fDenyTSConnections and set its value to 0. …

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 …