Windows

Incredibly irritating error when you go to install under your user account when you’re using mapped drives for your documents. All our domain users have a userfolder on the server, it’s mapped as z:\ and there is a folder redirection set up. It’s pretty standard in a corporate/domain environment, so why does it cause so many Vista installations to fail?

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  <font size="2">If you&rsquo;re using UAC (User Account Control) you might need to map the network drive as the administrator. This is a pain in the @$$ because you have to disconnect the drive under your user account first. Of course, if you&rsquo;ve got ANY documents open, this will upset your profile. Anyway, steps for that: </font> <ol>
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      <font size="2">Disconnect the currently mapped drive. </font>
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      <font size="2">Open the command prompt as the administrator. Type "net use \\[server]\share and check that it&rsquo;s mapped by typing &ldquo;net use&rdquo;.<br /> </font>
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        <font size="2">Open explorer and navigate to your shared folder and right click, use the &ldquo;Map Network Drive&rdquo; wizard to map the share under your user profile. </font>
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        <font size="2">If all above fails (as in my case), your only option is to log in as a user that doesn&rsquo;t map drives (machine local admin works for me, but then you have to enable that user as it&rsquo;s disabled by default. You also have to provide a password for it - don&rsquo;t forget to disable again after an install.)</font>
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            <font size="2">I could rant about how rubbish this is, but to be honest I am to hacked off at wasting my afternoon trying to work around this.</font>
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, that’s for various reasons, one of which was that I have been preparing for, and taking, my MCSA exams. So here it is…

I’ve finally cracked the installation problems with VS 2003 SP1 on Vista. The problem seems to be that the SP must be installed under the same credentials that Visual Studio was installed. I.e. I installed Visual Studio under the domain administrator credentials, but I run my day-to-day under a standard user credential. When installing the SP1 I was elevating my standard user credential rather than running as the domain admin. I don’t know what difference that makes to anything, but it’s worked!

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  <font size="2">&nbsp;Next time you boot&nbsp;the Virual Machine, you&rsquo;ll have to re-attach the .vmdk in it&rsquo;s correct location. </font>
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        <span class="co1"><font size="2" color="#808080">REM RegisterAdminPak.cmd</font></span>
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        <span class="co1"><font size="2" color="#808080">REM (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</font></span>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=adprop.dll azroles.dll azroleui.dll ccfg95.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% certadm.dll certmmc.dll certpdef.dll certtmpl.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% certxds.dll cladmwiz.dll clcfgsrv.dll clnetrex.dll</font>
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      <div class="de1">
        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% cluadmex.dll cluadmmc.dll cmproxy.dll cmroute.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% cmutoa.dll cnet16.dll debugex.dll dfscore.dll</font>
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      <div class="de1">
        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% dfsgui.dll dhcpsnap.dll dnsmgr.dll domadmin.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% dsadmin.dll dsuiwiz.dll imadmui.dll lrwizdll.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% mprsnap.dll msclus.dll mstsmhst.dll mstsmmc.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% nntpadm.dll nntpapi.dll nntpsnap.dll ntdsbsrv.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% ntfrsapi.dll rasuser.dll rigpsnap.dll rsadmin.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% rscommon.dll rsconn.dll rsengps.dll rsjob.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% rsservps.dll rsshell.dll rssubps.dll rtrfiltr.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% schmmgmt.dll tapisnap.dll tsuserex.dll vsstskex.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% w95inf16.dll w95inf32.dll winsevnt.dll winsmon.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% winsrpc.dll winssnap.dll ws03res.dll</font>
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        <font size="2">&nbsp;</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw1"><font color="#a1a100">for</font></span> %%i <span class="kw1"><font color="#a1a100">in</font></span> <span class="br0"><font color="#66cc66">(</font></span>%<span class="re2">filelist</span>%<span class="br0"><font color="#66cc66">)</font></span> <span class="kw1"><font color="#a1a100">do</font></span> <span class="br0"><font color="#66cc66">(</font></span></font>
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        <font size="2">&nbsp;<span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">echo</font></span> Registering %%i &hellip;</font>
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        <font size="2">&nbsp;regsvr32 /s %%i</font>
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        <span class="br0"><font size="2" color="#66cc66">)</font></span>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">echo</font></span>.</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">Echo</font></span> Command Completed</font>
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        <span class="sc3"><span class="re1"><font size="2"><span class="re0">name</span>=<span class="st0"><font color="#ff0000">&ldquo;system.webServer&rdquo;</font></span> <span class="re0">type</span>=<span class="st0"><font color="#ff0000">&ldquo;System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089&Prime;</font></span><span class="re2">></span></font></span></span>
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        <span class="sc3"><span class="re1"><font size="2">></font></span></span>
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