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Office 2010 Rollout Fun

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I’ve been attempting to install office 2010 to several PCs using SCCM 2007 (sp2, r3). What a pain. You’d think deploying the exe with an appropriate config.xml would be ok, but it seems to ahve serious issues upgrading older versions. Originally, 2010 was deployed sans outlook as we’er a Notes house, however, Outlook is being deployed at one site so I create an MSP that would modify it, using setup.exe /admin. Easy enough. This worked on most of the computers, but some of them it managed to wreck.

Found [0] resource files under the default folder.
Resource File Manager : Current user’s LCID is [2057].
Resource File Manager : error : ResourceFileManager does not contain at least one ResourceFile. Unable to find best match ResourceFile for CultureTag=[en-GB].
Unable to locate a suitable resource file which contains resources that match the current user’s Locale [2057].

Found [0] resource files under the default folder.Resource File Manager : Current user’s LCID is [2057].Resource File Manager : error : ResourceFileManager does not contain at least one ResourceFile. Unable to find best match ResourceFile for CultureTag=[en-GB].Unable to locate a suitable resource file which contains resources that match the current user’s Locale [2057].

‘Setup Error’, Message: ‘The language of this installation package is not supported by your system.

Occasionally, setup would just reboot the machine when I tried to modify it. I couldn’t run it, I could’t manually use /uninstall either.

This is a UK machine with UK location and UK office. I’ve no idea waht the problem is, but I managed to sort it out with a combination of running the office 2010 uninstall tool which is here . I uninstalled everything that was remotely “officey” from ARP including the compatibility tools, ran every uninstall utility in the mentioned site and finally got it working.

As far as I can tell, something installed previously thought it was a finny language, though I’ve no idea what or why.

This has been an utter pain, and I’m very worried about deploying it company wide if it is this picky. Got it fixed eventually with the steps listed above though.

Good luck!

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Sharepoint 2010

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Currently installing shareopint 2010 at work. With the hope that it will become the new intranet and more. I think the ultimate plan is for some sort of document management and de-duplication of the same files in everyone’s home drive! That alone should save a few tb!

I’ll let you know how it goes and any show stoppers we find. So far so good though

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Domestic Cleaning in Southampton

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Completely unrelated to this blog really, but I thought I’d lend a hand. A friend ha started a cleaning company in Southampton called “Maid2Clean Southampton” that provides general domestic cleaning and ironing duties to people in the Southampton area and Winchester and Romsey areas. These duties include things such as dusting, mopping and hoovering.

Their website is located at www.maid2clean.co.uk/southampton if you are in need of any cleaning 🙂

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SCCM Pre-R3 client patch

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Here’s my collection to deploy the “power management” pack to clients. This is the MSP file that you get with R3 that clients need to have in order to manage power settings correctly. This collection selection should work, at least it seems to do so anyway!

select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE on SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_R_System.ClientType = 1 and SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.Name = “SmsPowerManagement” and SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.Version < “4.0.6487.2157”