Damn. This is a cool, geeky post. Once again, I’m breaking my rule of cross-posting to another blog… partially because this post is a really good one and the result of a lot of effort and partially because Robert is a good guy – despite all his recent rant-filled hysterics.
(Robert – Lighten up buddy. We all love you but there’s been a few posts where your ranting is beginning to sound impatient, irrational and just downright grouchy… kinda like like Steven Smith’s (a.k.a. the Zune Tattoo Guy) final “Farewell” video, which by the way was a shame too because I thought that dude’s heart was in the right place… he just lacked sufficient patience to get to the goal line of v3.0. And based on your previous posts, that’s just not ‘you’.)
Robert wanted to install the new Windows Live beta software releases on Windows Server 2008. The only problem is, we have a lame installer filter that bounces any attempt to install Windows Live on anything other than Desktop client operating systems.
So, he medieval on the installer and went about figuring out how to get the .MSIs to download on a client OS temp directory, then moved the .MSIs over to his server install and… walla! It installed just fine.
And yeah, I agree with you Robert on this one: This sort of maniacal control over where software gets installed is weak sauce… kinda like what Apple does with, well, everything in their products. The Live group obviously does this because because, hey, we don’t test on those OS’s and they want to minimize the support call/mail volume. But the least they could do is provide a documented way of accomplishing the same thing you did, without all the ProcMon B.S..
In any case, nice job Robert.
(Robert McLaws is the creator of Windows-Now.com)
LINK:
http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/installing-windows-live-wave-3-betas-on-windows-server.aspx
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