KB982671 Fails to Install

Description – When installing KB982671 you receive an error in the System log (ID: 20, Source: Windows Update Agent) that says, “Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0×80070643: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for Windows XP x86 (KB982671).” You also get an error in the Application log (ID: 5000, Source: VSSetup) that says, “EventType vssetup, P1 microsoft .net framework 4 setup, P2 4.0.30319, P3 10.0.30319.1, P4 1, P5  , P6 none_ui_silent_error, P7 0x13ec, P8 0, P9  , P10 NIL.”

Solution – Free up some disk space. The free disk space required to install this update is 850MB for x86 & 2GB for x64.

Ref – http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=186916

Error Starting Word 2010

I’m building a new Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Session Host. After installing Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus I start Word & get an error that says, “There is insufficient memory or disk space. Word cannot display the requested font.”

Simple answer…reboot.

Explorer Crashes When Right Clicking on the Desktop

I had a computer that everytime you right clicked on the desktop Explorer would crash. Using ShellExView I looked at all the “Context Menu” types. The only non-Microsoft entry was for igfxcui which is part of the Intel video driver. I right clicked the entry & selected disable. Went back to the desktop & right clicked. This time I did not get the error.

You can also just delete the following key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\igfxcui

There’s even a article on Intel’s website about this problem. Ramesh Srinivasan’s site was helpful in getting to the bottom of this as well.

Error in Exchange 2010 EMC after demoting a DC

The day after demoting my last Windows Server 2003 DC I started receiving two errors in my Exchange 2010 EMC when clicking on the Mailboxes node. The errors were:

• An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers. It was running the command ‘Get-OrganizationConfig’.
• An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers. It was running the command ‘Get-Recipient -PropertySet ConsoleLargeSet  -ResultSize ’1000′ -SortBy DisplayName -RecipientType ‘UserMailbox”.

The fix is to close the EMC then browse to C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\MMC & delete the file called “Exchange Management Console”. Opened the EMC again & no error.

The two links below had the solution:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/exchange2010/thread/cb231da0-2b06-41ce-9f4a-f11d408cf07f

http://blog.chrislehr.com/2010/06/odd-domain-controller-errors-in.html