I thought 25 character product keys where a pain in the proverbial, but this one takes the cake. I won’t tell you which application this authorisation code is for, but it’s a whopping 93 characters long..

Microsoft have made available an update for Windows Server 2008 that integrates the WSUS 3.0 console into Server Manager.

At some point in your migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista you’ll no doubt be looking to manage which Control Panel applets are available to users. Controlling access to applets is no different than earlier version of Windows, but given that there are approximately 48 default applets in Windows Vista compared to 29 in Windows XP, more consideration will need to be given to those which you make available.

Group Policy allows you to disable certain UI elements within Office applications, which you might want to do in the case of the Information Rights Management feature built into Office 2003 and 2007.

Adobe have made the Adobe Customisation Wizard 9 available for download for use with deploying Acrobat and Reader 9 applications.

“and I want you to f**king acknowledge it!”

I haven’t used Orca to edit MSI files since I found Camwood appEditor around November last year. Since then though, appEditor has become has become InstEd and it’s even better than its’ predecessor.

There are numerous ways to customise the default user profile in earlier versions of Windows, including:

An update to the documentation included in the Windows Automated Installation Kit are available:

Ok, two separate issues but here, but fixed the same way. First up is Windows Update reporting: