Well, I recently decided that running my 13 year old operating system probably wasn’t the best idea. So in my test box, I started to upgrade to windows server 2008. Well, at least its 5 years newer ha ha . Anyway, I started the install, and quickly ran into a stupid error. Apparently, there was a piece of software called Windows Powershell, that has to be installed before you can upgrade to a newer version of Windows. To me, this seems ridiculous. But ok, I’ll play along. I quickly realized why Microsoft punted this to the user. It’s not a simple uninstall procedure. As I started to dig into this, it’s not in uninstall area… hmmm, I read some forums, and they pointed to another hotfix. So I apply the hotfix. It does nothing because the update that supposedly installed this thing isn’t on my computer. WTF???
Finally, I found a clever soul that was nice enough to blog about this. Turns out, you can just rename 2 directories and the install will process just fine. Now keep in mind, no MS forum mentions this. they keep pointing back to the same post that doesn’t fix my issue. The next best answer was uninstall SR2. Well, it appears that when I installed this old version, it installed with SR 2, so even that was out of the question. Anyway, if you run into anything similar, keep in mind, sometimes the easy fix is the best fix 🙂
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