I was setting up NLB on Windows Server 2008 today and encountered this error: “Attempt to install Network Load Balancing failed with error code 0×80070643. Fatal Error during installation” Upon Googling the error (no, I’m haven’t been converted to Bing quite yet), I didn’t come up with any direct hits, although I did find this blog post on installing MSMQ with the same error code.
The long and short of it is that to install some features on Windows Server, it looks like you need to disable the User Access Control (UAC) first. The steps to disable it are (as given in the aforementioned link):
1. Go to Control panel and click User Accounts
2. Select User Accounts and click Turn User Account Control on/ Off
3. Un-check the check box beside User Account Control
4. Close the User Account Window, reboot the computer and try to install your feature again
These steps worked beautifully for me and allowed me to proceed with installing and configuring NLB for my servers. As was mentioned in the blog as well, once you have installed your features, it is safe to re-enable UAC on your servers if you would like.
The moral of the story, if something isn’t working quite right in Windows Server 2008, try disabling UAC before you try anything else.
After a little over a month since my last blog post I’m back. The lapse in posting had several contributing factors. The biggest being that within the last month I go married and then went on a week long honeymoon to St. Lucia with my beautiful bride. (I’ll maybe put up a few pics when we get our favorites). That combined with the increased workload to make up for the time off didn’t give me a lot of time to blog. I’ve also been eagerly awaiting the Office 2010 suite of products to start working with.
So, rather than posting sever updates, I figured I would post one update that highlights what has been going one.
First, I have the SharePoint 2010 bits that I have started testing. Due to an NDA with Microsoft, I can’t talk about them other than if you want to get a peak, head over to http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx where MS has posted 3 videos giving you a sneak peak at SharePoint 2010.
Secondly, I have also installed the Office 2010 clients. I was accepted into the Office 2010 beta program on http://connect.microsoft.com. There is no NDA in place for the clients, so there may be more posts following on that topic.
Also, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have both RTM’d. You should expect to see them on MSDN and TechNet the beginning of August. I’ve seen several dates, so I won’t try to predict, just keep your eyes open. You can see the official Microsoft Post here.
The June Cumulative Update Package for SharePoint 2007 has also been released. Head over herehttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/07/20/june-cumulative-update-packages-ready-for-download.aspx to get the download links and more information about the update.
I read an article on The Seattle Times website that in an attempt to compete with Google Docs, Microsoft will be releasing a free web based version of Microsoft office. Read the Full Article here.
I think that’s all I have for now, stay tuned as more and more information becomes available on the Office 2010 suite of products.