Notes from the Ether

So the IT dept has been told we need to start working on Vista upgrades.  XP is going end of life next year (or so MS is threatening anyway), so we’ve got to start getting people migrated.  My first step is to start using Vista myself, so I’ve taken the plunge today.

The install was good, it actually saved my old XP files, which I liked, when I realized I hadn’t backed up some IM logs that had some info I didn’t want to lose.  Everything was going pretty well.  I jumped on the network (although the domain login screens seem clunky compared to XP, but that’s okay).  I configured my desktop the way I wanted it … looks cool.

Then I went to install MS Office 2007 … and it all went to hell.  Used the same installer that I’d used on XP.  No go.  Stopped with a ProPls.cab file that it couldn’t find.  Fair enough.  Figured maybe the file was corrupt on the files I downloaded.  Downloaded a fresh copy.  Same problem. 

Now it’s not funny anymore.  I’ve resorted to downloading Office 2007 enterprise and I’m loading it from a locally mounted ISO – more on that in my next post.  That seems to have gone much better .. but what a a pain in the ass.