Error 29506 when installing SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express on Vista

If you need to install SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express on Windows Vista you might receive an error like the screenshot below....

How to perform an unattended installation of IIS7

There’s not a lot of point having an article on this site about how to perform an unattended installation of IIS6 (Windows XP & Windows Server 2003) and ignore IIS7 (Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista). So, here’s the article about how to perform an unattended installation of IIS7. Ready?...

Allow PING requests to reach Windows Vista

In Windows XP SP2 it was a pretty simple case of configuring the security/firewall rules for a selected network interface so that ICMP Echo (PING) requests would be allowed to pass through the firewall. ICMP Echo requests are a pretty standard way of seeing if a machine is up and running … depending on your configuration of course. In Windows Vista the way to allow PING requests is a bit different....