Windows components

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Ok, lets say you add a Windows component to your install. When installing there is a prompt for the Windows disk so you put the CD and then the component is installed.

You then uninstall the component and then reinstall it but the second time there is no prompt for the disk, why is this? Is it in the I386 folder somewhere?

I have a problem with a server right now and I *think* reinstalling a Windows component may fix it but I don’t get a prompt for the OS CD as the component has been installed previously.

Any ideas?

 

I think I may have fixed the problem.

Basically I couldn’t configure SBS fax in the Management Console, I got a error message saying that the fax service was not installed even though it is.

I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it from Windows components but no joy.

However I found another way of reinstalling it (this also applies for other SBS components) by going into add\remove programs and then selecting the actual install of SBS and then select change\remove.

After that you get the original SBS to do list and then you can remove the fax component. I rebooted and then went into add\remove programs again, selected SBS and ONLY highlighted Fax services. Problem fixed!

I would recommend trying this in a test environment first as the wizard looks the same as when you are installing SBS which made me think I was going to put everything back to default, no Active Directory users? Arrgh!

 

No problem. The amount of f**ked up SBS boxes I have inherited over the past couple of months is an absolute joke (Fax problem was on a new clients server last week). I have another one lined up where there is a SBS box and all the local clients connect to it with POP3 settings for email. The guy who installed the network didn’t bother to add the PCs to the domain and give them proper Exchange profiles.

The guy must not have any certs, hee hee!