Comments for Mark Parris

Comment on Office 2010 Installation Error: The language of this installation package is not supported by your system. by markparris

markparris — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:44:49 +0000

Do you still have the original download? As this is what you need? Else look at the directory structure I published and move the files into the relevant folder.

Comment on Office 2010 Installation Error: The language of this installation package is not supported by your system. by Shafeea

Shafeea — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:59:57 +0000

I have the same problem. I have an extracted file folder, i’m not sure which program was used to extract the files. The setup gives me the same error. How can I fix the problem without re-dowloading the file?

Comment on Office 2010 – KMS Host activation. by Chris Rowley

Chris Rowley — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:21:34 +0000

Mark,

I found that I had to navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14 and then run cscript ospp.vbs /act

Comment on MCM:Directory by markparris

markparris — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:05:04 +0000

Sorry for the delay in replying, but I have been in Latin America.

Allen, expect two weeks of intensive AD.

Depending on where you are staying, you will need a car, I stayed at the long stay place, which is 1/4 mile from the building where all the classes occur..

Read the documentation on my blog and let me know if you have any more Q’s.

Comment on Office 2010 Installation Error: The language of this installation package is not supported by your system. by Samim Akhtar

Samim Akhtar — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:03:10 +0000

Thanks a lot Mark…… Thanxx Thanxx Thanxx!!!!

Samim Akhtar
India, West Bengal

Comment on Active Directory Diagnostic Logging by RR

RR — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:09:23 +0000

Yea Nice one Mark, Thanks.

Comment on Office 2010 Installation Error: The language of this installation package is not supported by your system. by jserink

jserink — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:29:23 +0000

Mate!

Even Mickeysoft didn’t know about this fix.

You are a complete star!

Cheers,
john

Comment on MCM:Directory by Allen Ho

Allen Ho — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:08:29 +0000

Hi Mark,
Could you share more insights into logistics or what to expect for MCM:Directory Service?

Regards,
Allen Ho (kuanho@microsoft.com)
Premier Field Engineer

Comment on Active Directory .local domain design and Office 365. by Friday Mail Sack: Dang, This Year Went Fast Edition

Friday Mail Sack: Dang, This Year Went Fast Edition — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:06:01 +0000

[...] issue: .local is a pseudo top-level domain suffix used by multicast DNS. As our friend Mark Paris points out, it can lead to other aches and pains. There is no good reason to use .local and the MS [...]

Comment on Active Directory Tombstone Lifetime – Set it to the correct value. by Mark Robson

Mark Robson — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:09:31 +0000

Good article, Mark.

I intended to follow this for my own Forest, however, I ran into an issue. Manually triggering Garbage Collection didn’t affect the schedule in my tests. As a result, there was no guarantee that garbage collection wouldn’t run 5 minutes after being manually triggered, which could remove objects which had just hit the TSL – Small risk I know, but was enough to worry me.

I am looking at other ways of doing this within my forest and I’m thinking of this approach:

1. Increasing the garbageCollPeriod to 480, replicate.
2. Changing the TSL to 180, replicate
3. Change the gabageCollPeriod back to , replicate

This appears to be the safest option to mitigate the risk of lingering objects and means I don’t have to hit every Domain Controller in my Forest.

What do you think?

Mark.