Office 2010 Professional Plus fails with unexpected restart on Windows XP

The Situation Office 2010 Professional Plus (32-bit) deployed to Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (32-bit) clients with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2 (64-bit). Office 2010 configured with Office Customization Tool (OCT) according to Microsoft guidelines. The Problem Upon completion the installation would initiate a forced reboot without prompting the user or giving …

SCVMM P2V and ISA Server 2006

I recently upgraded my home network to Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG), retiring my old ISA Server 2006 server. I exported my ISA configuration and imported it into TMG, but to be on the safe side I decided to keep a copy of the server as a virtual machine. I used the P2V wizard in …