I’m migrating a Small Business Server 2003 to Small Business Server 2008 and I hit a problem. The source server is in English and the target server is in Swedish. You need to run sourcetool.exe to prepare the source server AD Schema. This tools fails if you take the tools folder from a Swedish media. (or any other than the language of the source server). The error you get is UnableToModifyError(6)

I found the solution after a few hours of Google. Change the name of the folder called sv-se located in the adprep folder. In my case I change from sv-se to en-us. Then run the sourcetool.exe again with success.

Big thanks to this blog and this thread. Saved my day!

My work laptop is a HP 6730b and i’m not that pleased with it. Especially when I place it in the dock and power it up. The problem is that I need to have the laptop open and to login with the laptop. Then I can close the lid. If I don’t follow this procedure I wont get the desired effect. I’ve thought this is a HP problem since I did not experience this at all with my last Fujitsu Lifebook.

Then I found some articles about Transiet Multimon Manager and how this is a service in Vista that helps me with my displays or at least it tries to help me.

Toms hardware explains this service in short.
Transient Multi-Monitor Manager or  Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) is a cool Windows Vista Feature that simplifies the setup of display configurations on mobile computers.Windows Vista Transient Multimon Manager is targeted at improving the user experience of connecting and disconnecting external displays Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) can place a mobile computer display (for example, a laptop computer display) into clone view when a new monitor is detected.TMM is enabled by default in Windows Vista. TMM automatically finds external displays at boot, it can also remember settings of the same external display if you connect it later.If you are not using an external monitor, or don’t switch back and forth always then turn TMM off.This is the 2-3 second delay followed by a blank black screen as Windows Vista searches for monitor changes when you startup Vista.

So I need to start my computer without having it in the docking station and then logon and afterwards place it in the dock. Before I had to restart my computer to get the external screen working.

Conclusion is that Microsoft have made feature that work for persons who have a docking station at work and then work at home sometimes and always shutting their PC down. I use my computer alot and when I leave one customer i hibernate or put the computer in sleep mode. So this is a nice feature for some but not implemented right. In other words a normal windows feature.