Ugh! I am stuck in Windows Registry hell. Here is the situation. I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition install running SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Visual Studio.NET 2008 SP1. It seems that with this configuration I get the following error in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{6D5140C1-7436-11CE-8034-00AA006009FA}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)). (Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop) After doing some searching it appears that...

I have recently switched my laptop over to Windows Server 2008 from Windows 7 to take advantage of hyper-v.  I wasn't happy with Virtual PC 2007 for Windows 7 and VMWare is too expensive when I have access to Windows Server 2008.  Overall the experience is very good as Windows Server 2008 runs very quickly on my Lenovo t61 (I am not running the Desktop Experience feature as this sucks too many system resources).  Since I am running this machine as my core workstation I am running Office 2007. I ran into a scenario where I wanted to enable Outlook Instant...