{"id":33,"date":"2008-04-26T03:20:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nukeitmike.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/26\/MoreOnUsingServer2008AsYourDesktopOS.aspx"},"modified":"2008-04-26T03:20:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T03:20:46","slug":"more-on-using-server-2008-as-your-desktop-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/26\/more-on-using-server-2008-as-your-desktop-os\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Using Server 2008 as your Desktop OS…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been working on configuring my laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad T61) with all the tools and gadgets and STUFF that I like to have on my laptop.\u00a0 Of course the Office products installed just fine, but when I went to install some of the other little things I use, like Windows Live Writer and Windows Live Messenger I got what anyone else will get if you just go to the Live site and try to install them:<\/p>\n

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Luckily, I managed to find a post where someone else was having the same sort of problem and that led me to a link to the actual installer instead of the WLinstaller.\u00a0 The WLinstaller doesn’t do anything on 2008 except tell you it doesn’t like any Server OS.\u00a0 Here<\/a> is a link to a nice person who has the installer for just Windows Live Writer.\u00a0 Go to the bottom of the page for the one that works.<\/p>\n

For Windows Messenger, so far I have only been able to get 8.1 to install.\u00a0 If anyone finds how to get the latest version installed, let me know…\u00a0 I am guessing you should be able to do it if you can figure a way around that stupid installer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been working on configuring my laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad T61) with all the tools and gadgets and STUFF that I like to have on my laptop.\u00a0 Of course the Office products installed just fine, but when I went to install some of the other little things I use, like Windows Live Writer and… Continue reading More on Using Server 2008 as your Desktop OS…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info","category-microsoft","category-server-2008","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcW544-x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}