From microsoft.com:

"Beginning in Exchange 2007 Beta 2 and Outlook 2007 Beta 2, CDO 1.2.1 will no longer be provided as a part of the install of the product. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend upon. CDO 1.2.1 is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API."

You can download Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1 from microsoft here.

Just as a note, CDO was included as an optional accessory starting with Outlook 2000-ish.

1. Hit either shift key five times.
2. Select settings.
3. On the keyboard tab, and under filter keys, make sure 'use filter keys' is NOT checked.
4. Under filter keys again, select settings. Uncheck every box.
5. Now click the general tab
6. Under Administrative options uncheck both check boxes if checked. If not checked check them, click apply, ok, and then go back into it, and uncheck them.

I burned the ISO to a DVD+R but you can mount it to a drive letter on the host OS. (Virtual PC does not support ISO images over 2.2GB so the mount must be on the host OS.)

Create a new Virtual PC.  I used 256MB RAM and 16GB virtual hard drive.

Boot from the DVD or host os mounted image.

Click "Install Now".

Since the Windows Vista Beta 1 installer does not support RAW drives (ie. virtual hard drives) you must do the following:
See the Readme file for more details.  (However I was able to install it on VMWare without a problem.)

Press Shift-F10 to get a command prompt.  (I wasn't able to get Shift-F10 to work until after I selected "Install now".)

Type DISKPART at the command prompt to start the diskpart tool.

Type the following commands in diskpart:

select disk 0
create partition primary
select volume 1
format fs=ntfs label="windows vista"

Type EXIT to exit diskpart.

Reset the virtual pc via the Virtual PC Console window.

When you reboot an install, the partition will be ready to be selected.


Total install took 3 hours.  Compared to 1 hour with VMWare (see link). (I did use a little less memory in VPC, could that be why?)

Keywords:  Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 VPC2004 VPC 2004 Longhorn Microsoft Vista Beta 1 OS

VMWare Workstation 4.5.2

1. Start VMWare Workstation.
2. Select menu item: File -> New Virtual Machine...
3. Choose a Typical Configuration, Microsoft Windows, Longhorn (experimental).
4. Choose your network connection.  (I chose Bridged)
5. Choose disk capacity.  (I chose 20GB, unallocated)
6a. Insert your Microsoft Vista Beta 1 DVD disc and boot from the dvd.
OR
6b. Mount the MSDN ISO as the CD drive.

During the installation the video color depth is 4 bits resulting in color dithering making it difficult to read text on the screen.
Installation seemed to lock up a couple times where the mouse cursor would not moved for about a minute or so, but it recovered fine.

After the 1st reboot (there are 2) during the installation which occurs when the progress bar is about 50%, the progress bar becomes more of an activity bar so you can't guage how much longer the install will take.
From the start of the install it took 1 hour until the 2nd reboot, which finally boots into Window Vista.
After the system has rebooted, the Supplemental Driver Pack Installation Wizard runs... which for ended with "Drivers are unavailable for your devices."

Install VMWare Tools
 Do not install install the VMWare Tools from the VMWare Workstation VM menu as it does not work.
 You must edit the Virtual Machine Settings and mount the windows.iso cd image to a vm cd drive.
 
 VXMNet will fail to install, and although there are descriptions on how to fix this for version 5.0, I have not resolved the issue with 4.5.2.

 Once you reboot your video will be much better but you still don't have network or sound.
 
 I was not able to get the network driver to work even on a manual install so I don't know that 4.5.2 support it.
 

If you are using 5.0, here is a link on getting it to work:

Total installation took just over an hour on my pc.

First off let me tell you how much I love this remote control. I got rid of my 5 remote controls and now just use the Logitech Harmony 880 Remote Control. It's a bit pricey but considering my wife can now use the entertainment system, it's well worth it!

Now back to the Tivo situation. After first setting up the remote to work with tivo I noticed that the quick button response/performance that i was used to from the tivo remote was now slow with the harmony remote. After doing some digging around I found 2 settings that make the remote work just as well as the tivo remote...

1. Setting the Inter-Key Delay to 0
First set the Inter-Key Delay to 0. If this causes problems you can set it a bit higher, but 0 works for me. I also have Inter-Device Delay set to 500, but this is not important for what we are trying to do here. So to change this setting, which defaults to 500, from the Harmony Home Page select the 'More Options' link next to the Tivo device (not the tivo activity). The Device Options page should appear, from which you should select 'Adjust the Delays (speed settings)'. In the Inter-key Delay box, enter 0 and click Next, then click Next again from the next page.

2. Setting command repeat count to 0
Secondly and lastly set the command repeat count to 0. So to change this setting, which defaults to 3, from the Harmony Home Page select the 'Troubleshoot' link next to the Tivo device (not the tivo activity). The Adjusting Setup:Device Problems page should appear, from which you should select 'Show me more problems' radio button and then click Next. On the next page, choose 'TIVO doesn't appear to receive every command correctly.' and click Next. On the next page select 'The device responds too much to some commands (for example, volume up increases the volume too quickly).' and click Next. A list of numbers 0 to 5 will appear. This is the number of times the remote will send a command to Tivo which defaults to 3. Set this to 0 which works fine for me. If you have problems with this try increasing it to 1.

And that's it. Once I changed these settings, my tivo responded to my harmony 880 remote as quickly as it did to my tivo remote.

A couple more little tricks

To facilitate quicker fast forward and rewinds, I mapped the up arrow and down arrow respectively.  I just found it a little difficult to quickly locate the fast forward/rewind and play buttons.

Since I also have a ‘Tivo Stereo’ activity, I added a custom button to lower the volume on the tivo.  This also works with other activities like DVD.  I tried just muting the tv, but the tv leave the word ‘MUTE’ on the screen.

Thank you Harmony for providing my best gadget purchase in quite some time.

I'm not sure when this started but I noticed that my Exchange Server's POP3 and IMAP4 services were no longer being started. When I would manually start them I would get 'Error 1083: The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.'

I found the Q277770 Microsoft Knowledge base article which addresses this and fixed the problem. However I still do not know what caused this as it was working at some point in the past.