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I have a friend with a laptop running windows 7 starter.

He's trying to install itunes on tis PC, which he had done before but then uninstalled it and now has a problem with it. everytime he goes to install itunes it gets half way through before freezing and then eventually retuning an error about installing a MS VC 80 x86 assembly.

I have tried installing in admin mode but have had no luck with this. I have also downloaded one of the MS VC packages from the microsoft site and this also errors out with 1 second to go.

anything i might be missing?

Ok so the last time i posted about search on the microsoft site, it wasn't clear cut who was in the wrong (me or Microsoft).  This time i believe there is irefutable proof that Microsoft don't really know what they're doing when it comes to powering search on their site.

Right well... why does Windows server appear twice in this list? whats up with that?

And wait.... what, why are you linking me to wikipedia... that isn't a microsoft site.. also why is there nothing about beta in any of those search results? and why when you change any of the criteria in "by download type" do the search results never change?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/windowsserver/bb405947.aspx

It's been a long while since I've updated my google reader feed with developers to follow, and the ones I have been following have been slowly going to ground (Dare, Larry... where are you guys).

There hasn't been any good excitement/speculation/rumours/etc etc in my feed for my liking, so who are you guys following? What are the active development blogs you're reading and more specifically, which ones are all about Build?

The IT departments I have worked in have been money spinners, the first firms moreso.  Without the IT department in the first company, the company would of been dead in the water.

This really applies to those who don't work for a technology company.

The 2 firms I have worked for haven't been pure technology companies, and despite IT being one of the major backbones they always seem to treat it like it's a 6th leg of a 4 leg table (because legal or someone is always the 5th leg).

As a CIO, Manager, developer or anything to do with IT, what do you do to encourage your company to talk about IT playing a serious part and becoming that 4th leg instead of the 3rd cousin twice removed?  Or am I the only person to feel like this?

@Jaz:FECK ME

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foreach { 
    $count = $_;
    gci -Path \\myserver-web$count\d$\IISLogs\ -include *.log -recurse | % { $dirName = $_.directoryname; $logname = $_.Name; $_ | Copy-Item -Destination $("D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w"+$count+"\"+$dirname+"_"+$logName) -whatif }
}

@AndyC: I don't think i have.  

really struggling with this...

I missed the output before, i am looping over the files, copying 100 files named after the 1st file, then onto the 2nd file copying 100 files named after the 2nd, and so forth... make it stop

@Jaz:

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foreach { 
    $count = $_;
    $x = gci -Path \\uktv-web$count\d$\IISLogs\ -include *.log -recurse
    $x | ForEach-Object {
        Copy-Item $x -Destination $("D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w"+$count+"\"+$_.Directory.Name+"_"+$_.Name) -whatIf
    }
        
}

cheers @AndyC

@Jaz: Halfway there with this

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foreach { 
    $count = $_;
    $x = gci -Path \\myserver-web$count\d$\IISLogs\ -include *.log -recurse
    $x | ForEach-Object {
        Copy-Item $x -Destination $("D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w"+$count+"\"+$_.Directoryname+"_"+$_.Name) -whatIf
    }
        
}

however it's appending too much to the destination: D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w1\uktv-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1135081669_ex110330.log

when i want it to be: D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w1\W3SVC1135081669_ex110330.log

any tips?

@AndyC:

I tried this

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foreach { 
    $count = $_; 
    $x = gci -Path \\myserver-web$count\d$\IISLogs\ -include *.log -recurse

    $x | Copy-Item -Destination D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w$count\$_.DirectoryName_$_.Name -whatIf
}

however $_.DirectoryName_$_.Name aren't outputting anything... any ideas?