PC Rebuild – Check, Clean PC…Fail

I got back my shiny, rebuilt PC. After putting in a detailed build request for just Visual Studio, Visio and nothing else. No frameworks, tools, .NET stuff, nothing I fired it up. I am not shocked to see a workstation filled with so many programs, SDKs, runtimes, it looks like someone vomited up the results from a Microsoft downloads search for “.NET”. I never expected my request was not honored, I figured I would get the standard “developer” build, what I am shocked with is that the development leadership group (that I am part of) directed workstation services as to what software needs to be included in the image! FAIL!

Here is my post PC rebuild task list.

1. Install
   1. Windows Live Writer (& msn messenger) so I can blog about it…im a dork.
   2. Firefox
2. Outlook setup, painless.
3. Uninstall:
1. Windows Mobile 5 SDK R1 – Not developing for mobile.
2. Windows Mobile 5 SDK R2 – Not developing for mobile.
3. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 – Not developing for mobile.
4. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 – Not developing for mobile.
5. Microsoft Device Emulator Version 3.0 – Not developing for mobile.
6. Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.5 Design Tools – Not developing for mobile.
7. Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.5 – Not developing for mobile.
8. Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.5 for Devices – Not developing for mobile.
9. Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard 1.2 – Don’t have access to DB Servers per client standard.
4. Reopen the ticket to ask for the tech’s to install IIS (or provide me with a copy of i386). They did both!
5. Install (Using the Web Platform Installer):
1. ASP.NET MVC 1.0
2. .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
6. Install
1. Visual Studio 3.5 SP1
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3
3. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express

Now the workstation is how I would have expected it. From here I can spend the rest of the day installing all this software