Installing Sage Accounts 2010 on Windows 10

If you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to install Sage Accounts 2010 then you'll probably see that installing it isn't as easy as you may think. When you run the installation, Windows 10 will stop it and not let you install.

Right click on the installer and select "Run as Administrator" I hear you cry! Alas, that won't work either.

Disable UAC? Nope

To get around it, run a command prompt as an administrator and then launch the installation from here - problem solved

You may also find that updates won't automatically download - in which case you'll need to log into the Sage website and download them manually. Use the above process again to run the updates

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) The namespace \root\microsoft\bits doesn't exist on the server RTS.

Recently we've been converting a number of physical machines to virtual ones - and to help the process we've been using the MVMC wizard.

One of the error messages that we often see is:

The namespace \root\Microsoft\bits doesn't exist on the server RTS.

Why? Because I always forget to install the BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) feature before I start! 

So to fix this error, simply install this as a feature making sure to select the compact server as an option and it should resolve it for you