I was going through my emails and I found one from July of 2004 that prompted me to this trip down memory lane. During that fateful month, I was under some serious pressure to get our Electronic Claims solution up and running. We were using BTS 2004 and the HIPAA Accelerator 3.0 which was in its relative infancy. After mucho dll trading with engineers from MS, I finally got our solution up and running. Needless to say, the powers that be, weren't impressed. After all, BTS isn't as sophisticated as Excel or Project.
I was then asked to get the solution up and running from a bare-bones Server 2003 machine. Okay, I said, just watch and learn. I proceeded to install the BTS pre-requisites while at the same time, making paper airplanes out of my copy of our internal BTS installation guide. Me? Follow an installation document? The document that I wrote? Hell, no!!
I was at the home stretch now - configuring BTS - and generally playing to the audience, when I was knocked out of my chair by the following error message. I swear I haven't altered this image in any way:
Later I found out that it was something as simple as an incorrect logon which prevented the installation from adding users to COM+ Application roles, but at that particular moment, all I could do was to shake my head and listen to the guys laughing their asses off at me.