One of the things that my laptop was unable to do after installing Windows Server 2008 on it, was being able to get Bluetooth working. Several people have, in comments on my previous post, asked for a solution. Thankfully Gil Kirkpatrick has published a great howto explaining how to hack the Bluetooth stack drivers to get them installed and running on Windows Server 2008.
In his Installing the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on Windows Server 2008 post, he gives a detailed explanation on how you should be able to make certain changes to several .inf files to enable their installation in a Windows Server 2008 environment. The trick is to to go through the various files, and basically replace the amd64...1 string in them with amd64...3 this making them installable on a server operating system.
I can vouch for the accuracy of his post, and method. I just spent 10 minutes going through the experience, and yes, I do now have a working Bluetooth stack on my ThinkPad T60 running Windows Server 2008.
Thanks a lot Gil, you made my day!
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