Stupid as I am , I changed the password of the account that was bound to the service and tried again. This led to the mentioned eventlog entry:

The server encryption keys could not be accessed.
 
User Action
Verify that the service account has permissions to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Forefront Identity Manager\2010\Synchronization Service
 
If the problem persists, run setup and restore the encryption keys from backup.

I then slapped myself for changing the password. But (I think) I solved it.

• Navigate to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Online Directory Sync\SYNCBUS\Synchronization Service\Bin and start the application “miiskmu”
• Choose the option to abandon your key set.
• Start the “Directory Sync Configuration” tool and reconfigure your synchronization
• After this start your services again (the “Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service” was already started) and start a manual sync
• This could lead to the following message in your eventlog:
  Eventid: 6126
  The management agent “TargetWebService” completed run profile “Delta Confirming Import” with a delta import or delta synchronization step type. The rules configuration has changed since the last full import or full synchronization.
• So with the help of the miisclient I started a full sync, a full confirming import and a export.

After this, everything was up and running again.
Use @ your own risk

I didn’t want that anymore, I just wanted the following structure:
<Drive>:\<YEAR PHOTO WAS TAKEN>

For that I created a little powershell script:

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$sourcefolder = "path to folder"
 
$files = Get-ChildItem -Recurse $sourcefolder | where {$_.PSIScontainer -eq $false}
foreach ($file in $files)
	{
		$destinationFolder = Split-Path -Parent $file.Directory.FullName
		move-item $file.FullName $destinationFolder
	}

To get this functionality is something really simple. Just configure your reporting server with email functionality by using the Reporting Services Configuration Manager

After some searching on the EC2 Forums I found this post which helped me out.

In short:

1. Open "C:\Program Files\Amazon\Ec2ConfigService\Settings\DnsSuffixSettings.xml"
2. Remove the extra </RegionMapping> tag from line 34
3. Open "C:\Program Files\Amazon\Ec2ConfigService\Settings\config.xml"
4. On line 34, change the state of EC2WindowsActivate plugin from Disabled to Enabled
5. Stop and Start the Ec2Config service
6. Wait couple minutes and then run slui.exe to verify Windows is activated (for core installation use "slmgr.vbs /dli")

SELECT
   ORDINAL_POSITION
  ,COLUMN_NAME
  ,DATA_TYPE
  ,CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH
  ,IS_NULLABLE
  ,COLUMN_DEFAULT
FROM
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE
  TABLE_NAME = '<your table>'
ORDER BY
  ORDINAL_POSITION ASC; 

thanks to the original poster.

Below the PowerShell Script I used

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo') | Out-Null
$serverInstance = "."

$server = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') $serverInstance

$jobs = $server.JobServer.Jobs | where-object {$_.category -eq "[your category]"}

if ($jobs -ne $null)
{

ForEach ( $job in $jobs )
{
$FileName = "d:\backup\SQLjobs\" + $job.Name + ".sql"
$job.Script() | Out-File -filepath $FileName
}
}

As a project of my own to get to learn PowerShell more, I decided to make a PowerShell Function which would give me the current IP Address. As I went along, I added an extra feature which displayed my current external IP Address.

Below is the PowerShell Function:

Function GetMyIP
{
$NetworkAdapter = gwmi win32_networkadapterconfiguration | where {$_.DHCPEnabled -and $_.DNSDomain -ne $null}
$SourcePage = "href="http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp">http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp"
$WebClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$ExternalIP = $WebClient.downloadString($SourcePage)

Write-host "IP Address IPV4: "$networkadapter.IPAddress[0]
Write-host "IP Address IPV6: "$networkadapter.IPAddress[1]
Write-host "Gateway Address:" $Networkadapter.DefaultIpGateway
write-host "External IP Address:" $ExternalIP
}

I downloaded the ISO and tried to install it as a Virtual Machine (vmware workstation 8 because vmware v7.1 gave me an error).
During initial startup for install I received the following error:

Windows cannot read the <ProductKey> setting from the unattend answer file

This is because of the fact that VMware is mounting an floppy disk with an autoinst.flp file.

Just disconnect your floppy drive and try again.

get-wmiobject win32_service | where-object {$_.StartMode -eq ‘Disabled’} | `
foreach-object {set-service $_.Name -StartupType Manual}

The solution was found here: http://bertvanvreumingen.blogspot.com/2010/11/performance-counter-registry-hive.html

In short:

• export the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009
• Edit the registry file you just created and change the value 009 to 013, resulting in:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\013
• Merge the registry file and re-run the “setup support rules”