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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:20pm |
Windows Installer 5.0 (Windows 7) introduced several new capabilities for setting permissions. However, it is difficult to find samples of how to configure the new table and even more difficult to learn the permissions syntax (SDDLText) required to configure permissions. The information in this article and a new CSI toolkit utility make this challenging chore into an easy one.
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 3:01pm |
Some problems with how CSI_ListUACVirtRegKeys.vbs determined SIDs and user names were fixed.
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:02am |
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Problem determination can be made more difficult by UAC Virtualization. This is especially true of registry virtualization. Since the VirtualStore registry key is specific to each user, you cannot get a global view of UAC registry key virtualization or even view it for a single user. This script can list UAC virtualizated registry keys for another user or for ALL other users.
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Sunday, September 26, 2010 9:00pm |
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I am an unapologetic WinDbg illiterate. I can’t read it and don’t understand it. My 3 GB, dual-core computer can functionally translate any web page I visit into my native human language – does tracing Windows applications really have to be THIS difficult? Not anymore.
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:59am |
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If you are using internal or external manifests, it can be difficult to diagnose why they do not seem to be working correctly. Sxstrace.exe is a utility built into Windows Vista and later that can diagnose these problems. There is also a registry key that will cause Windows Vista and later to prefer external manifests (just like it is on XP).
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Training Updates and Additions
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:00am |
Our 9/21 offering of ENG-51 is full. We have added two new dates.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Friday, September 3, 2010 4:25pm |
Google is the world's largest sample code repository for any programming or scripting language - but some gems escape the search results page! Here is the location of a treasure chest of slick VBScript code.
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Training Updates and Additions
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:00am |
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We credit you $75 CSI Cash for each day of training you take with us. Use it dollar for dollar to pay for training. It can be used for your next training or gifted to a colleague.
For those of you who are alumni, there are two additional ways to earn CSI Cash. Activate your alumni account and receive a $250 CSI Cash credit. Refer a new customer and receive a $50 CSI Cash credit.
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Training Updates and Additions
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010 3:41pm |
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A new session of Windows 7 Packaging Engineer (ENG-51) has been added for September 21st (9/21) which is just under four weeks away. Special: First 3 seats for $1095. Learn about how Windows 7 affects your packaged applications and what the changes are in Windows Installer 4.0 through 5.0. Get a copy of our Windows Installer Engineering Checklist - THE cheat sheet for changes you can make to your packaging processes now to be ready for Windows 7.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Monday, August 23, 2010 8:20am |
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Most books on software testing are not usable by IT Professionals for testing applications in preparation for a new OS deployment. Usually these books focus on very detailed methodologies that assume the tester is working with a single software application and that they have access to the development team building it. Lessons Learned in Software Testing is different.
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:02am |
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Appendix A of Microsoft's App-V 4.5 Sequencing Guide has 12 pages of screenshots that comprise two of their three best practice configuration steps for a sequencing machine. These steps are good for any type application capture - whether you are doing traditional application packaging or virtualization with any product. We've scripted those steps for you. (WKU2ANAAY3Z6)
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:00am |
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At first Microsoft was planning a new “Guest Mode” in Windows 7 to replace the functionality of the SteadyState toolkit. That feature was dropped from the final product, so if you’ve been using and loving SteadyState on Windows XP, you’re left a little high and dry. There is a free product that is a kind of fusion of SteadyState, System Restore, Backup and VMware virtual disk snapshots (but for real machines)…
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:00am |
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Are you tired of plowing through Windows Installer logs looking for the same old evidence of the same old problems? CSI_GetMSIErrors allows you to build scripts to do that boring stuff! You can even design automated handling of these errors once you are able to grab them with this hand routine.
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:00am |
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If you are running the App-V client in a stand alone mode, you have probably run into some frustrating situations trying to get the MSI to install properly. Worse yet, when the MSI package fails, it does not completely rollback the package addition to the client – so you end up with a half-baked deployment. Let's take a look at the details and then give you some files and transforms that do all the work for you.
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Training Updates and Additions
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Friday, July 9, 2010 12:44pm |
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This is the "online version" of an onsite course. However, it has some very interesting benefits over a traditional onsite delivery.
If you are considering group training, please contact us for a live demonstration of the online environment!
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Training Updates and Additions
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 7:59am |
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When you step out to take technology training you typically have concerns about being able to truly leverage the knowledge and skills you gain.
Our 007 Guarantee addresses these concerns by making sure you can apply your new skills and knowledge to real problems in your production environment.
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CSI Toolkit
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:40pm |
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Windows 7 does not preserve drive letter mappings when a Protected Admin elevates to their full admin token. This can be a pain when triggering elevation from a script that has started from a network mapped drive letter. Here is a simple VBScript function to get around this problem.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Monday, June 14, 2010 2:00am |
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Ever wonder exactly what Windows prefetch is pre-loading with your request to load an application? Now you can use this handy utility to find out.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:55pm |
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AppCompat Toolkit 5.5 has been upgraded to 5.6 and now supports 64bit, includes community voting improvements and web service performance improvements.
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General
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Written by Darwin Sanoy
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 1:25pm |
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Some smart folks at wintellect have collaborated with Mark Russinovich to give you a .NET Assembly that will let your application write to the Process Monitor log!
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