About a few customizations made to my blog....

Changes the sample MSI scripts WiStream.vbs and WiSubStg.vbs to support patch files (.msp files)....

Describes the contents of a patch, as well as any other Windows Installer file type....

Information about the new NetFxUpdate.exe service....

How to support N and N-1 with the workaround for defining ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT=1....

How to work around the issues with ARP when defining ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT=1....

Explains why major upgrade patches with sequencing information are not allowed....

Information about the Script Repository from the Microsoft TechNet site....

More beautiful photographs from Mt. Rainier....

Reasons for setting ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT to 1 despite the dangers....

Solutions to setup build failures or Crystal Reports load failures....

My one-year anniversary at Microsoft....

How to condition your standard and custom actions to run depending on whether your repairing, or installing or uninstalling a patch....

Using the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT Windows Installer property can leave your Add/Remove Program entries behind....

How to compact your Virtual PC VHD files using the Virtual Disk Precompactor....

The Windows Installer team begins blogging troubleshooting tips generated from the internal discussion alias....

How to decipher an HRESULT....

Working for Microsoft has been a dream since I was very young and now that I'm finally here I love this company even more. I believe in what we're doing and in the ways we help people. I think it's great we have such an energetic CEO , and I love Microsoft...

My review of the book "Threat Modeling" from MS Press by Frank Swiderski and Window Snyder....

How to ensure your managed hosted control loads in newer runtime versions....

Work around INSERT errors when patching rows that already exist in the target....

How to author MSI packages for in-place updates of managed assemblies in the global assembly cache....

How to fix administrative deployment for ia64 and x64 .NET Framework redistributables using a transform....

Avoid deadlocks when tearing down JScript in your script host by calling into the IActiveScriptGarbageCollector implementation....

Raw image formats from some popular digital camera and ditigal SLR manufacturers will be supported in Windows Longhorn....