Mark and Manmeet appeared on the .Net show last week. Enjoy: http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/episode.aspx?xml=theshow/en/episode059/manifest.xml Maarten

This week we again had the honor of getting the expert advise of one of the Windows Installer PMs ( here and here ). He mentioned that when uninstalling a signed msi package you still get the scary this-package-is-unsigned dialog. Reason is that the installer...

For some reason it was quite common to use an undocumented (and hence unsupported and we-can-pull-rug-underneath-at-any-time) export from the appwiz.cpl called newlinkhere. This export was removed in Vista. Since this was quite a popular export (live...

Session 0 isolation is not limited to NT services. It also applies to COM+ server applications and COM out-of-process applications running under anything else than the interactive user. So all problems related to services living in a different Terminal...

Of all security changes in Vista, UAC with its spit token and MIC is for obvious reasons getting most attention. But there are a lot of other areas that have been tightened up for security reasons and we keep finding new ones that impact customers. One...

Per-user COM in Vista (where CLSIDs, etc. go under HKCU\Software\Classes instead of HKLM\Software\Classes) behaves different on Vista compared to XP. Actually it does not work at all for full administrators (to be precise, it is actually for any process...

Our team works extensively with ISVs on Vista application compatibility – porting XP applications to Windows Vista. We frequently get the question "How can I launch a program with a filtered token from a program with a full token?" Although there sure...

The recommendation for command line applications is to use requestedExecutionLevel=asInvoker in the manifest. If you would mark your console application as “requireAdministrator” (or “highestAvailable” and you are a member of the administrators group...

In Vista, process creation APIs behave very differently with respect to UAC. If you call CreateProcess() on an executable which is manifested as “RequireAdministrator” or is flagged as an installer by Vista, you will get back an ERROR_ELEVATION_REQUIRED...