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re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Ganesh. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:17:29 GMT

Cool Chris thanks,I am really looking and hoping to see future versions of ACT [SUA in particular] fully supporting .NET app's in compability testing.

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Chris Jackson — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:57:01 GMT

Hi Ganesh,

I test managed code using SUA all the time - the only thing you lose is the stack traces. Of course, stack traces are a nice thing to have...

Chris

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Ganesh — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:36:48 GMT

Yep , I was talking about getting the proper stack traces in SUA, it would make my life much simpler :).

-Ganesh

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

ABC — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:05:25 GMT

I just want to run the Vbscript using the SUA tool. will this tool capture the UAC related issues as like when we are running the EXE using the SUA tool.

Thanks in advance.

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Chris Jackson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:08:48 GMT

Knock yourself out. Just launch cscript/wscript with the command line argument for your script.

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

ABC — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:52:07 GMT

I am intrested to know abot how many shims are available in this New ACT tool kit version?

How frequently the MS will update the shim database?

If they update it, how will come to know?

Please could updat me.

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

ABC — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:03:59 GMT

In SUA tool......I have seen lot of tabs other than Files & Registries........

So here do we need to resolve the issues for other TABs also.(like Previliges, Name space, objects, Tokens)

Will these TAB's also effect the functionality issues?

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Anthony — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:16:39 GMT

Chris--

I'm glad that Microsoft is continuing development on the ImagingToolkit, but when are they going to provide add wildcard support for the CorrectFilePaths shim?! This would be a most welcome feature, as I'm stuck with an application that uses some old commercial DLLs that try to use the root of C:\ (%systemdrive% or / or \) as a temporary file/buffer area when performing certain operations. We have the original VB 6.0 source code for the custom app but not the commercially licensed (read: close-sourced) DLLs which are supposedly at fault.

The only alternative we have is to write our own third party app to hook the API read/write calls to the root of the drive and only calls that are coming from this one specific process.

Anyway, good work and thank you for maintaining this blog. It's a great supplement to the official MS documentation which in some cases notably lacking in content or clarity.

-A

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Chris Jackson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:22:30 GMT

ABC-

Shims aren't distributed with ACT, they're distributed through Windows. ACT just provides the viewer and the ability to create custom shim databases with what's already there.

We update the shim database via Windows Update - you'll see them as application compatibility updates.

As for SUA, I'd use the Mitigation tool to find fixes for issues that appear in other tabs. Yes, they can absolutely affect functionality, otherwise we wouldn't bother detecting them!

Anthony -

I brought up the issue of lack of wildcard support again today, and I'll forward on your comment as additional evidence of the need. I'm seeing what I can do, and when I can do it...

Thanks,

Chris

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

ABC — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:25:34 GMT

Hi Chris,

Thanks a lot giving answers to all my questions.

I was in a trance like the shims are getting updated with the ACT tool itself. Now I understood it clearly.

coming to SUA tool. SO other tabs also will effect the functionality. But I am not able to understand issues related to other tabs other than Files & registries. How can I remediate it?...do you have any material with it.

Thanks in advance.

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

ABC — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:27:23 GMT

Chrish, How many shims are availabe now?.....If we want to know how can we? do we need to count all the shims by opening CA database?

ABC

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Chris Jackson — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:03:06 GMT

Just open up CompatAdmin and select Compatibility Fixes. We'll tell you the count in the lower left hand corner.

How many there are depends on which OS you're running.

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

ABC — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:40:25 GMT

Chris,

most of the application are remediated using the WINDOWS XP SP2 VERSION LIE shim.

how it is working exactly after applying this shim. I mean to say, like whether this application will treat it is working on the windows-xp platform or whether it is redirecting any of the API calls?

Please can you answer this. I am really interested in knowing this concept.

ABC

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Chris Jackson — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:28:57 GMT

Please open the help file. This shim, among others, is described in detail there.

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Chandan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:20:11 GMT

Hi Chris,

I have a doubt that can we run SUA and ACT simultaneously? Like when ACT DB collector is running and at the same time we are running the application with SUA. will it crash if i ran the SUA and ACT together?

Thanks

Chandan

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Chris Jackson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:30:25 GMT

It shouldn't crashing anything, but since both use API interception only 1 is going to collect any data.

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

jegadesh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:38:34 GMT

Hi Chris,

I am using ACT tool kit 5.0.3(5.0.5428.1080). In ACM, I cannot find WIndows XP SP3 Reports. I can see only Vista SP1 reports and XP SP2 reports. How can i check for issues with XP SP3 ? Is there any version of ACT tool kit that supports XP SP3 ?

I got info about Customer Preview Program (CPP) for Vista SP2. Will we get an updated version of ACT tool kit to check issues with Vista SP3?

And Crish, i like to say that Your team is doing a good job. All the best.

Thanks,

Jegadesh

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

Chris Jackson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:25:29 GMT

Hi Jegadesh,

There aren't any reports specifically for XP SP3, nor am I aware of any plans to add reports for Vista SP2. In hindsight, we probably should have just left it as Windows Vista and Windows XP, and not added SP1 for Windows Vista, because then people believe the label makes a difference. It doesn't. The issues we detect would be the same, your tracking would be the same, etc. The community content could potentially vary, but that's not a big source of data anyway and the value of combining them is probably greater than the value of separating them.

So, I'd just pick the one that is closest to what you want. We're looking into letting you choose a platform you're moving to and only showing that one, or otherwise simplifying the user interface so you no longer have the suggestion that something else should be there but isn't.

HTH,

Chris

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

jegadesh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:28:02 GMT

Hi Chris,

Thanks for taking time to answer. Can we expect a post on Application Compatibility for Windows7 from you :-) ? That will help in taking a decision on moving to Windows Vista or wait for some time and move to Windows7. Will the money spent on making applications compatible with Vista continue with Windows7 or again we have to go through the process of ACT and shimming the application that is already shimmed for Vista.

Thanks,

Jegadesh

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Chris Jackson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:35:20 GMT

Hi Jegadesh,

Yeah, I've started talking about Windows 7 in conferences, but with all of the disclosure restrictions I've been a little nervous about what I say. I should probably give some high level guidance, though, because I now people care about it. I've just been trying to stay out of trouble. :-)

Chris

re: Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)

jegadesh — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:30:00 GMT

I can understand the restrictions. From this source http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Will-Not-Inherent-the-Incompatibility-Issues-of-Vista-88625.shtml can get some idea about Application compatibility in Windows7. Hope the migration is straight and all Vista apps works with windows7 :-)