Recently we ran into a dmp where the machine was taking quite a long time to shutdown. Each time the server was rebooted it would seem to hang and then eventually it would go down and come back online. Though are investigation we found that the reg key...

You find yourself in a situation where you may want your app to run with privileges. In this case you want the app the prompt for elevation when its started. You could have the user just alt-click and runas administrator or you can put it in the manifest...

I see this questions come up quite a bit about the interoperability of x86 and x64 domain controllers. Does replication work? Do the tools cross over well? Any gotchas that we should know about? Etc. Well I'm here to tell you that here at Microsoft we...

Here are some things you can do to help troubleshoot the issue. 1) Turn on MSI verbose logging. Easiest way is to just run this (from an elevated cmd prompt of course). msiexec /i your_package.msi /l*vx c:\package.log Then when the package...