This slidedeck was used at the BITPro november monthly UG meet. This session gave a detailed explanation of How the ACT 5.5 tool can be used to mitigate the AppCompat issues. Further, an overview of Windows 7 Core OS changes were also discussed.

1. Windows 7 – Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 Overview

2. Session Outline Topics Covered Points to look at when you are moving to Windows 7 from XP and Vista. Quick Demos of these issues and mitigations Overview of the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 Topics Not Covered Detail coverage of shims and its implementation Creating Custom Shims

3. Windows 7 Builds on Vista Few Changes: Most software that runs on Windows Vista will run on Windows 7 - exceptions will be low level code (AV, Firewall, Imaging, etc). Hardware that runs Windows Vista well will run Windows 7 well. Few Changes: Focus on quality and reliability improvements Deep Changes: New models for security, drivers, deployment, and networking

4. Top Focus Areas coming from Windows XP Operating System Version Changes Standard User / User Account Control (UAC) Windows Resource Protection (WRP) Internet Explorer® Protected Mode Impacts of 64-bit Operating Systems (no 16 bit) Windows Filtering Platform Deprecations/GINA/Session 0 (High Impact/Low Frequency)

5. Top Focus Areas coming from Vista Operating System Version Changes Internet Explorer 8 (Compatibility View, LCIE) Removal of Windows Gallery applications (Windows Mail, Movie Maker, Messenger, Address Book, Photo Gallery) National Language Support (NLS) Sorting Changes File Libraries (they are not folders)

6. Biggest Concern of Application Compatibility*

7. Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5

9. Compatibility evaluation for all of the above

10. Get Vendor Support Statements, Logo data from Compatibility Exchange

11. Recommendations for fixing applications and Websites (Internet Explorer 8)

13. ACT Process

14. DCP Labeling ERP Software Demo Software ERP Software Financial Software Finance Computer Sales Computer Tag: Sales Tag: Finance

15. Data Collection Package (DCP) Internals Installation Agents (Runtime Evaluation) Inventory User Account Control Windows Compatibility Update Compatibility Bucketizer Compressor Uploader

16. collect.exe: DCP Inventory Agent Perhaps the best software inventory tool availablefrom Microsoft Searches: The MSI database MsiEnumComponents API Add/remove programs Registry entries Windows Shell HKLMoftwareicrosoftindowsurrentVersionxplorerhell Folders HKU..oftwareicrosoftindowsurrentVerisonxplorerhell Folders App paths HKLMoftwareicrosoftindowsurrentVersionpp Paths

17. collect.exe: DCP Inventory Agent Searches Path environment variable ExpandEnvironmentStrings API HKU..nvironment File extension handlers HKLMoftwarelasses*hellpenommand HKU..oftwareicrosoftindowsurrentVersionxplorerileExts Run / RunOnce HKLMoftwareicrosoftindowsurrentVersionun HKLMoftwareicrosoftindowsurrentVersionunOnce HKLMoftwareicrosoftindowsurrentVersionunOnceEx

18. ACT 5.5 Data Analysis demo

19. ACT 5.5 Online Sync ACT 5.0 included: Logo certification data Votes from other enterprises ACT 5.5 adds Windows Compatibility Center data We do the research on vendor web sites ACT 5.5 contains complete opt-out Not only do you not share your vote, you don’t share that you even have the app Means you don’t get any data in exchange You can see EXACTLY the data you’re sending up

20. High Level Architecture Compatibility Exchange Desktop Topology Finance HR Europe North America Log Processing Service and DB Internet Data Collection Package/Compatibility Evaluators Application Compatibility Manager Windows Vista Update Windows 7 Inventory Ichiro Greg

21. What is Standard User Analyzer? A tool to help IT Professionals and Developers understand issues preventing an application from running with Standard User privileges Based on Application Verifier

22. SUA Architecture Application AppVerifier Logs XML LuaPriv2 Windows

23. Internet Explorer Compatibility Test Tool Collects web-based compatibility issues for IE7 and IE8 at run-time Key Features: Logs issues silently as you browse through websites using IE7 / IE8 Provides details and links to more information about discovered compatibility issues List of issues detected is reviewed for each release of IE. We currently capture compatibility issues such as MIME Handling Exceptions, ActiveX Blocking, Codepage Sniffing and more.

24. What’s New in ACT 5.5?

25. Application Windows How Shims Work Shimmed Function Import Function Export Function Shim DLL

26. Shims and Layers Application Child Application Shim Layer Windows

27. Demo Windows XP Mode

28. Summing up.. AppCompat is a critical Process Microsoft takes this very seriously Lots of free tools available online to help with developers and IT Pros With all the work and leveraging Windows 7, You will know that, “ THE JUICE IS WORTH THE SQUEEZE !!”

29. References Chris Jackson - http://blogs.msdn.com/cjacks/ AppCompat VRT - www.microsoft.com/springboard Microsoft TechNet - technet.com/appcompat My Technical Blog - http://www.msigeek.com Follow me on Twitter at “msigeek”

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