Current projects at Digital Aerospace Solutions

The last few months have been extremely busy here. We have some exciting projects in the works, including a web site for one of our clients that provides great Private Investigative services, including surveillance, background checks, bug sweeps and counter surveillance, and a host of other services. The owner is Gene Iovino, you can find their new web site at http://www.iovinoips.com.

One of the other great projects that is still being refined is ITrac Web Access, which provides your clients with access to critical case information, including case reports, notes, and video clips. ITrac Web Access is an extension of the ITrac software that provides an easy to use web based interface for your clients and investigators.

ICM problem

One of the Terminal Servers that I manage has a program called ICM installed on it. They called yesterday claiming that the Notes were missing, then this morning when they opened ROs it would completely close.
I logged on and confirmed that it did exactly that. This fix was fairly simple:
1. Log on as an ICM administrator.
2. Click Utilities > Clean up Local Data
3. Click Utilities > Clean up Server Data

ICM makes a backup of the dbf files before it does that repairs, but I am paranoid, so I also saved another copy of them before running this utility. The utility probably just checks the dbf files and re-indexes them.

This did solve the problem (sigh of relief).

Microsoft Access 2003 Runtime on Windows Vista

Isn't Vista proving to be very entertaining? Windows Vista is certainly Genuine Microsoft...Genuine garbage.
I have a client that is running Vista and a program that I developed that runs on MS Access. He installed the runtime version of Access 2003, and every time he opens the application he gets the Windows Installer Dialog: "please wait while windows configures microsoft access 2003 runtime".
When it opens, several errors are logged and then Vista shuts it down.
I tried all the usual Vista things...Turn off UAC, run in compatibility mode, turn off Aero Glass. Tried re-installing several times and with various installations of Office SP2 & SP3. Nothing would make it work, it always gave the "Please wait while windows configures Microsoft Access 2003 Runtime".

I looked in the error log, and found some entries for the msiinstaller:
Detection of product '{901C0409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}', feature 'ProductNonBootFiles' failed during request for component '{22056900-C842-11D1-A0DD-00A0C9054277}'

Also:
The resource 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip\' does not exist.

I tried the resolution for this error:

a.) go to the actual terminal server console
b.) go to start\run command line and key in the following:
regedt32
c.) check the permissions to the following registry keys:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer
System and Admins - Full Control
Everyone- Read


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Comp­o
nents
System and Admins - Full Control
Everyone- Read


HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
System and Admins - Full Control
Everyone- Read


HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip
System and Admins - Full Control
Everyone- Read


HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer
System and Admins - Full Control
Everyone- Read


HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Components
System and Admins - Full Control
Everyone- Read


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes
System and Admins - Full Control
Everyone- Read

After updating the permissions, it worked. Note that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip was completely denied, even to admins, so I had to take ownership of that one and then add permissions to it. Some program must have taken ownership of the key and then locked everyone out.