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From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:46 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Help with /regserver
Hehe...I doubt anyone has worked with it, it's a horrible car
wreck of an application called Universal Housing marketed by
a company called Civica. Their own support teams are useless,
and because we have a virtual Citrix farm with AppSense and
mandatory profiles, they just blame our environment for any
problems they can't solve.
According to them, the switch "registers uhm.exe so that w2
bof can access it". When I pressed them to explain this
gobbledegook further, I was met with a wall of silence which
is continuing now. One of their top consultants was on site
yesterday and after looking at the error helpfully concluded
that he wasn't a Windows guy. This pathetic lack of support
is the reason I threw it out on the list in the hope that the
/regserver switch did something generic that I could track to
a registry key or file.
I truly hate this software. Some of their report fields are
called From and To which stop reports from running because I
think they correspond to SQL commands....I've worked with
some rubbish, but this could be one of the worst.
Happy days!
2009/8/18 Christopher Bodnar<[email protected]>
It could be doing anything. Switches are hard coded in
the application. The developers can create any switches they
want, to do anything, and call them whatever they please. You
should really ask the application vendor what the switches do.
What is the application? Maybe someone on the list is
familiar with it, and can give some advice.
Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 610-807-6459
Fax: 610-807-6003
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Help with /regserver
Hi guys / gals
I have a (POS) application that, unsurprisingly, is
vital to our business. The company that manufacture said app
have decided that they need to use a special executable to
run it, which keeps the version updated. It's a FoxPro app
(blech) and for some reason, when they run it, the first
thing it does is call the main executable with the /regserver
switch. I'm not sure what this does, and would appreciate it
if someone could educate me, because unless you run it with
admin rights (which ain't happening on my watch), the thing
fails with the error "Visual FoxPro could not start. Could
not load resources". Running with admin rights - all OK.
I've been looking at process monitor output all
afternoon and can't work out what it's doing, I've been
messing about with registry permissions and file permissions
for what seems like an eternity. The great Google-God appears
short on inspiration (for me, anyway). Can anyone tell me
what this mysterious /regserver switch does, as I am sure
something in our mandatory profile is preventing it from executing?
As always, thanks gratefully provided in advance.
JRR
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