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General Information

Release Notes - PC-DCE for Vista V6.0

NEW FEATURES

  • Installation Program
    • The installation program now uses InstallAnywhere for the kit.
    • A new option (Lightweight Kit) is available with the Runtime Client kit. The option will remove certain administration tools and help files from the installation.
      • Full Kit - contains all of the standard PC-DCE Client images and files.
      • Lightweight Kit - contains the Full Kit except for the DCE Director and Visual ACL Editor images and help files. This kit would be used by organizations that limit access of Windows interface tools for end-users.
    • Silent Installation

      The new installer allows creation of an installation response file. The response file is then used to install the kit or kits using a console installaton. This will assist with production deployment of the kit(s).

      First create a response file by bringing up a DOS window, moving to the kit directory, and then invoking the installer with the following command.

      install -r

      Next, complete the installation steps as desired for your environment. When installation completes, the installer will create an installation response file named "installer.properties" in the kit directory.

      When you want to use the response file to perform the installation, place a copy of the installer.properties file into the kit deployment directory along with the install.exe file for the kit. Then install the kit by running the following command:

      install -i silent

  • Adminstration Privilege Required

    Vista User Account Control (UAC) requires that certain operations on the system possess administrator privileges for correct operation. Several PC-DCE images have a built-in requirement for these privileges.

    The following images are affected:

    • Control Panel
      • service_panel.exe
    • Licensing
      • LicenseInst.exe
      • ShowLicense.exe
    • Configuration
      • dce_config.exe
    • Installation
      • Install image
    • Other
      • SysInfo.exe
    • Also, starting and stopping the PC-DCE service

  • Firewall Items

    Firewall rules for DCE servers and clients were added to the installation for DCE images. Separate rules for TCP and UDP allow the end user to further refine the rules if needed.

  • Debug Images

    The debug files are in .pdb format, these have replaced the older .dbg format files.

  • DCE Configuration

    A DCE Custom configuration can now be completed if both the CDS and security server kits are installed and either or both licenses have expired. Prior versions would report several duplicate error dialogs if either license was invalid or missing during the configuration.

REMOVED FEATURES

  • DCE Setup Program Removed

    The dcesetup.exe program has been removed from this release. All DCE configuration must be performed using the PC-DCE configuration program from either the control panel or the menu items.

KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

  • Installation Program
    • The installation program does not properly detect previously loaded kits so server kits can be installed without installing the runtime kit. By using the "Custom" option, you will be able to install the desired additional kits.
    • Administrators must must manually restart DCE services after reinstallation.
    • The installation panel is somewhat limited in space so it does not show the complete kit descriptions.
    • The installer does not properly handle a 1072 condition (delete pending) for removing the DCE service. Usually the condition is fixed after the next reboot. If the problem persists after rebooting then the kit should be reinstalled.
  • Service Panel
    • Starting DCE gives the following message in the event log:

      Application ("C:\Program Files\Entegrity\DCE\bin\dce_service.exe") (PID: 2164) is using Windows
      functionality that is not present in this release of Windows. For obtaining an updated version of
      the application, please, contact the application vendor. The technical information that needs to
      be conveyed to the application vendor is this: "An RPC method has been called on a
      connectionless protocol sequence ncadg_ip_udp. Usage and support of this protocol sequence
      has been deprecated for this release of Windows. For information on the deprecation process,
      please, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=36415." User Action Contact the application
      vendor for updated version of the application.

      This log message does not affect operation of PC-DCE.

    • When selecting PC-DCE from the Control Panel, a dialog may appear stating that the PC-DCE service panel is a legacy control panel item.

      This dialog requests the user to allow permission to run the service panel. The user should select "CONTINUE" so that the service panel will execute.

    • On some systems a dialog comes up that reports an error with executing the Service Panel. The work around is to run service_panel.exe from the bin directory where you installed the PC-DCE kit. If you need to configure PC-DCE then you can run the PC-DCE Configuration Panel from the Start Menu.

      If you encounter this problem, please report the error code displayed in the dialog box to the email provided in your contract.

  • Security server (secd)
    • Due to configuration issues, machines that run the security server must either be in the name service or all cell machines must be able to look up the IP address of the server machine with and without the fully qualified IP name.
    • In addition, machines that run the security server should have a fixed IP address. On machines where the IP address is dynamically assigned and the security server is running, PC-DCE will not start if the IP address changes.