Having some weird behaviour with installation of the DCA 2.0 but only to some client machines (Windows 7 Enterprise Edition).
On the whole it works but on around 10% of machines it will seemingly install without issue but will always crash during startup.
It seems to be a standard appcrash on launch and has no real clues as to what the problem may be.
Here is the content of the event which logs as an "informational" only
Now DA still works on these machines and they have all successfully pulled DA and DCA GPO objects. We just don't have the nice systray health indicator.
Fault bucket 3888945193, type 5 Event Name: CLR20r3 Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: dcatray.exe P2: 7.1.7601.17932 P3: 503bc36f P4: System.Configuration P5: 2.0.0.0 P6: 51e9fc45 P7: 1a7 P8: 136 P9: IOIBMURHYNRXKW0ZXKYRVFN0BOYYUFOW P10: Attached files: C:\Users\usernameremoved\AppData\Local\Temp\WER886E.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml These files may be available here: C:\Users\usernameremoved\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_dcatray.exe_8ad95c53151b339c477eb5e54346c0da32575_3e7d8ce1 Analysis symbol: Rechecking for solution: 0 Report Id: d26b1ad6-e5ad-11e3-aa52-823db3b6e41e Report Status: 0
I'd appreciate any feedback or clues as to trying to faultfind this...
As it currently stands 2 out of 20 machines in a pilot is no big deal... but long term if we DA enable say 2000 machines that is potentially 200 with the same issue.... assuming the pilot ratio is a true representation of how frequent this particular issue may be.
Its been suggested internally here that the build may be the issue, but 2 of the machines were built side by side from the same image, on one DCA works and on the other it crashes.
Have tried things like running SFC, reinstalling all .NET distros, reinstalling any other C type distros.... verifying latest patch level....
Running out of ideas now....
I can drop a copy of the DCA 2.0 installer log from one of the duff client machines, but I will need to obfuscate that log before uploading... ultimately though it says the installation was successful so may be of no use.
regards
Rob