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Bob K

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Jun 25, 2008, 5:05:02 PM6/25/08
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A long while back I jumped on the Difxapp bandwagon for installing our
signed File System Filter driver. It seemed to be light years ahead of using
InstallHInfSection().

Well, in going through the whole Certified for Server 2008 exercise, it
turns out that Microsoft frowns on using DifxApp. They require use of
InstallHInfSection for installation of the driver. They would "accept"
difxapp for now but not in the future. I did remind them that they produced
Difxapp and it is in Vista documentation as the recommended method of
installing drivers, but they were not impressed.

I hate to go through the exercise of getting rid of all the difxapp stuff
without some confirimation that MS is really dumping support for it.

Thanks,
Bob


Tim Roberts

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Jun 26, 2008, 1:14:30 AM6/26/08
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"Bob K" <bobk...@community.nospam> wrote:
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>A long while back I jumped on the Difxapp bandwagon for installing our
>signed File System Filter driver. It seemed to be light years ahead of using
>InstallHInfSection().
>
>Well, in going through the whole Certified for Server 2008 exercise, it
>turns out that Microsoft frowns on using DifxApp. They require use of
>InstallHInfSection for installation of the driver. They would "accept"
>difxapp for now but not in the future. I did remind them that they produced
>Difxapp and it is in Vista documentation as the recommended method of
>installing drivers, but they were not impressed.

Who are "they"?
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Tim Roberts, ti...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

Bob K

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Jun 26, 2008, 8:34:33 AM6/26/08
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"They" are ... Microsoft. Go on www.innovateon.com and download the Server
2008 Certification tool and check out the steps on validating that device
drivers are "correctly" installed. No mention of DifxApp and the steps
involved in verifying compliance require InstallHInfSection to be used.


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Bob K

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Jun 26, 2008, 9:09:43 AM6/26/08
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Also, check out this link:

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2418372&SiteID=1

Sounds like there is lots of fighting going on between developement groups.
The question I have is, WHY? They spent a lot of time developing Difxapp and
it is clearly superior, especially in logging. InstallHInfSection returns
VOID! So how can we tell if there was a problem installing the driver?

I have to assume there is some underlying issue with Difxapp that MS doesn't
want to mention. Either that or it is just politics between internal groups.

Bob

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Pavel A.

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Jun 26, 2008, 5:48:43 PM6/26/08
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"InstallHInfSection" way is used for installing non-PnP drivers,
such as filesystem filters.
Basically these drivers can be installed just with "sc create".
It seems that the INF is needed only as a "wrapper" for signing the package.

Regards,
--PA


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