Corporate error reporting

There is a slight smell in a few months ago, when someone notes, Office XP and IE in the error reporting feature for sending a wrong part of the report, part of the memory dump to Microsoft's media.For any who continued to debug a program, this is a very obvious thing, if you actually read the message in the error reporting dialog box, it is very difficult to miss the fact, but there is a valid concern, however.Because the memory dump may include parts of the document you are editing, it may in its confidential information.Office 2007 Pro is so great!

That's why Microsoft created the Corporate Error Reporting (CER), an Office XP Resource Kit, allows you to report these errors to your own server, rather than a Microsoft application.You can also filter out all or part of the concrete by the collapse of the information, then send nothing left to Microsoft.Why is this so?There are two reasons: First, Microsoft focused on the collapse, and may respond to Knowledge Base articles and downloads that can help you resolve these issues for reference.Second, it is good for everyone, Microsoft has a lot of information why the Windows and Windows application crashes, because it gives them ways to improve the product.Do not care?You do not send data.Microsoft Office 2007  is welcomed by the whole world.

CER looks like for internal use and development of the "product of" (I am sorry for blatant marketing term) are mostly an afterthought.Once you get it set up almost like magic, but it can really build up stink.I'm sure I will get it working on my own eventually, but I need a little help from the original Microsoft.Help file has a lot of information in it, but it is quite dense.A crash report server can run on Windows 2000 Server or Windows NT 4 (see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; Amy, as detailed in Q309267).You create a strict definition of a network shared directory structure, then set the policy (see below) to tell customers their error, to that location.The server acts as a wrong message to the transit area.Periodically, you run the Corporate Error Reporting application and load and the error information has been stored in the directory.You see, an information table row, such as the name of the application for each crash - CER called by the barrel - its version, offset crash, and so on.You can report errors to Microsoft, the program itself, they are sent via HTTPS.By setting for all buckets, bucket, or a specific pre-set policy of specific policies, you can limit what information is actually sent.Response, including useful web site, direct access to the CER of the table.The establishment of CER's work in all cases can be very difficult for customers to report the system error, and CER's servers, not Microsoft include the provision of group policy, but it will not be easy, until Windows.NET server.Office XP in a group policy template with the settings in the User Configuration Administrative Templates Microsoft Office XP's Corporate Error Reporting policy (), will direct the Active Directory Client for any reported errors, while the CER server on Office XP,These can be set to domain name policy.(See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; Amy; Q309268 for more details, including registry keys can be used in the policy instead.)In order for an application other than Office XP reports you need Windows XP client.Today, you can set the error reporting policy in the local (Computer Configuration Administrative Templates System Error Reporting), but you can not name them until Windows.NET server solution.The policy of the corresponding registry key seems to be in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Policies Microsoft PCHealth the ErrorReporting DW, but I did not decode them.A little experiment you can come up with, and giving them to customers in 12 different ways.You get the information can be truly useful.Do you want all applications and client systems crash details?With this kind of database, you can tell, for example, the collapse of certain types of hardware in general, some applications you crash, or the proportion of high load, but things do not crash as you want.Do you want to know?Error messages will be users or help desk or call you, so CER's ability to customize their own user information can be useful.The implementation of CER can also act as a gatekeeper of all data, and then select Send to Microsoft or not.