OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA—Everything You Wanted to Know about Progress ® Products on Vista, but Were Afraid to Ask Libor Laubacher Principal Tech Support Engineer

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation2 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  We will cover installation, configuration, known issues and supportability for OpenEdge ®, Sonic ™, DataXtend ® SI, Actional ®, Apama ®, ObjectStore ® and EasyAsk ®  Main focus towards OpenEdge 10.1B and 10.1C Sub product drill down –including WebClient ™ and OpenEdge Management Before we start ….

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation3 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  We will also talk about unsupported configurations and Vista SP1 changes  Goal of this presentation is NOT to advocate Vista, but to make your experience with Progress products on this OS as smooth as possible Before we start …. (cont.) D I S C L A I M E R

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation4 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  What is Vista ?  OpenEdge products  Sonic family  DataXtend SI  Other Progress products Actional, ObjectStore, Apama, EasyAsk  Performance considerations  Windows 2008 Progress products on Vista

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation5 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA What is Vista ?  Next generation of Microsoft ™ OS for desktops Based on Longhorn code  Suitable for modern and zippy HW Slow adoption due to a “hunger” for HW resources and missing drivers  How many of you are Actually running it ? Plan to use it soon, next year … ? Vista basics

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation6 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA What is Vista ?  New UI Different icons in a different places DirectX 10, Aero …  Better security UAC Session isolation  5 editions Home Basic & Premium Business, Enterprise and Ultimate Vista basics (cont.)

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation7 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA What is Vista ?  Enable users to run with standard user rights Protection from altering system & security settings Similar to “sudo” on Linux  Idea is to run most applications with standard rights Should also encourage developers to build applications running with standard rights  Can be disabled Restores XP behavior Vista basics – User Access Control (UAC)

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation8 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA What is Vista ?  New GUI and default theme Needs recent VGAs’ –More memory, better Brings –Dynamic windows, Taskbar thumbnails –Windows Flip + 3D Flip  Acronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective and Open  Most Progress products are Aero compliant Vista basics - Aero

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation9 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  What is Vista ?  OpenEdge products  Sonic family  DataXtend SI  Other Progress products Actional, ObjectStore, Apama, EasyAsk  Performance considerations  Windows 2008 Progress products on Vista

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation10 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products  Supported since 10.1B03 Excluding OpenEdge Management  Supported editions Vista Business, Enterprise & Ultimate Both 32 & 64-bit  UN-supported editions Vista Home & Home Premium OpenEdge – supported versions and editions

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation11 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products  Java ™ os.lang issues Wrong info printed in various logs –AppServer ™, WebSpeed ®, OE Management …  Event viewer changes To avoid dipping out error 5175  ABL sockets changes Issues with TCP_NODELAY and KEEPALIVE and “set-socket-option”  Install Shield changes OpenEdge – 10.1B03+ changes for Vista

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation12 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products  Unified brokers fail to connect to a database started outside the AdminServer Due to Vista “Session isolation” –Services never run in the same session as users’ applications –Way of protection from attacks  Solutions Start a database under the AdminServer Start the AdminServer w/o using Local System account Use client/server OpenEdge – Unified brokers and DB connection

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation13 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products OpenEdge – IIS 7 setup for WebSpeed  IIS server has to be installed  CGI/ISAPI extensions have to be enabled and allowed to be executed  IIS virtual directories configuration scripts webspeed101C

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation14 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products  Progress Explorer members of the Admin group must run it “as admin” does not apply for a standard user  SQL Explorer using same mechanism as PE warning: 10.1A+ GUI SE are no longer supported service name can’t be used w/-S OpenEdge – Progress & SQL Explorer

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation15 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products  OpenEdge Debugger Registry key location changed in 10.1B01+ ProDbgCK key moved from HKLM\Software\Secure to HKLM\SOFTWARE\PSC\Progress  OpenEdge Architect Error “Not licensed to run OE Architect” Several keys under HKLM\SOFTWARE\PSC\Progress had 10.1CÀ instead of 10.1C –Easy to fix, real cause unknown OpenEdge – Debugger and Architect

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation16 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products  WebClient One-click installation requires an elevated privileges to succeed Browser (IE/FF) has to be started with “run as admin”  WebClient application Installation requires “run as admin” elevation to perform all necessary system tasks OpenEdge – WebClient ™ & WebClient application

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation17 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products  Supported since 3.1C 3.1B needed tweaks after install due to java reporting Vista as “Windows NT (unknown)”  Remote monitoring operations require “run as admin” proenv  fmconfig otherwise “serviceException: (error code = ; message = "Access is denied. (5))" OpenEdge – OpenEdge Management

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation18 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA OpenEdge Products  Starting 10.1C (3.1C) OpenEdge product family is Vista compliant OpenEdge only since 10.1B03  Some components still require an elevation to run Progress (SQL) Explorer, WebClient OpenEdge Architect fmconfig OpenEdge – Summary

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation19 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  What is Vista ?  OpenEdge products  Sonic family  DataXtend SI  Other Progress products Actional, ObjectStore, Apama, EasyAsk  Performance considerations  Windows 2008 Progress products on Vista

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation20 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Sonic Family  First supported version 7.6 Primarily ESB and MQ –All Vista editions supported –32-bits only –Installation from “cmd.exe” with “run as admin”  UN-supported Sonic products Sonic XML Server.NET ™ /C/C++/COM clients Sonic – supported versions and editions

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation21 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Sonic Family  For those using 7.5 Installation requires tweaking –Extract the install on a local drive –Set compatibility mode on “setup.bat” to XP –Run cmd.exe “as admin” –Set SUI_JAVA_ARGS=- DSonicExecWizardAction.skipInstall.osvr=true - DSonicExecWizardAction.skipInstall.xsvr=true –Execute ”setup.bat” Again, not supported Sonic – unsupported 7.5 Workbench setup

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation22 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  What is Vista ?  OpenEdge products  Sonic family  DataXtend SI  Other Progress products Actional, ObjectStore, Apama, EasyAsk  Performance considerations  Windows 2008 Progress products on Vista

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation23 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA DataXtend Semantic Integrator  First supported version 8.3 All Vista editions supported Valid for Designer, Engines and SID Model Browser  Running DX SI Workbench requires “run as admin” Only 1 st time to setup a workspace “java.exe” firewall exception Not compatible with Aero scheme DX SI – supported versions and editions

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation24 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA DataXtend Semantic Integrator  Did not use “run as admin” ?  Versions 8.2 & Not supported Installs and works fine as soon as “run as admin” for the 1 st time or with UAC turned off DX SI – supported versions and editions (cont.)

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation25 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  What is Vista ?  OpenEdge products  Sonic family  DataXtend SI  Other Progress products Actional, ObjectStore, Apama, EasyAsk  Performance considerations  Windows 2008 Progress products on Vista

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation26 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Other Progress products  Actional Currently not supported, no immediate plans  ObjectStore First supported version  Apama Currently not supported –(Tentatively) planned for 5.0  EasyAsk Currently not supported, no immediate plans Actional, ObjectStore, Apama, EasyAsk

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation27 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  What is Vista ?  OpenEdge products  Sonic family  DataXtend SI  Other Progress products Actional, ObjectStore, Apama, EasyAsk  Performance considerations  Windows 2008 Progress products on Vista

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation28 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Performance Considerations  Released in March 2008  Brings numerous fixes and improvements Lessen UAC feature MMCSS configuration Battery power saving Faster directory moving  Also blocks some applications Zone Alarm, Trend Internet Security, Novell ZCM agent … Vista SP1 performance improvements

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation29 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Performance Considerations  Multimedia Class Schedule Service (MMCSS) manages CPU and network priorities for multimedia threads  Why does Progress care ? MMCSS may affect network performance configurable since SP1 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile –NetworkThrottlingIndex –SystemResponsiveness Vista SP1 performance improvements (cont.)

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation30 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Agenda  What is Vista ?  OpenEdge products  Sonic family  DataXtend SI  Other Progress products Actional, ObjectStore, Apama, EasyAsk  Performance considerations  Windows 2008 Progress products on Vista

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation31 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Windows 2008  Server version of Vista Based on the same (Longhorn) code Released in Feb ‘08  7 editions Std, Ent, Datacenter (+ w/o Hyper-V) & Web  Feature install “only what you need” install  Hyper-V Virtualization Response to VMware, Xen hypervisor projects Windows 2008 in a nutshell

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation32 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Windows 2008  Windows 2008 OpenEdge 10.1B and 10.1C supported –All 7 editions (32 & 64-bit) –Due to discontinued support of MS JVM, Progress Explorer is broken –Connection to AdminServer on Win2008 has to be initiated from PE on non Win2008 machine  install PE on XP/2003/Vista machine (physical or Hyper-V) Other products under evaluation Progress products on Windows 2008

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation33 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA In Summary  Progress aims to certify new OS as they are released Due to major changes, Vista took longer Win2008 support a month after its release  Knowing common issues leads to as painless deployment as possible  How many of you are going to install, use or test Vista now …. ?

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation34 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA For More Information, go to…  Documentation: P125146, How to configure IIS 7 on Vista for WebSpeed P192625, Netsetup fails on Vista when installing from a Samba share P127817, One-click WebClient installation fails when UAC is enabled OpenEdge 10.1B/10.1C release notes  MMCSS: us/library/ms684247(VS.85).aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ms684247(VS.85).aspx

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation35 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Questions ?

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation36 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA Thank You

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation37 OPS-26: Hasta la VISTA