Extending Windows Functions in Win8PE

Hi Script Developers,

I want to extend WINPE to support RemoteApps.
Don't know if it will work.
Therefore I need to implement rundll32.exe's tsworkspace.dll functions.

I use procmon.exe, handle.exe to monitor file and registry settings that are used by Explorer.exe when "RemoteApp and Desktop Connection" is started on a W8 Testmachine.

So the plan is to monitor the things, and then create app script and implement it in Winpe Build process.
(OT: The easier way for me is using dism to mount and copy the files to the wim)

How do you script writers manage to extend features from Windows to Winpe.
What Tools are you using to track resources a Windows Feature or api uses?

best regards

 

Hi Seiba,

regmon and filemon are my favorite tools for tracking what is changed while the program is running. They are from Sysinternals and nowadays a newer tool as merged them both but I still prefer to use the isolated tools.

Dependency walker is quite nice to discover which files are missing as dependencies (static).

Hi Nuno,

thanks for answering, but I saw some missing files in this case.

First of all it is tsworkspace.dll

But when monitoring the changes, you don't see the dependencies to the Windows Side-by-Side assemblies or else.

It is very difficult to track what is needed around.

How do you manage this?

Edited by Seiba, 04 December 2013 - 06:39 PM.

Now I understand a bit better which software you want to run. Have you looked on the forum archives to see what similar talks about this matter have been made?

I've found this article: http://reboot.pro/to...-xp-vista-7etc/

Perhaps a good idea to get in contact with the guys participating on that discussion.

Good luck.

 O thanks,

yes i looked around, but didn't find this.
I will try my luck there ...

But when monitoring the changes, you don't see the dependencies to the Windows Side-by-Side assemblies or else.

You must either run depends inside the PE, or use it options to define, that depends does not look into your OS (that's standard), but into a different directory.

That's the way I usually use: Let depend look into the target directory where the PE is built:

In Depends: Options > Module search order, configure something like:

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Sorry, that has to be setup dependend on your personal config. I cannot give recommendations.

You can save this depends configuration and load back in the next use.

Peter

Hi pscEx,

that's great! I will test this.
I didn't work intensively with depends, yet.
But: This should even work on a 64-bit Host if 32-bit PE is loaded in VM an 32-bit install.wim is mounted on host and is reachable over Network from 32-bit PE.

Why not!

thanks