I'm wondering if anyone has found any usefull information on XP SP2 and DEP (in conjunction with XD Bit/ NX Bit) ? I've been trying to track down anything other than the couple of Microsoft docs from their site, and articles written about it from a time period where the feature wasn't even yet supported. I've been seeing extremely inconsistant behavior from this feature, and little to no solid documentation about anything. I'va had Dell GX280's that do and dont' support this feature (Same Bios revision) , IBM M51's that fell into different production dates by a matter of a week that differ on supporting the feature or not. CA Unicenter remote control causes Explorer.exe to crash and pretty much brings down the GX280 when hardware DEP is enabled (with AlwaysOn). When The IBM M51 is set the same way (Without CA Unicenter) , it effectivly cripples the entire desktop (Cannot open IE, Windows Explorer, Control panel, etc etc etc...other 3rd part apps will not launch) CA Unicenter
leaves the system essentially unusable as well (Albeit, resolved with CA RC SP1) Some of the issues are clearly caused by other Apps, but the lack of detail of what is happening in the OS makes troubleshooting difficult at best. In the case of CA, explorer.exe is the affected program. In this situation, you do not add an exclusion to CA, but to explorer.exe, to me , having to take these measures start to make enabling this feature pointless anyway. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with SP2 and DEP? Is there really that much of a reason to enable it? I'm looking at a deployment of SP2 on new DEP enabled equipment for a large install base that has 1500+ custom applications, all of which are already showing their age. The client wants this enabled because it "will make the machines more secure". All I envision is a major mess of application failures.....
leaves the system essentially unusable as well (Albeit, resolved with CA RC SP1) Some of the issues are clearly caused by other Apps, but the lack of detail of what is happening in the OS makes troubleshooting difficult at best. In the case of CA, explorer.exe is the affected program. In this situation, you do not add an exclusion to CA, but to explorer.exe, to me , having to take these measures start to make enabling this feature pointless anyway. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with SP2 and DEP? Is there really that much of a reason to enable it? I'm looking at a deployment of SP2 on new DEP enabled equipment for a large install base that has 1500+ custom applications, all of which are already showing their age. The client wants this enabled because it "will make the machines more secure". All I envision is a major mess of application failures.....
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