Wednesday 16 February 2011

MDOP – DaRT Crash Analysis Tools

We have a crashing laptop.

We downloaded and installed the latest MDOP so that we can access the Crash Analyzer Tool.

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The Crash Analyzer Wizard requires the Windows Debugger Tools for whatever architecture the tools will be running on (x64 or x86):

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Click the link in the above screen and we are taken here:

Once we have the SDK web install downloaded and running we need only install the needed tools:

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Note that we are also going to download the Redistributable package so that we do not need to go through this process again for the 64-bit platform.

We also need both the 32-bit and 64-bit debugging symbols:

Once downloaded and installed we were able to go ahead and analyze the problematic laptop’s MiniDump files.

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There is a native way to do this with the Windows Debugging Tools, but having the Crash Analyzer Wizard handy makes things a lot simpler for us when it comes to analyzing multiple systems throughout the day.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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