Small VPC image - leave AD on
I followed the steps that Jeff Atwood outlined to create a blank VPC image. Having a really small VPC is nice for testing stuff out, especially now that I’m running Vista at home.
My Wix installer creates a new user on the machine that I’ll use as the user for the Monorail web application. While testing the installer out I kept getting an error while creating the user and I naturally assumed it was my (lack of) Wix skills.
Eventually I just tried creating a user through the computer management snap-in and that was failing too. So it wasn’t an issue with my Wix file, but it was still an issue.
Go back to creating a small VPC. I used XPLite to remove a bunch of junk, so I fired that up again to see if I removed something that I shouldn’t have. I did.
Just an FYI to people trying to make small VPCs, don’t remove the “Active Directory” item under the Advanced items. Its less than 100k and its worth it so you don’t have this (and potentially other) issues.
