Best Practice for the Active Setup StubPath value

by Jeremy Saunders on September 25, 2023

It’s been a best practice for a long time to clear the Active Setup StubPath value per application to avoid the Active Setup processes from running at logon, impacting the user experience. This is a challenge we constantly have with Vendors and packaging teams. But blindly clearing the StubPath value could lead to application issues. So what happens when you need to go back and troubleshoot an issue with an application that may be related to what “should have” run via the Active Setup process. How do you know what the StubPath value was originally set to? Do you record it somewhere?

I’ve been running a script for years over my builds that simply renames the existing StubPath value to StubPath.Backup and time stamps it. This way you can always review what it should be, and make the necessary changes to allow for this. [click to continue…]

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