trace64.exe … Where art thou?
When I started deploying Windows 7 64-bit I quickly realized that our trusty log viewer, trace32.exe, did not work in a WinPE 64 bit environment. Makes sense…right? I started looking around to see if there was a 64 bit version of this time-saving tool and I stumbled across Johan Arwidmark’s post here (http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/tabid/70/EntryID/124/language/en-US/Default.aspx) with details on how it was included in the MDT 2010 HealthCare package.
When I tried to download the package from Microsoft I received and nice “Sorry, no results found for: downloads details aspx displaylang en FamilyID cd73a2c5 76c1 48b3 a366 156900bb9493”
A few weeks later I attended MMS 2010 (Microsoft Management Summit 2010) and wanted to see if this tool was available so I went right to the source. I spoke to one of the MDT developers and they confirmed that trace64.exe was in fact a System Center tool and they did not have permission to release it to the public and that is the reason that the MDT 2010 Healthcare package was removed from Microsoft’s download site.
So, you may be able to find this tool if you search the cockles of the Interweb, but it will be scarce until Microsoft officially releases this tool to the IT Pro community.