More on the Microsoft Vine Diagnostic Tool
When Microsoft unveiled societal networking to the world, as a new service, most computer users were extremely 
excited with the prospect.
Not long after the news was made known, Redmond Company began allowing testers of Microsoft Vine to access and download the Microsoft Vine Diagnostic Tool.
The label tells you exactly what this application was designed to do: harvest diagnostic information on the users’ Microsoft Vine installations.
This Diagnostic Tool is designed to streamline the troubleshooting process associated with resolving eventual Vine-related functionality issues.
According to a Microsoft spokesperson, regarding the Microsoft Vine Diagnostic Tool, “The Vine diagnostic tool (vinediag.hta) collects diagnostic information of your installation of the Microsoft Vine beta, and stores it in a file on your computer. When you are discussing a problem in the Vine beta on the discussion forum, the support team might ask you to run this tool and share the file it creates. The information in the file could help the support team identify the issue and propose a solution,”
According to the Redmond Company, Vine seems to be supported on the Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100, and is also available on Windows Vista and Windows XP.
Dubbed a societal networking service, Vine is not designed in any way to rival existing social networks, (the likes of Twitter or Facebook). Instead, the service should run complementary to the alternative social networks, allowing users to build communities and to stay up-to-date with all the varying information from their contacts.
With Vine, Microsoft is attempting to give social groups a tool designed to help them easily communicate and organize data.
Microsoft Vine Diagnostic Tool is available for download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=856e1576-2047-4e5e-9e87-90ccad3113c8#tm
In order to make use of the Microsoft Vine Diagnostic Tool, you would need to perform the following steps:
- In the Windows Explorer: find the vinediag.hta file
- Double-click the file to start the diagnostic tool.
- The diagnostic tool will start.
- Click the Next button to continue
- Accept the license agreement.
- Click the Start button to start collecting information. (This may take from a few seconds to a couple of minutes to complete).
- When the tool is complete, it will show a message indicating it is done.
- A file named vinediag.xml should now show up in the folder where you started the diagnostic tool.
- Double-click that file to view the information collected.
- You can now share vinediag.xml with the Vine support team
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