Try using NetworkService (i.e. without the space) and I
think the replaces it with the well known SID which means it is
localised. E.g.:
You may also be able to do something with OSInfo and
WIX_ACCOUNT_NETWORKSERVICE - see help file.
Neil
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MacDiarmid, James D wrote:
>> I'm very new to wix (just discovered it yesterday) and was wondering if
>> anyone could recommend a build layout.
See http://www.joyofsetup.com/2009/01/01/choosing-your-payloads/.
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Thank you Bob.
It is exactly what I needed...
Bob Arnson-6 wrote:
>
> taras wrote:
>> I am trying to invoke CA as early as possible. Ideally on msi startup but
>> on
>> showing the first UI dialog will do.
>>
>>
>>
>
> If you want a custom action to run during the UI, use InstallUISequenc
When UI is in use during installation (UI level is not None), Windows Installer
starts with actions from InstallUISequence table. In case when UI level is set
to None, you still want to schedule custom action in InstallExecuteSequence
table. In that case you may want Execute attribute to be "fi
taras wrote:
> I am trying to invoke CA as early as possible. Ideally on msi startup but on
> showing the first UI dialog will do.
>
>
>
If you want a custom action to run during the UI, use InstallUISequence
instead. Note that it won't run during a silent install.
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Scott Sanders wrote:
> I'm modifying the standard dialogs provided in
> src/ext/UIExtension/wixlib to suit my needs. I notice that the Reset
> button on CustomizeDlg only reverts the user's feature selection in
> the SelectionTree. I would like the Reset button to also revert the
> Location valu
jnewton wrote:
> I have a few components that only contain non-versioned files (i.e. message
> files, fonts). Currently I am using a core DLL that I install as the
> companion file for the files in those components. However, this means that I
> don't have a keypath for these components. I'm not sur
John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies) wrote:
> That did it for me, thanks. BTW, where is this documented, I hunted and
> hunted and could not find it.
>
WiX.chm specifies that the field is formatted; the MSI SDK documents the
Formatted special characters.
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Hi,
I am trying to invoke CA as early as possible. Ideally on msi startup but on
showing the first UI dialog will do.
(NOT
Installed)
The code above executes MyAction after all UI dialogs "finished". I guess
standard action "InstallInitialize" is not good for this.
What would be the
The VersionNT64, Intel64, and Msix64 properties are all imprecisely and
inaccurately worded, which makes it very difficult to work out how to
use them properly. It's a while since I wasted a chunk of time
experimenting to work out what they actually mean, but I'm fairly sure
that Msix64 being defin
Permission Element's parent must be CreateFolder or File. How to change the
permission for existing Folder and/or file?
Thanks
Joseph
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Hi Jeremy!
I solved it this way:
Firstly I define a custom action for 32bit setup routine:
Secondly I call the custom action in the 32bit setup routine whenever it is
called on a 64bit machine:
...
...
To be honest I did not inven
In that case, I can probably use installutil to install my windows service.
Again how can I achieve something like this?
I want to mention the source of the exe to be different than the
[ProgramFilesFolder], some other directory, the value which is set in
[ApplicationDirectory
> From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com]
>
> Before I resort to a CA that tries to call IsWow64Process(), is there
> any other simple way to bail out if attempting to run a 32
> bit installer
> on a Win64 OS? (My product requires the 64 bit installer on a
> 64 bit OS)
Launch conditi
Hi,
I'm modifying the standard dialogs provided in
src/ext/UIExtension/wixlib to suit my needs. I notice that the Reset
button on CustomizeDlg only reverts the user's feature selection in
the SelectionTree. I would like the Reset button to also revert the
Location values for each feature to the
Thanks much. Ick.
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From: John Cooper (Volt) [mailto:a-jc...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 14:42
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT001 error from Light I can't seem to get rid of
Yes. I will do so pro
Switch doesn't exist in WiX v3. The -ust had lots of legacy (almost duplicate)
code in it that wasn't maintained well. It was removed early in WiX v3.
-Original Message-
From: Jim Stout [mailto:jimst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 13:55
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
PermissionEx always understands the "English" names. That might work for you.
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From: Alex Henderson [mailto:bitterco...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 13:35
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] German OS and Network Service Account issue
I
I'm very new to wix (just discovered it yesterday) and was wondering if
anyone could recommend a build layout. What I'm currently doing is
creating a starting msi package with Visual Studio 6.0 installer. My
source files that I'm putting into the build are in a folder tree on
drive d. WiX is in a
Very unscientifically... I have an Explorer window open to the Temp folder. On
a working machine I can see the file being extracted to the temp folder and
then removed after the CA is done. On the broken machine it never shows up in
the folder. However, I installed FileMon on the broken machi
I'm having an issue with a basic installer built with WIX when it's being
used on German versions of Windows XP - the problem is that the Network
Service account is in fact named "Netzwerkdienst" and as such the installer
is failing with the message:
An error occurred while applying security setti
Yes, the -ust switch, but what about WiX v3? We have been using that
exclusively since build 3113. Jim
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Rob Mensching-2 (via Nabble) <
ml-user+58086-232436...@n2.nabble.com
> wrote:
> light.exe in WiX v2 has switch to do that.
>
> -Original Message-
> Fr
Hmm, the doc says that Msix64 is set when running on a 64 bit processor.
What does it mean if I have a 32bit version of Windows running on a
64-bit processor?
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From: Moradi, Ari [mailto:arastoo.mor...@hp.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 4:15 PM
To: General discussio
-2147217900 == DB_E_ERRORSINCOMMAND
oledberr.h
Unfortunately, more detail is not provided.
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From: Eric Latendresse [mailto:elatendre...@optimum-solutions.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 13:21
To: General discussion for Windows In
Properties are not WiX feature, it is an MSI feature. You can find answers on
your questions here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370889(VS.85).aspx
Regards,
Alex
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From: Kiran Challa [mailto:kicha...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:56 PM
T
Yes. I will do so promptly.
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 2:14 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT001 error from Light I can't seem to g
The default MSI SDK Permission element overwrites ACLs. The PermissionEx
element appends ACLs.
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From: Thomas Due [mailto:thomas@scanvaegt.dk]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 23:01
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Setting
Additional info, I am using WIX 3.0.4827.0
With the following:
I didn't get any replies in my e-mail, but noticed there was an actual reply on
the archive.
If anybody could help I would be most appreciative
Thanks,
Adam
From: Adam Eversole
Sent: Friday, Janu
That's often a 404-equivalent. There's usually more info in the server error
log.
Error -2147217900
Cannot open backup device ''.
Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more
details.
Make sure the SQL Server process has permissions to that path
1. Yes. You can open the MSI with Orca and look at the Property table.
2. No.
3. Same as 2. There are a few discussion about how to do this in the archives.
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From: Kiran Challa [mailto:kicha...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:56
To: wix-users@lists
ServiceInstall in MSI doesn't support that scenario. MSI SDK says
ServiceInstall always points at the key path of the Component.
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From: Anupama A [mailto:anupama...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 07:32
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-use
Ug, bug. Can you file this on SourceForge? Should be able to get a fix next
week. Be sure to put it under the "v3.0" Group and "light" Category.
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From: John Cooper (Volt) [mailto:a-jc...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 09:20
To: General discussion for W
heat.exe or one of the other tools out there generates a .wxs file.
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Guettler [mailto:h...@tbz-pariv.de]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 07:44
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Recursive Directory Import
Hi,
how can you include a direc
Not sure that is a failure case. It would need to succeed in the case where a
repair comes a long and wants to put the database back. If it is already
there, no work done. Very similar to the way the Windows Installer behaves for
all other resources.
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From: Erdinch
ServiceInstall is already deferred. See Suggested InstallExecuteSequence
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372038(VS.85).aspx) -
InstallServices standard action is scheduled after InstallInitialize.
I am not sure what you mean by constructing exe path during execution.
ServiceInstall
In article <1233004461998-2220704.p...@n2.nabble.com>,
jballe writes:
>
>
> Richard-45 wrote:
> >
> > I haven't really been following this thread, but this is the standard
> > way of communicating custom table data to deferred CAs. The MSI SDK
> > documentation provides an example of do
I tried to restore the database from a backup file during the initial
install and am getting this error below. Is there WiX log or something
where I can get some more info on how to debug this? Below is my code
and I think this should work. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance
for you help.
I think a LaunchCondition with the property Msix64 will do what you want.
-Ari
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From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 2:49 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Prevent 32 bit MSI in
Richard-45 wrote:
>
> I haven't really been following this thread, but this is the standard
> way of communicating custom table data to deferred CAs. The MSI SDK
> documentation provides an example of doing this for creating user
> accounts.
>
Thank you for answering.
You say that I should n
In article <21662327.p...@talk.nabble.com>,
jballe writes:
> I solved the issue by an immediate customaction scheduled in the ui just
> after writing to the customtable. This custom action creates the
> CustomActionData class and saves it to a public property which can be used
> to schedule
Hi,
I am new to WiX and I am trying to understand some basics. Regarding
'Properties' in WiX:
1. If there is any hardcode value for a Property in a WiX file, when we
compile this Wix file...is this value going to be stored in the MSI database ?
2.If there are any public proper
Not an error, a warning. It tells you exactly what it is doing.
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From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:james.macdiar...@eds.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:24
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Getting a DARK1024 error
I'm using Visual Studio 6
Before I resort to a CA that tries to call IsWow64Process(), is there
any other simple way to bail out if attempting to run a 32 bit installer
on a Win64 OS? (My product requires the 64 bit installer on a 64 bit OS)
Thanks,
Jeremy
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I'm using Visual Studio 6.0 Installer to create a test msi package and
I'm getting the following error when using DARK.EXE to convert it.
dark.exe : warning DARK1024 : Action 'UpdateResources' in sequence
'InstallExecuteSequence' is not a custom action, dialog, supported
standard action, or know
light.exe in WiX v2 has switch to do that.
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From: Jim Stout [mailto:jimst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:50
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Override 'Large Package' in WiX
WiX sets File Sequence and Media LastSequence to i4 to e
WiX sets File Sequence and Media LastSequence to i4 to enable creation of
large msi packages.
Is there anyway to force candle/light to use the standard i2 for these
columns? Exporting and importing idt files is clumsy.
I would like to use WiX to build an updated database for use with patching a
Hi,
I have a database element which should install a database and abort if the
installation fails.
The component is as below.
To test, I already have a database with the same name on the server. So I would
expe
On this run, I was using 3.0.4707.0. Thinking that the latest version might
fix the problem, I've installed 3.0.4923, but I get the same error.
So, then I tried offload things to lit. If if leave off the -bf flag on lit,
it compiles everything into wixlib's just fine (and then I get the
afore
Hi,
how can you include a directory with all sub directories?
I use WiX3.0
Thomas
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I was able to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
Arun Perregattur
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From: Arun Perregatturv [mailto:aperregatt...@napcosecurity.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:15 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] BootStrapper log question
Hi,
Do you know how to detect if WSE 3.0 is installed ? There are plenty of
product codes for WSE 3.0, so a simple registry search to Windows\Uninstall
does not help.
Thanks,
Eitan
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Thanks, I am aware of this. The point I am trying to make is that in my
case, the source of the File element above the ServiceInstall
is not clear at compile time. As I mentioned, I set a property called
[ApplicationDirectory] during execution and this would hold the path
that should be set to ele
I have a few components that only contain non-versioned files (i.e. message
files, fonts). Currently I am using a core DLL that I install as the
companion file for the files in those components. However, this means that I
don't have a keypath for these components. I'm not sure if this is a problem
I added SQL 2008 to BootStrapper and it works on new Install. But when I try to
install on a system that already has SQL 2008 installed, it tries to re-install
again, I can't find where the problem might be Can someone help?
This is the code in package.xml - I have added registry check for SQL S
Just if someone else is reading this thread.
I solved the issue by an immediate customaction scheduled in the ui just
after writing to the customtable. This custom action creates the
CustomActionData class and saves it to a public property which can be used
to schedule the actions in "after Instal
I actually struggled a bit with this as well, I discovered that the
easiest way to do that is:
Apparently the ServiceInstall node references the file node directly
above it.
Thomas Due
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From: Anupama A [mailto:anupama...@gmail.com]
Sent: 26. januar 2009 0
Hi,
I'm placing a .pfx certificate in the binary table and wish to retrieve it
in my deferred custom action dll. From what I read on the forum, I see that
this can be achieved by reading the certificate using immediate custom
action, write it to custom action data(or to a temporary file, which I d
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