[WiX-users] Installing VB6 COM+ components

All, I really apologize for being a pain on this topic. I've been looking everywhere that I can think of to get some clue and answers to get these components installed but I'm not having any luck at all. I can get them registered using the registry elements and have trimmed out the various par

[WiX-users] Product is unregistered even though uninstall failed?

I rigged one of my MSIs to fail immediately after IntallInitialize (a deferred CA that with impersonate="Yes" is rigged to return an error). I've discovered that the product is unregistered even though no files/folders/reg are removed. Does anyone know why? The last few lines of my log file are

Re: [WiX-users] Question on Patching Mechanism - Patching checks all files copied during installation

One thing that you may try is the following: 1) put all the files that may get deleted inside their own component 2) Do not set any Guid for that component Windows Installer will ignore these files when it comes to patching so you will never be able to upgrade/downgrade them via patching mechani

[WiX-users] RegistryKey: The registry entry is still deleted even if the 'Action' type is 'create'

We use WiX 3.0.4805.0. I needed to implement this requirement: Check the registry HKCR\foo\bar, if it exists then do nothing; if it doesn't exist, then write the registry. So I have these pieces of code:             ...         NOT CHECK_FOOBAR_RE

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to run a program

Thanks Bob! So that means, if I need to run an executable as "asyncNoWait", then I'll have to use a different kind of customaction? If so, do you know what that type of customaction is? Thanks. From: Bob Arnson To: General discussion for Windows Installer X

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service and minor upgrade.

CryptProtectData () has a CRYPTPROTECT_LOCAL_MACHINE flag. "If the CRYPTPROTECT_LOCAL_MACHINE flag is set when the data is encrypted, any user on the computer where the encryption was done can decrypt the data." Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcl

[WiX-users] Need help installing COM+ Application - Getting Error: 0x80070490

All, I really apologize for being a pain on this topic. I've been looking everywhere that I can think of to get some clue and answers to get these components installed but I'm not having any luck at all. I can get them registered using the registry elements and have trimmed out the various par

[WiX-users] AUTO: David Jackson is out of the office (returning 07/13/2009)

I am out of the office until 07/13/2009. I'm on vacation until Monday July 13. Please email Cognos RD Build Engineering Support or for urgent matters contact my team lead Robert Lyonnais or my manager Ben Fowler. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Re: [WiX-users] Environmet

Re: [WiX-users] Environmet Variable Propagation

Sorry, I got a little confused there. Are you saying that, once the install is completed, the environment variable is not set, and that you have to set it manually on the computer properties?If so, then definitely the install is not doing something it's supposed to do. But if the variable is

Re: [WiX-users] Environmet Variable Propagation

Yeah, removing the app's dependency on the environment variable would be the way to go. Unfortunately, that's not an option in this case. The weird thing is if you go look at the environment variables in the control panel and click OK, it does get propagated to subsequent command prompts. So the

[WiX-users] Uninstall and the Restart Manager

Our application installs a Microsoft Exchange agent (Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008). The dll gets loaded by the Exchange Transport Service. I've added a ServiceControl element to stop and start the service which seems to work OK. The problem is that when the application is being uninstalled

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to use Installed property in control condition

So what can I use to check if the product has already been installed? I thought "Installed" was the proper way -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:49 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re

[WiX-users] Creating Shortcut to desktop for an existing file on the filesystem..

Hey Guys, I've been tasked with creating some shortcuts to the desktop when our app installs. Most of these shortcuts belong to our own app and its deployed files but a couple belong to other executables that already exist on the target system (such as Sharepoint Central Admin). For the shortcuts

[WiX-users] WixUI localizations..

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:15:22 +1000, Sascha Beaumont wrote: Sascha, localization is still an open and ongoing process, anybody can join and provide the missing translations. Bye, Gábor --- DEÁK JAHN, Gábor -- Budapest, Hungar

Re: [WiX-users] File: Donot on overwrite new installation { or}donotdelete on uninstall

Yan, that worked. Thanks -Original Message- From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:09 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File: Donot on overwrite new installation { or}donotdelete on uninstall Ca

[WiX-users] Editing a XMLA

Hey, I am having the same problem of Nicolas Bryant: Creating a SQL Analysis Services DB The issue is to edit the XMLA… Edit a xml is ok for me, but in the xmla… Config xml: easy o edit the value But… Xmla: valueOfConString I don’t really know.. Help?! Thanks, Arthur Curvello

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service and minor upgrade.

I looked at this the other day. I admit Im not an encryption expert in any way but DPAPI didnt seem to be appropriate. The DPAPI's encryption seems to be tied to the login of the user, so for a per-machine installation I dont think it would work if the installing and maintaining users were differen

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service and minor upgrade.

You have to keep it yourself. I like using the registry in this case but you are right, you need to encrypt the password. DAPI is a pretty good way to do that. Used to have a CustomAction that would encrypt any given property... don't know what happened to that code. Fiorillo Nicola wrote: > Th

Re: [WiX-users] 32 & 64 bit installers from common WiX source?

Yes. Very sensible. Just keep an eye on the GUIDs for a while until you are sure it all works. John Aldridge wrote: > I asked... > > >> From: John Aldridge [mailto:j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk] >> >> Are there any guidelines for how best to create both a 32 and a 64 bit >> installer from a single