Re: [WiX-users] SCCM WiX MSI installation succeeds....succeeding patch (MSP) install requires admin elevation for install

2014-04-19 Thread Timothy Fussell
Just to follow up here the easiest solution here is to have SCCM install the app via a batch script. Essentially SCCM just copies the MSI and the batch script (yea for some reason SCCM can't execute PS scripts) to the client machine and executes the script as the logged in user on the client.

Re: [WiX-users] Difference between [#FileId] and [!FileId] reference?

2014-04-19 Thread Phill Hogland
The MSI documentation for 'formatted' strings is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368609(v=vs.85).aspx If a substring of the form [#filekey] is found, it is replaced by the full path of the file, with the value filekey used as a key into the File table. The value of [#filekey] remai

Re: [WiX-users] Preserving install directory on upgrade

2014-04-19 Thread Phil Wilson
The issue to beware of is about per user/per machine. Your search is for a per machine install, which is fine if you know that the previous was per machine and this one is not per user, and cross context would not upgrade anyway. Maybe ideally there would be a registry search option that behaves so