Either a transform specifically for Win2k installs, or perhaps a Qualified
Component. I've never had reason to use either, but it sounds like this
situation would fit. Links for Qualified Components:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370947(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us
Ran into this problem myself, and ended up writing a whole chunk of code in
a custom action to walk the list of dependencies amongst the services and
restart them in the correct order. Unfortunately, there are some very weird
dependencies amongst services out there and you can never know them all
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I've had a similar problem - our Wise MSIs were previously using
regasm/regsvr32 custom actions to register DLLs. In the switch to WiX
though, I've written a CompilerExtension to get the registration info on
compile and output it into the registry table of the generated MSI. It's
fairly rough still
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