Re: [WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI

2014-10-23 Thread Phill Hogland
I have both issues figured out, by adding retry/TryAgain processing to CacheAcquireComplete, CacheVerifyComplete, and CachePackageComplete. Thanks for the assistance. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Addressing-download-failures-i

Re: [WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI

2014-10-22 Thread Phill Hogland
I have continued to research this issue (between local network disruptions). While I have done many experiments to try and understand a rare download failure of a 90mb payload cab file, I have focused on Rob's comment about Burn's use of http being reliable 'with retries' (in contrast to BITS). I

Re: [WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI

2014-10-16 Thread Phill Hogland
Thanks, I have been using Fiddler, and have not seen any of the payload download activity. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Addressing-download-failures-in-Burn-driven-MSI-tp7597272p7597332.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list a

Re: [WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI

2014-10-16 Thread Rob Mensching
: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI Thank you for the information. What are the drawbacks or risks of using bits:// protocol? We target Windows 7/WS2008R2 and later with MSI ver 500, using WiX 3.9.1006. I changed the 90 Mb

Re: [WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI

2014-10-15 Thread Phill Hogland
Thank you for the information. What are the drawbacks or risks of using bits:// protocol? We target Windows 7/WS2008R2 and later with MSI ver 500, using WiX 3.9.1006. I changed the 90 Mb cab file to use the bits:// protocol and I have not been able to reproduce the failure in my tests since that

Re: [WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI

2014-10-13 Thread Rob Mensching
...@rimage.com] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 8:33 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI I would appreciate advice on how to make our Burn driven MSI downloads more reliable. I have a Burn/mba driven multiple MSIs (100+), most of

[WiX-users] Addressing download failures in Burn driven MSI

2014-10-13 Thread Phill Hogland
I would appreciate advice on how to make our Burn driven MSI downloads more reliable. I have a Burn/mba driven multiple MSIs (100+), most of which have external cabs. Most testing of this of this setup results in successful installation although one remote tester is reporting a high download fail