Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-23 Thread Christopher Painter
Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me - Original Message From: Blair To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Sun, January 23, 2011 8:34:11 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC I hav

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-23 Thread Blair
toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC Per your link... The issue with Windows Installer 5.0 is that the SeBackupPrivilege permission is missing altogether. It is necessary to add it to the service permission value in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\service

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-22 Thread Andy Clugston
t; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387705(VS.85).aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387705%28VS.85%29.aspx> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Andy Clugston [mailto:clug...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 6:54 AM >> To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-22 Thread Andy Clugston
Original Message- > From: Andy Clugston [mailto:clug...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 6:54 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC > > Phil, I am running Win7 and 5.0 of msiexec is on the

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-22 Thread Blair
taller XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC Phil, I am running Win7 and 5.0 of msiexec is on the system (shipped with it), and I still see the issue. Thanks. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:08 PM, wix user wrote: > Hi Phil, > > How is the WIX support for MSI 4.5 fe

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-22 Thread Andy Clugston
t; > -Original Message- > > From: Andy Clugston [mailto:clug...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:35 PM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC > > > > Well I t

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-21 Thread wix user
kb/942288 > > Phil Wilson > > > -Original Message- > From: Andy Clugston [mailto:clug...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:35 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC > > We

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-21 Thread Wilson, Phil
] Custom Actions & UAC Well I think I have figured out why the issue is occurring. The call that is failing in the custom action is LoadUserProfile(). This needs the SeBackupPrivilege which the windows installers service *does not* have on a UAC-enabled system. Some details: http://blogs.msdn.c

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-20 Thread Andy Clugston
Well I think I have figured out why the issue is occurring. The call that is failing in the custom action is LoadUserProfile(). This needs the SeBackupPrivilege which the windows installers service *does not* have on a UAC-enabled system. Some details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vistacompatteam/arc

[WiX-users] Custom Actions & UAC

2011-01-20 Thread Andy Clugston
Hi Users, I am working on a product that needs to support Windows 7 w/ UAC enabled. The MSI has a few custom actions that perform various configuration items that I would like to keep contained within the MSI/product install. The custom actions are Execute='deferred' with Impersonate='no' and the