Xin Liu (Person Consulting) wrote:
How to extract the registration information? I heard there are some
tools which can output a Wix include file containing the registration
information. But regit.exe doesn't provide that functionality.
Take a look at the tallow tool in WiX v2 or heat in Wi
Make sure all customs actions needing administration privileges are run
deferred with the NoImpersonate bit set.
You SHOULD NOT assume client side of your MSI is running with administration
privileges, it is a critical design mistake. Actions needing administration
privileges must be performed b
11:31 AM
To: Xin Liu (Person Consulting)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to force the .msi "run as Administrator"
Xin Liu (Person Consulting) wrote:
Our .msi calls the regit.exe which comes from Visual Studio SDK 2005 during
installation. It is defined i
Xin Liu (Person Consulting) wrote:
Our .msi calls the regit.exe which comes from Visual Studio SDK 2005
during installation. It is defined in custom action.
Regit.exe is not redistributable; you shouldn't be using it to register
packages. Instead, extract the registration information and p
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To: Xin Liu (Person Consulting)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to force the .msi "run as Administrator"
Xin Liu (Person Consulting) wrote:
We have a .msi file built from Wix toolset which calls one of the VS SDK tool.
Please be more explicit. Which tool
ebruary 26, 2007 5:48 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to force the .msi "run as Administrator"
You need to make sure that your bootstrapper has one of the magical
Vista strings within it like "setup" or "install". This will instan
Xin Liu (Person Consulting) wrote:
We have a .msi file built from Wix toolset which calls one of the VS
SDK tool.
Please be more explicit. Which tool? As a custom action or a build-time
tool? Can you show a code fragment?
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You need to make sure that your bootstrapper has one of the magical Vista
strings within it like "setup" or "install". This will instantly elevate
the priveledges within Vista unless it has a corresponding Manifest file
telling it not to.
I get the impression that you're calling the MSI file dir
We have a .msi file built from Wix toolset which calls one of the VS SDK tool.
So if the .msi is ran in Vista, even if you are a member of Administrator
group, it will failed. However, if run it "as Administrator" (Right click
cmd.exe, choose "Run as Administrator", then call the .msi from the c
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