Per machine installation with windows installer initiated UAC prompt accepted
(so the action was running as SYSTEM). I'll ask how much I can share.
Scott Palmer wrote:
Without running msiexec as an Administrator? If you have any code you can
share I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Scott
On T
Without running msiexec as an Administrator? If you have any code you can
share I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Scott
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Blair Murri wrote:
> I’ve done it from a deferred DLL CA using the CreateSymbolicLink() API
> before.
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> Blair
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> From: Scott Palmer
> S
I’ve done it from a deferred DLL CA using the CreateSymbolicLink() API before.
Blair
From: Scott Palmer
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 5:32 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
"runas" seems to be useless for installer purposes.
For one: I can'
"runas" seems to be useless for installer purposes.
For one: I can't have a console window pop up where a user is forced to
enter their password.
Second: It may run as a particular user, but not with *all* of their
privileges, i.e. not as an Administrator.
I'll make it an open challenge.. I've s
On the privilege issue, something that might be relevant: the msiexec
process doesn't have every available privilege, by which I mean they
are really not there, as distinct from privileges that may be there
but are disabled. Somewhere in the docs there is a list of the msiexec
process rights, and i
I don't think there is an extra quote. Are you sure you aren't seeing the
quote closing the XML attribute value? The command line needs quotes as I'm
linking to something in Program Files. While the cmd.exe window was still open
I tried to make a simpler link and got the same message about pr
Interesting... does it not work with removing the quotes from
"[$(var.linkDest)]"' ? btw... I copied your line and there is an extra '
after "[$(var.linkDest)]". I pasted it in notepad and saw it more clear.
Check this out.
http://www.windows7home.net/how-to-create-symbolic-link-in-windows-7/
us
Yes. As far as I can tell my Custom Action is running elevated, but even
at that level there is no privilege to create a symlink. I can't imagine
why.. but that seems to be the case.
Try it yourself... change your command to execute something like
cmd.exe /c mklink /D some_link_name some_direc
Are you using
InstallPrivileges="elevated"
InstallScope="perMachine"/>
in
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Scott Palmer wrote:
> Can someone show me code that can successfully do it?
>
> I tried:
>
>ExeCommand='[SystemFolder]cmd.exe /K mklink /D mylink
Can someone show me code that can successfully do it?
I tried:
$needALinkForThisComp=3
I'm running on Windows 7
The cmd window that pops up (titled: "Administrator:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe") indicates that the System user doesn't have
permission to make a symbolic link (th
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