Re: [WiX-users] Per-user installation with elevation prompt

2010-09-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:44:51 -0400 Bob Arnson wrote: > InstallScope doesn't support per-user, elevated packages. Just omit > InstallPrivileges (defaults to elevated) and don't set ALLUSERS. Thanks, that's one combination I hadn't thought of trying. When I removed both InstallScope and InstallPr

Re: [WiX-users] Per-user installation with elevation prompt

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 26-Sep-10 17:28, Bruce Cran wrote: > I had hoped that would work, but it doesn't seem to. The combination of > InstallPrivileges="elevated" and InstallScope="perUser" doesn't result > in any elevation prompt (and the "Install" button in the MSI doesn't > have a UAC shield). InstallScope doesn

Re: [WiX-users] Per-user installation with elevation prompt

2010-09-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:13:59 -0400 Bob Arnson wrote: > You need to set Package/@InstallPrivileges to elevated (or leave it > off). Otherwise, WiX marks the package for "real" per-user operation, > which won't ask for elevation and can't write to Program Files. > I had hoped that would work, b

Re: [WiX-users] Per-user installation with elevation prompt

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 24-Sep-10 15:55, Bruce Cran wrote: > which is written using WiX 3.5 but I just get a permission denied error > if I try and do a perUser installation which installs to > ProgramFilesFolder - as I know I should do! As far as I know I can't You need to set Package/@InstallPrivileges to elevate

[WiX-users] Per-user installation with elevation prompt

2010-09-24 Thread Bruce Cran
Hi, I'm trying to do a major upgrade of a product which was installed per-user but which installed files into ProgramFilesFolder. The previous installer was authored using the Visual Studio Deployment project and defaulted to a perUser installation (with the option of installing perMachine) - but