Re: [WiX-users] starting a service after install, when user is not an admin?

2012-03-20 Thread Christopher Painter
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[WiX-users] starting a service after install, when user is not an admin?

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Combs
I've been asked to write an MSI which installs a service, then starts the service based on a user checkbox after the install finishes (the service starts a Java-based server.) The problem: while the installation process correctly asks for privilege elevation during the install, and does install co

Re: [WiX-users] Starting a service after install

2008-02-16 Thread Bob Arnson
Jaco Pretorius wrote: It works fine if I start the service after install, so I suppose this is the only reason why it wouldn't be able to start. Is there any other way to start a service after install? I had a look at customactions, but I couldn't get it to work. Not that I know of. --

Re: [WiX-users] Starting a service after install

2008-02-14 Thread Bob Arnson
Jaco Pretorius wrote: I am trying to install a very simple service and then start the service. The first part works fine, the latter part fails with the message "Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.". A common cause is that the service has dependencies (e.

[WiX-users] Starting a service after install

2008-02-14 Thread Jaco Pretorius
Hello I am trying to install a very simple service and then start the service. The first part works fine, the latter part fails with the message "Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.". The xml that I am using looks like this: