Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Baker
> ALLUSERS="2" is a valid setting. Yes, ALLUSERS=2 is valid in general, but I'm interested to know why my installer was perfectly happy with it - even when the source file contained: ALLUSERS=1 > As Thorsten said on his reply, don't worry too much about locking that > type of thing down. Thanks

Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine

2010-03-08 Thread Wilson, Phil
If you really care, then author a (type 51) custom action that sets ALLUSERS to 1 so that it doesn't matter if it gets specified on the command line. ALLUSERS=2 is often not what you want because it simply backs off to a per-user install if the user doesn't have enough privilege. Phil Wilson

Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine

2010-03-08 Thread Pally Sandher
ALLUSERS="2" is a valid setting. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367559(VS.85).aspx As Thorsten said on his reply, don't worry too much about locking that type of thing down. If a user is competent enough to mess with your MSI to engineer a per-user installation rather than a per-machine

Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine

2010-03-07 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Paul Baker, am Montag, 8. März 2010 um 06:13 schrieben Sie: > -- If I only ever want my installer to be used per-machine, is it > recommended that I do something to try and prevent users overriding > ALLUSERS? I wouldn't spend to much effort in trying to prevent the user from doing thin