The old issue with "installutil" coming back, and this time for me it is not 
academic - I actually need to get two services rolled out and installed for a 
software package.

I have to make two installers for .NET applications - one installs a system 
service straight, the other installs a system service and a website. The first 
installer may / should possibly not even have a UI (as it is supposed to be 
remote-installed by the server in admin mode, though we possibly leave the UI 
in for manual installation).

Both installers are supposed to only work on Longhorn / Vista and with .NET 3.5 
installed (which I will check). Breaking the uninstall is not really a concern 
for this type of software (though it theoretically could be one, we are willing 
to take that risk and tell people to please reinstall the .net framework should 
something break.

The services need to be set to autostart and run under local system account for 
now, though we think of some more elaborate setup later - point is that the 
silently installed service NEEDS local admin rights, and the other one needs 
domain admin rights, as they both are server remote control software (the local 
install an agent of the server doing certain thigns locally, while the server 
does certain things through the agent, but some directly, like maintenance of 
domain accounts).

Naturally we use VS.NET 2008 for development ;) And Wix 3.0 is planned for the 
setup.

What is the best way in this scenario to get the services installed? 
InstallUtil is still on the "don't use" list? Any good code samples?

I remember hefty discussions about this a long time ago (6-12 months) - now we 
have .NET 3.5, so, has something changed?

Thanks in advance

Thomas Tomiczek
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