That is a good suggestion, but it requires a solid WAN connection and the pipe to several outlying domains is rather narrow and not always as reliable as I would like, which forced me to go down a different path.
I do appreciate the suggestion about the type 35 CA, I will check that out and look into a CA for the group membership. Thanks David Aragon On Aug 26, 2008, at Aug 26 @ 9:35 AM, Buddell, James wrote: > How about doing an administrative installation? Then clients can do an > install that will run from source. Or do you not have clients for this > app? > > A type 35 CA will let you set INSTALLDIR as required. > > For the group membership check, an early CA (about the same time in > the > sequence as AppSearch) to set a property if the installer is DA, and > then a LaunchCondition to stop the install if they're not. > > Cheers, > James > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > Aragon > Sent: 26 August 2008 17:14 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Domain Install > > yes I agree, and while that may have been its design, I know that if > you > manually point to a network or domain share as the installation > point/directory it works fine. So, maybe my question is better asked > how do I set that network\domain share as the value held by > [INSTALLDIR]? 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