Thanks, I was afraid of that. I'll look into using
MsiEnumRelatedProducts. Would the correct procedure be to then simply
call:
MsiConfigureProduct(product, INSTALLLEVEL_DEFAULT, INSTALLSTATE_ABSENT)

..in order to uninstall the previous product prior to install?

-Dave Wright

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> Dave Wright wrote:
>> Our application is currently installed as perUser, however we want to
>> switch to perMachine in the next upgrade.
>>
>
> There's no support in MSI to do "cross-context" upgrades. The only way
> to do it is from a bootstrapper/chainer using the MsiEnumRelatedProducts
> function, which works without the knowledge of per-user/per-machine of
> the new package.
>
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