GPO is Group Policy Object. I think that's the right acronym, but anyway larger enterprises don't (for example) install Office on every system by going to each one and installing it. They assign it via group policy and have it install in admin mode even if users are not administrators. This kind of thing:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179214.aspx and this where they talk about config files and the ability to specify license using PIDKEY. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179195.aspx If your customers include enterprises that do that kind of deployment your product will be seen as much better than one that requires visiting each workstation for installation or license key configuration. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:57 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to launch application as Standard User while the installer ran as Admin Thanks Phil. For #1, in the old version of our software, the license key was kept in a common place. In this new version, it's changed. I agree with you for this point. I'll talk to our team to put license key in a common place. It'll make sense to put it in a common place as we support per-machine install. For #2, we could do that. But our QA also argued that "all settings" were saved in admin folder instead of user's local folder. Anyways, I think what our QA wanted is, "run as admin" but launch application "as standard user". I'm not sure if this is possible. Can you tell me if it's possible? Also, what does "GPO" mean? Thanks! ________________________________ From: "Wilson, Phil" <phil.wil...@wonderware.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 3:29:57 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to launch application as Standard User while the installer ran as Admin ..and a couple of things that don't make sense to me: 1. There are always likely to be cases (admin install, over the shoulder, group policy) where somebody else is doing the install on behalf of a user. So what seems odd to me is Brian's comment that the key is in the wrong place because it's in the installing user's profile folder. Why not just install it in some common area in the first place? It's not as if you can't sub-directory the keys for each user in that location if necessary. 2. This sounds like standard data collection, so why not just have the user enter the key in a user sequence dialog, and have MSI put it somewhere on the system for you? Then you're not running programs with the wrong account. Also, if it's an installer property then it also enables silent installs, GPO installs. Have you looked at the PIDKEY property, for example? Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:34 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to launch application as Standard User while the installer ran as Admin Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/rflaming/archive/2006/09/21/765665.aspx You can probably use MSIREALADMINDETECTION to make the AdminUser property behave as you require. Sascha On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:08 AM, little.forest <little.for...@ymail.com> wrote: > Our installer needs Admin right to run. So a "Standard user" has to run the > installer "run as Admin". On the final page of the installer, we have a > "Launch application" option. So the user can check that option and launch the > application. Our application will ask a license key. The user inputs the > license key. But the key will be saved in "C:\Documents and > Settings\Administrator\Application Data" folder. Then the user exits the > application. And run the application again by using the normal "Standard > user" privilege. Then the application will ask the license key again, because > the license key wasn't saved in the right folder such as "C:\Documents and > Settings\JoeSmith\Application Data". > > How to resolve this problem? > > I'm thinking two options: > 1. The user can "run as admin". But the application will be launched by using > "Standard user". This way, the license key input by the user will be saved in > the correct spot, namely, the users setting folder like "C:\Documents and > Settings\JoeSmith\Application Data". But how to do it? > 2. If there is a way that the installer can detect this installation was from > "run as admin", then set a property. Then in the final page's launch > application option, we'll check this property. If it's set then we disable > the "launch application" option. This will stop the user "running the > application as admin" - they don't need to input license key two times. Is > there a way to detect if the installation "run as admin"? > > By the way, we're using the code example from Wix.chm "How To: Run the > Installed Application After Setup" section. > > Thanks in advance. > /Brian > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet > Explorer(r) 8. Optimized for Yahoo! 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