This might be a result of ever-tightening security. The custom action wants to run the command prompt shell (that will try to open a command prompt window) with the local system account. I would not be surprised if this can't be done any more. It might be related to the session service isolation when non-impersonated custom actions run off the msiexec.exe service process. Does it also fail on Vista? Windows 7?
There might be a WiX extension for what you want to, someone might jump in with that answer. There's also LockPermissions. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Amy Rosewater [mailto:arosewa...@spectrumhr.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:48 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec and Windows Server 2008 UAC Hi All, I have a custom action to run CAQuietExec (using wix v 3.0.5419.0). It is currently set up to run as a deferred custom action with no impersonation. <CustomAction Id="AssignUserPermissionsProperty" Property="ASSIGNUSERCOMMANDPERMISSIONS" Value=""[ICACLSEXEPATH]" "[COMMANDEXEPATH]" /grant [APPLICATIONUSER]:(RX)" /> <CustomAction Id="ASSIGNUSERCOMMANDPERMISSIONS" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="deferred" Impersonate="no" Return="ignore" /> When this custom action runs in Windows Server 2003 everything works great. When it runs in Windows Server 2008 with UAC I get the following error in the log: CAQuietExec: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe: Access is denied. The user running the install at the time is an administrator on the machine. All the information I have found out there on this subject tells me that to get the custom action to run with elevated permissions and avoid this error I need to run deferred with impersonate set to no. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks in advance, Amy Amy Rosewater VanMatre SPECTRUM Human Resource Systems Corporation 707 17th Street Suite 3800 Denver CO, 80202 303.592.3403 arosewa...@spectrumhr.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BF (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/legal/default.asp?top_nav_id=77&nav_id=80&prev_id=77. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 7821 3848 or e-mail inet.hqhelpd...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
