Unfortunately, no.
You're going to need to redesign your data migration process, possibly
requiring a manual step or separate tool that runs pre or post
install as the user.
Sascha
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Francesc Castells
<fcaste...@dgtexperts.com> wrote:
> Thanks Sascha,
> >From your comment, I studied what is going on in the installer with the
> impersonation, etc...and you'll probably scream here, but the thing is:
>
> 1- The installer is "per machine" and updates a "per user" installation
> (this can't be changed)
> 2- It runs elevated, with admin rights, otherwise it complains that it
> doesn't have rights to modify a specific file
> 3- There are several immediate CA that run in the UI sequence (called by a
> button in a dialog):
> a- Upgrade MSDE to SQL Express calling SQL Express installation package
> b- Import data (this is the one that is failing)
> c- Uninstall the old application calling "msiexec /qb
> /X{<OLD_PRODUCT_CODE>}"
>
> If "b" ran not elevated, it would work, but then the rest of the installer
> doesn't work. The question is: Can I run an installer as Admin and a
> specific CA as the windows logged in user (the initial user before
> elevation)?
> Otherwise, I don't see how I can solve this...
>
> Thanks again for your help,
>
> Francesc
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Sascha Beaumont
> <sascha.beaum...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Most likely your CA is running deferred and with elevated privileges,
>> try setting CustomAction/@Impersonate="true"
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Francesc Castells
>> <fcaste...@dgtexperts.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I have an installer that upgrades an old program and imports the data. To
>> do
>> > that, it opens the old program's config file and gets the path to the
>> data
>> > files (an access .mdb file, for example). The problem is that most of the
>> > times the data was stored in Program Files, so Vista has created a
>> virtual
>> > store to save the modified files.
>> > When the program accesses Program Files, it is redirected by Vista to the
>> > Virtual Store, but when the Custom Action accesses the same folder, it's
>> > actually accessing the Program Files folder. I don't really know how this
>> > VirtualStore business works, but I guess that Vista doesn't "see" the
>> Custom
>> > Action the same way that "sees" the application (regarding user rights or
>> > something).
>> > My questions are:
>> > - Is there any straight forward solution? something I'm missing?
>> > - or should I be looking for some sort of registry search or path
>> > manipulation to find out where the real data is?
>> > - or should I try to find the way of running the CA with the same rights
>> or
>> > something than the application, so Vista does the redirection
>> automatically?
>> >
>> > Any help will be appreciated,
>> >
>> > Francesc
>> >
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