1)
<DirectoryRef Id="APPLICATIONDIRECTORY">
<Component Id="CustomAction.Install.WiX"
Guid="{5B6CBC69-4EA2-4648-A080-8D2027BAB081}">
<File Id="$(var.CustomAction.Install.WiX.TargetName)"
Source="$(var.CustomAction.Install.WiX.TargetDir)$(var.CustomAction.Inst
all.WiX.TargetName).CA.dll" />
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<CustomAction Id="CAInstall"
FileKey="$(var.CustomAction.Install.WiX.TargetName)"
DllEntry="CAInstall" Execute="commit" />
<CustomAction Id="CAUninstall"
FileKey="$(var.CustomAction.Install.WiX.TargetName)"
DllEntry="CAUninstall" Execute="deferred" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<!-- Run CAInstall after InstallFiles only if the product was not
installed (i.e. do not run on uninstall) -->
<Custom Action="CAInstall" Before="InstallFinalize">NOT
Installed</Custom>
<!-- Run CAInstall after InstallFiles only if the product was
installed (i.e. only run on uninstall) -->
<Custom Action="CAUninstall"
Before="RemoveFiles">Installed</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
2)
<DirectoryRef Id="PYROCAMDIRECTORY">
<Component Id="PyrocamIII"
Guid="21324FF8-D573-4811-A7E8-DB9A58274EAD">
<File
Source="$(var.SolutionDir)..\..\Installations\Source\Pyrocam III Device
Driver 1.1.0.0\InstallII.exe" />
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<CustomAction Id="InstallII"
Directory="PYROCAMDIRECTORY"
ExeCommand="[PYROCAMDIRECTORY]InstallII.exe"
Execute="deferred"
Return="ignore" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="InstallII" After="InstallFiles">NOT
Installed</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="ReenumPyrocam" After="InstallFiles">NOT
Installed</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
3,4) As I said, very annoying and looks unprofessional. The thought is
that there is something wrong with my installation which is why Windows
7 has to ask permission. This is a cause for concern and phone calls.
As a result, my supervisor and salesmen want no messages and no requests
for permission.
5) "You can do all this in a plain MSI you just need to do it properly."
I would if I could. Please explain.
Kurt
-----Original Message-----
From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:40 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC
1 - Post the Custom Action WiX code. Could be a number of things.
2 - See 1.
3 - That's expected behaviour. Windows Installer won't request elevation
until it needs to which is when the InstallExecuteSequence starts (hence
anything needing elevation should be in the InstallExecuteSequence
between InstallInitialize & InstallFinalize). It's never "always
elevated" unless you launch your msi from an elevated process e.g.
command prompt started with "Run as Administrator" or a bootstrapper
which requests elevation through a manifest. If you run your MSI with
basic or no UI you'll see the UAC prompt immediately since there's no
InstallUISequence being run.
4 - see 1 & 2.
Sounds to me like your vdproj is either scheduling stuff correctly or
(more likely) is taking the easy way out & running everything always
fully elevated due to a manifest in its setup.exe. You can do all this
in a plain MSI you just need to do it properly.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@ophir-spiricon.com]
Sent: 09 June 2010 17:54
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC
P.S. I have incorporated the tools in 2-4, without any of these
problems, in our current installation using Visual Studio vdproj.
Surely there is some setting I am missing but have not found yet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@ophir-spiricon.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:23 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] MSI vs Windows 7 UAC
First I need some guidance. I have several problems which all appear
related to dealing with UAC on Windows 7. But they may each require
separate solutions. Should I post these separately?
1) On a Windows 7 computer with the default UAC setting, my installation
appears to be failing because SFXCA fails to extract my custom action to
a temporary directory. The relevant messages I get in the log are:
SFXCA: Extracting custom action to temporary directory: C:\Program
Files\Spiricon\BeamGage
Standard\CustomAction.Install.WiX.CA.dll-9\
SFXCA: Failed to extract to temporary directory. Cabinet error code
11.
CustomAction CAInstall returned actual error code 1603
This message is followed immediately by Rollback messages.
2) We use a program, written many years ago, that calls
CM_Reenumerate_DevNode in order to simulate Find New Hardware.
Originally I thought that this program was causing the install to fail
but I removed it and found the failure described above. When I tried to
just run it, UAC said it needed elevated privileges. When I ran it as
administrator it appeared to execute without error. But, I keep an
error message in the log as if it was not being run at elevated
privileges. I thought deferred custom actions, and Impersonate="no",
were executed with elevated privileges. Any ideas how I can debug this?
3) When I click through the installation dialogs, I always get a UAC
dialog before the actual install starts. I always thought MSI was
elevated and would "just run". My MSI is not (yet) signed. Would this
help?
4) I am using a third tool to install third part drivers. I run this
tool three times. And three times I get a UAC dialog. This is not only
annoying, it looks very unprofessional. This tool is run in a custom
action. Again, I thought deferred custom actions were executed with
elevated privileges.
Please note that I am using WiX v3.0.
TIA!
Kurt Jensen
Senior Software Engineer
Ophir-Spiricon
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