Unfortunately when merely querying the system requires elevation you typically have to engage a bootstrapper that is manifested to require elevation to force all of your MSI to run elevated. That, of course, means your removal from ARP will see this CA fail as well, so if you need the CA for removal, repair, or other maintenance operations, you'll need to investigate other possible solutions (including using ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and bootstrapping from your own ARP entry).
-----Original Message----- From: Christian Froehlich [mailto:dafr...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:35 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Custom Actions with elevated privledges Hi All, I have hit a conundrum here. I have an immediate custom action that gets a list of IIS application pools to be displayed in a ComboBox for user selection. Now as this needs to be executed before the user interface is shown, i have made this an immediate custom action. This seems to work fine for IIS 5.1/6. Today i tested this with IIS7 but to my dismay, it requires elevated privileges, something that cannot be done with an immediate action. The solution then is to make it a deferred custom action, however i am given to understand that these can only be scheduled to run in the InstallExecuteSequence? If that is indeed the case, how can i create a custom action that can run before the UI and use elevated privileges? Or is there a better way to get a list of application pools that does not require administrative access? For your information my custom action is written in C# and uses a DirectoryEntry to query the IIS metabase. Any help that could be given would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Christian Froehlich ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
