This is mostly a MSI question and not too WiX specific.
I am porting an old WiX (3.0) installer from XP to Windows 7. The installer
needs to be run as an admin because makes several calls to external programs
that need admin privileges (to register COM objects and such).
Even when I am logged in as an admin, the calls to these external programs are
failing and thus throwing an error at install time in my MSI. If I run an admin
console and launch the MSI, these errors do not happen, since I guess I am more
of an admin then. Googling around says this is a common problem in Win 7 and
Vista and all the fixes seem cludgy (batch files, registry hacks).
So my question is how do I get around this and why is this not a huge
deal/common problem? It seems that any installer that needs admin privileges in
Windows 7 has to go though hoops.
Microsoft presumably has created this situation in an effort to increase
security. So is there a new workflow I am supposed to be following to get the
same thing done?
And/or is there a known workaround for this in WiX?
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