I'm creating an MSI using WiX and was just running some tests to verify that the installation UI sequence is correct for both per-user and per-machine installs, which led me to look at the Privileged flag. I'm using WiX 3.5 on Windows 7, 64-bit. In the log it appears that Privileged is being forced to 1 always. I found various notes on the net about how this was done because people didn't generally use Privileged correctly, and the following post from Bob Arnson from a couple years ago: ===========
Andreas Mertens wrote: > I choose to install for the current user (PerUser), and when the install is > executed, it prompts me for the admin credentials of User A (admin). ??? If > I provide these credentials, the install completes, with the file installed > correctly for the current user. > Before MSI 5.0 on Windows 7, there's no way to do both per-user and per-machine installs from the same package without prompting for elevation: The bit that tells MSI the package is per-user is set on the package and can't be modified during installation. It's also entirely possible that WixUI_Advanced doesn't handle per-user installs correctly; I wrote it originally for the WiX installer, which is per-machine, and never had opportunity to test a real per-user package. > 2) Is there a way to turn this off? We don't want users to be presented > with the prompt to verify admin credentials when doing a PerUser install. > On Vista, that requires two packages, one per-machine and one per-user. -- sig://boBhttp://joyofsetup.com/ ============== What I'm trying to find out is whether this post (from 10/31/09) is still in force (I assume so.) I'm also trying to make sure I understand what it's saying. Am I correct that this means that I now have to offer two different MSIs, one for per-user and one for per-machine installs, if I need to support both? If not (i.e., if I can create a single MSI that really can correctly handle both), what am I supposed to use to decide if the user does or does not actually have admin privileges to install per-machine? What should I be checking to test for admin privileges, if not Privileged? Thanks much for any light you can shed on this! Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
