Thanks Peter! My intention is to prevent the install of per-machine msi until
the user uninstalls his per-user installation. Thanks for the pointers into MSI
API. I will take a look into that. Best,Martin> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:01:00
+0100
> From: pshirtcli...@sdl.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] major upgrade from per-client to per-machine install
>
> Which per-user one ? There could be multiple per-user installations on a
> machine.
> You'd have to be an admin to detect the per-user installation of another
> user. The other users might not be too happy if someone came along and
> removed their installation if it had some user-specific
> configuration/customisations that weren't carried over to the new per-machine
> installation. It sounds like the kind of thing that ought to be sorted out
> manually, rather than automatically.
>
> That said, if your environment means this kind of thing would be ok, then you
> can enumerate per-user installations with the MSI API call
> MsiEnumProductsEx() (or DTF equivalent, if there is one) and passing the
> appropriate context arguments. This would only detect that such products
> exist. MsiConfigureProductEx could then be used to remove them but I wouldn't
> do this in an installer... maybe as part of a chainer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Kulov [mailto:mar...@kulov.net]
> Sent: 13 October 2011 10:47
> To: wix-users
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] major upgrade from per-client to per-machine install
>
>
> Hi everyone, Is there a way to detect per-user installation and so that
> per-machine install is prevented unless the per-user one is uninstalled
> first? Thank you,
>
> Martin Kulov
> > From: mar...@kulov.net
> > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:01:23 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] major upgrade from per-client to per-machine
> install
> >
> >
> > Thanks Rob, Is there a way to detect this situation and prevent the per
> machine installation in such case? Thanks,Martin > From: r...@robmensching.com
> > > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:56:50 -0700
> > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] major upgrade from per-client to per-machine
> install
> > >
> > > Sadly, Windows Installer doesn't support that.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Martin Kulov <mar...@kulov.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi, (moving this to a new thread) I have an existing MSI that needs to
> be
> > > > MajorUpgrade'd from per client to per machine installation.Right now
> > > > installing the latest bits results in two versions of the program being
> > > > installed side by side.This does not work for at all. How can I remove
> the
> > > > existing per-user installation during MajorUpgrade so that the new
> > > > per-machine installation can be installed instead? Thanks a lot!Martin
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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