I don't think you can have the Windows Installer engine report the exit code before it exits back to custom actions in a MSI package before the installation completes.
If you are trying to get information after the installation completes and you have PowerShell v2 available to you then you could try the following command: Get-EventLog -LogName Application -Source MsiInstaller -Newest 20 Obviously, you'll want to modify (or skip entirely) the -Newest parameter to your purposes. To learn more about the Get-EventLog cmdlet run the following: Get-Help -Name Get-EventLog -Full Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Digital Channels Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -----Original Message----- > From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:31 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Get installer final status (return code) from custom > action > > You could write something to monitor or read the Application Event log. > There are MsiInstaller entries created when a product is installed (and I > think > one for failure too). They seem to be event ID 1033, and there's a > ProductCode, result and ProductName in the entry. > > Phil Wilson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elanius [mailto:elani...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:44 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] Get installer final status (return code) from custom > action > > Hi > > I am working on installer of our product and I got another requirement from > my beloved product manager. > > So I need collect some statistic about installer and main problem is get final > return code of installer. It would be simple task if I had some top level > application which calls installer through MsiInstallProduct but I it is not my > case. I managed to add Custom Actions on positions -1, -2 and -3 in > InstallExecuteSequence so I know if installation ends with success, user exit > or some error. > > But I can not obtain last msi error a mean error code which is normally > returner by API function MsiInstallProduc. It have to be stored somewhere > because in this time (sequence -3) is obvious that installer is finishing with > some error. 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