I'd love to help my career path never took me down the Win32 C++ route. I did ANSI C on Solaris for awhile in the mid 1990's and then moved onto RAD languages like PowerBuilder, VB, Delphi and then C#.
At my day job in mid-tier engineering (The Home Depot) my "production" is all server 2008 R2 so I use C#/DTF custom actions with impuginty. ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 4:00 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>, chr...@iswix.com Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Add Domain Group to Local Group Didn't know the User element could find groups. That's probably some accidental side effect. Creating groups is another thing that would be nice if someone implemented. Rollback on it is really, really hard, IIRC. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com> wrote: FWIW, I'd consider a doco note saying that it can find groups to be good enough. What I've actually needed even more in the past was the ability to create groups. The Group element has a note saying that it can't create groups. I've always resorted to custom actions to do this. ---------------------------------------- From: "Christopher Painter" <chr...@iswix.com> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 11:28 AM To: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com>, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Add Domain Group to Local Group It seems that despite being called the util:User element that it was actually able to locate an ActiveDirectory Group. I just left many of the attributes blank and told it to not create or update the user. I don't have the C++ chops to extend these but there is another thread about creating interfaces for DTF classes to enable unit test mocking. I'd be willing to contribute that if you would like. ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 11:17 AM To: chr...@iswix.com, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Add Domain Group to Local Group That's all that is supported today. It would be fantastic if you wanted to contribute the code to do more. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com> wrote: I work in an enterprise environment and I have a request to add an Active Directory Group to a Local Group. Problem is I see the util::GroupRef element only allows util::User as a parent and not util::Group as a parent. I'd like to be able to run this MSI through SCCM and pass Domain/Name in as secure custom properties and use them as formatted attributes in the Group Element. Does anyone know why this is? I'm sure I can write a DTF custom action but I'm trying not to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
