Phil, thank you for sharing your experience. I would like to keep this thread active until we get a definite answer from the WIX team. Whether it is "You can't enable MSI logging in the current version of WIX but will be available in version x.x" or "This is how you do this ..." - it will still be very helpful.
Thanks, Alec On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Wilson, Phil <phil.wil...@invensys.com> wrote: > You can't set MsiLogFileLocation, as the MSDN docs pretty much say. You can > try to set it but it's ineffective. If you set it in the property table it > just gets overwritten. If you set it with a type 51 it just gets ignored. > > Phil W > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alec Swan [mailto:alecs...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:09 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting MsiLogFileLocation property > > Adam, > > This post indicates that it is possible to set MSI property from WIX: > http://blogs.technet.com/b/alexshev/archive/2009/05/16/from-msi-to-wix-part-23-dll-custom-actions-logging-and-setting-properties.aspx > > If this is true, shouldn't I be able to use this approach to set some > kind of MSI property to force logging and/or configure location of the > log file? > > Enabling logging seems to be a pretty common question on the WIX > forum, can we have WIX team to provide a recommendation on how to do > this? > > Thanks, > > Alec > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Adam Kadzban > <mightyshorta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Alec, >> >> As far as I know, you can't set the log file location inside WIX because >> you need to tell msiexec where to write the log file to before actually >> starting the MSI. You need some sort of bootstrapper that calls msiexec >> with the logging options. I've used IExpress in the past, but I think I'll >> be switching to dotNetInstaller soon. >> >> -Adam >> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:43 AM, John Cooper <jocoo...@jackhenry.com>wrote: >> >>> I've seen the same bugs CP has seen. I've got it set in my installers, >>> but only because CD demands it. Setting it causes a fair number of install >>> failures, particular in install/repair/uninstall cycles. >>> >>> -- >>> John Merryweather Cooper >>> Build & Install Engineer - ESA >>> Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® >>> Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 >>> Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 >>> jocoo...@jackhenry.com >>> www.jackhenry.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Alec Swan [mailto:alecs...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:30 AM >>> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >>> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting MsiLogFileLocation property >>> >>> The following thread implied that the file log location can be set through >>> MsiLogFileLocation property in WIX: >>> >>> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Msi-Logging-td707004.html#a707011 >>> >>> But it sounds like Rob is saying this is not possible. >>> >>> So, how can I reliably enable MSI logging programmatically in WIX code and >>> ideally set the location of the log file? We need to support Windows XP SP2 >>> and higher. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Alec >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com> >>> wrote: >>> > I don't know if this is common knowledge but I don't set the >>> > MsiLogging property anymore. There' s a known bug in Windows 7 where >>> > Explorer / Shell can lose reference to the installer log file location >>> > and it causes the installer to crash out. It can manifest itself on >>> > uninstall which means you are stuck unless you run the uninstall from >>> > the command line passing in an explicit path. >>> > >>> > ---------------------------------------- >>> > >>> > From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> >>> > >>> > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:02 AM >>> > >>> > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." >>> > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> > >>> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting MsiLogFileLocation property >>> > >>> > >>> > I don't think you can set the log file using MsiLogFileLocation. I >>> > think it >>> > >>> > *gets* set to the log file location. You can force your package to >>> > require >>> > >>> > MSI 4.0 by setting the Package/InstallerVersion attribute. >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Alec Swan <alecs...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> >> Hello, >>> > >>> >> >>> > >>> >> I need to enable verbose logging and configure MSI log file location. >>> > >>> >> I am currently doing this by adding the following properties inside >>> >> of >>> > >>> >> my .wxs file: >>> > >>> >> <Wix> >>> > >>> >> <Product> >>> > >>> >> <Property Id="LOGVERBOSE">1</Property> >>> > >>> >> <Property Id="MsiLogFileLocation">x:/WIX/wix-msi.log</Property> >>> > >>> >> ... >>> > >>> >> >>> > >>> >> Is this the right place for these properties? >>> > >>> >> >>> > >>> >> If so, then I am assuming that the reason why they are not taking >>> > >>> >> effect is that the MSI version our Wix project is using is lower than >>> > >>> >> 4.0 and does not support MsiLogFileLocation property. 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