I haven't played with this much but a workaround would be to carry a 64-bit
executable in your BootstrapperApplication payloads and launch that on
64-bit Windows to launch IIS Manager. Essentially a 64-bit proxy.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Henning Krause <m...@henningkrause.eu>wrote:

> I have created a managed bootstrapper using burn.
>
> At the end of the installation I want to provide the user with the option
> to start the IIS manager. For that I have a link on my UI.
>
> Problem 1: If I just call
> Process.Start(@"%windir%\system32\inetsrv\InetMgr.exe"), it fails because
> it cannot find the file. Since the bootstrapper is running as an x86
> program, the File redirection kicking in, rerouting the call to
> "%windir%\syswow64\inetsrv\InetMgr.exe".
>
> Solution: Either call "%windir%\sysnative\inetsrv\InetMgr.exe or use
> Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection. Though this works, it raises problem 2.
>
> Problem 2: If I bypass the file redirection and call inetmgr.exe without
> using ShellExecute, the process fails stating that it requires elevation.
>
> I have also tried to start the process with ShellExecute  or ShellExecute
> and the verb "runas". Nothing has worked so far.
>
> Has anybody a solution for this?
>
> Kind regards,
> Henning Krause
>
>
>
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