Apparently your MSI needs admin privilege to install, since you need
admin rights to install it silently, and I'm guessing that on UAC
systems in UI mode it gives you the elevation prompt so it will run
elevated. If it tries to do things that require admin rights then it
must be given admin rights. There's no exemption from security rules
just because it's an install. Even if it's a per user install that
attempts to do things that require admin rights it will still fail.
There's no obvious reason why the Visual Studio scenario would have
worked unless the setup has been changed in some way that it now
requires admin rights.
The priority in the setup is to decide whether you want per user or
per system, and per system is usually the correct answer. If this is
just the update scenario where the app is being run by a limited user,
but it needs admin rights to do the update, you could run the MSI from
a separate executable with a requiresAdministrator manifest then an
admin can come along and supply credentials. Or if it's a corporate
type of environment an update can be pushed out to limited users via
admin-blessed group policy.
By default, MSIINSTALLPERUSER doesn't apply to XP.
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Phil Wilson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Dan Blanchard <dblanch...@cuattro.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Moving to VS/TFS 2013 from 2010 so can't use visual studio setup project
> anymore which I am ok with... but having an issue with using WIX, I would
> appreciate some guidance.
>
> Currently we sell complete systems with a non-admin account auto logged in,
> some on Win XP, some on Windows 7, some on Windows 8 Embedded. So we need to
> keep doing it this way.
>
> We have a way to check for new version of app and then runs it in passive
> mode from command line, like this:
>
> msiexec /i {PathToMsi} /passive /quiet /norestart /L*V
> "install_log_passive.txt"
>
> However we are getting errors which are only happening when it's run in
> passive mode (without the UI). It works If we run it with UI (without
> /passive option), OR running in passive mode by right-clicking and choosing
> "Run As Administrator". The error is:
>
> Error 1925. You do not have sufficient privileges to complete this
> installation for all users of the machine. Log on as administrator and then
> retry this installation.
>
> I set ALLUSERS to 2 in the wix project files, but this message appears in the
> log that says it gets set to 1 - does anyone know why this is happening?
>
> PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying ALLUSERS property. Its current value is '2'. Its
> new value: '1'.
>
> I added this to product.wxs by removing installScope from the Package node,
> and put this on the next line within the Package Node:
> <Property Id="ALLUSERS" Value="2" />
>
> I was doing this because of this msdn article:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd408007(v=vs.85).aspx
>
> Attached are the log files. If anyone has some insight into this, I would
> really appreciate it, I really need to get it to work like we have the
> installer working with VS Setup project.
>
> Thank You,
>
> Dan
>
>
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