Threads Replies Last Post 4 Pages: 1  2  3  4   Installations to run on VISTA and the ALLUSERS property.... I've read in several places that for installations that run on VISTA, ALLUSERS should be set to 1 and the User Information dialog bypassed on Vista. I just want to examine what I should do in prepping for VISTA. Currently with our installation, if a Standard User tries to install with UAC disabled, the installation fails due to lack of privileges to \Program Files, etc. During the UI, the... 5 13.07.2007 20:01:47 Deploying a single setup.exe file instead of a .msi file Is there a way to provide a single setup.exe file, instead of both the files: setup.exe, and MyApp.msi? I would like to provide my customers over the internet with a file-type they are familiar with - an .exe file, and not with 2 files they have to download or a compressed file they have to mess with. Is there a simple way to do this from within Windows Installer? Maybe an external tool?... 3 12.07.2007 21:19:17 [ANN] New release of Windows Installer (MSI) creation tool - Advanced Installer 5.1 Caphyon LLC is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Installer Professional 5.1, a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and the install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/ XP/Vista operating systems. Windows Installer is a p... 1 12.07.2007 13:29:43 SQL WHERE clause Is it possible to ignore case when using a WHERE clause in an MSI SQL statement? Right now I'm just performing two queries UCase and LCase-ing the values. I thought that the LIKE keyword did this but I can't seem to make this work in windows installer. ... 1 10.07.2007 02:57:40 Windows Installer - Unable to run upgrade All: *** I first want to mention that we are not running software restriction policies in our environment. *** When executing an upgrade MSI file from a computer, I get the following error before the installation process even begins: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation. I receive this prompt logged in as a DOMAIN ADMIN on a Windows XP sp2 machine.... 1 09.07.2007 19:20:04 Non-administrative users can't access MSI file We use the Windows Installer built into Visual Studio 2005 (Setup and Deployment). I have a very basic question which has been haunting me for the past few days. I can't seem to find the answer to it anywhere. We need our install file to install our program to a PC such that all users can use the program. These users do NOT have administrative rights. Here are the steps we've been fol... 4 09.07.2007 16:26:57 Command line arguments for REGCAP.EXE Hi, I have an out-of-proc (.exe) COM server built with VC++ 8 SP1. The component is part of a product im packaging with WiX. Im trying to use RegCap.exe to capture the COM registration info, but I cant get the command line right for an out-of-proc component (I can successfully capture the registry info for COM components packaged as DLLs). Does anybody have any idea what each argument... 1 09.07.2007 10:02:03 .Msm files to .Msi setup I have some Crystal 11 Reports Msm files that I need to install on a users machine. Currently I am getting a 'Invalid TLV record' error on the users machine which indicates that something is not registered correctly or is missing. The VB6 setup has all the CR files that I know of that are needed to run reports, but files could be missing as I could not find a list of the files required b... 1 08.07.2007 17:57:41 Digital Signature Newbie We are planning on or looking into adding a Digital Signature to our .msi, but not quite sure where to turn or where to start. We use Wise for Windows Installer which provides a Digital Signatures view in which Web URL, Descriptive Name, and Time Stamp URL can be entered. There are also browses to the Credentials File (.spc) and the Private Key File (.pvk). Wise mentions VeriSign in its d... 5 05.07.2007 20:48:25 Customizing .MSI (created on Visual Studio 2003) to accept Web Site Hi All, I have a requirement like below. I need to install a web service through setup project which is created in Visual Studio 2003 to a tagetted web site. Not to the default web site. Any Ideas or links. Thanks. ... 2 05.07.2007 19:55:35 Run an executible after install Here's my problem. I have a scenario where we need to update the data client on a number of computers running xp on our domain (oracle stuff). I've written an assembly in dot net 2k5 that will check the version of the client and either remove/install or do an upgrade. The assembly works fine on it's own, but I need to package it so that it runs when the msi is finished installing. We... 2 05.07.2007 19:51:04 Changing value in InstallExecuteSequence Hi, I am newbie to msi technology and I have the following question in InstallExecutesequence. I am editing my existing msi file using orca and want to swap sequence numbers of appsearch and launchcondion actual Appsearch = 400 as sequence number and Launchcondition = 117 I added a new entry in Reglocator, apsearch and launchcondition and swapped the sequence numbers. So... 2 05.07.2007 18:07:42 Create menu in MSI I was wondering if there was any built in feature to create a menu in an MSI or is that dependant on the packaging tool I use? I am using Wininstall LE but I haven't seen any feature to generate a menu. If the MSI doesn't support menus, what tool can I use to create one? Wininstall LE doesn't appear to have that ability. Thanks ... 2 03.07.2007 07:16:08 WinInstall LE 2003 I suppose I won't find much help here for this product but I am hoping there might be other people who are using it and might be able to advise me. I was using custom scripts (vsb, bat, etc) and I finally got my hands on this tool. haven't gotten into MST's yet as I don't have a tool for it unless the app has a custom installer (Adobe does in this case). Great, thought I could package Ac... 1 29.06.2007 15:45:20 GPO and MSI I created a MSI package Using WIN install to be deployed using Group Policy to Laptops that are not always connected to the network. The MSI package installs fine when they restart thier computer when they are connected to the network. Unfortunately when the users log on to thier laptops when they are not connected to the network it won't let them launch the application. This was the fi... 1 29.06.2007 04:20:03 MCI and %TEMP% Hi, I like to move my temp and tmp environment variables from the %UserProfile%\Local\Temp to my partitioned D-Drive\Temp. From here I can occasionally delete all the junk in it. This works well accept on Virtual Machines where I map to a physical D-Drive on the host. The problem I run into is MSI installs always fail when I have my temp on a mapped drive. Any thoughts on how I ... 13 28.06.2007 16:21:43 Can't insert new record I'm trying to add a new record to the Component table. I've tried using a normal INSERT INTO query but can't seem to get the syntax right. I've been trying to use the temp record approach and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I always get an error telling me insert.vbs(25, 1) Msi API Error: Modify,Mode,Record My code looks like: set oMSI = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")... 5 27.06.2007 23:57:19 Need to understand Hello, I am interested in customizing skype.msi for our enterprise necesities, the problem is that I don't understand how can I do for modify the parameters of the registry to secure skype (with orca) because I don't find where I have to touch. Then if I can do the registry modification, I need the possibility to deploy the new package (better with mst?) and when I want uninstall the pac... 3 27.06.2007 14:09:35 Install MSI with admin rights by vbscript Hi! I have the following code to install an app: Set objInstaller = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer") objInstaller.UILevel = 3 + 32 objInstaller.InstallProduct "app.msi" In some machines the user do not have install privileges. Is there any form to install the app in these machines? Thanks. ... 4 26.06.2007 22:42:02 patches failing to reinstall Well i am getting a little further each week it seems! I have created a patch (.msp) file which i want to use for patching, and to make it removable. However i have noticed that if i install, uninstall and reinstall a patch - the patch does not work the second time. It will successfully patch the application the first time, successfully uninstall but then it will not include the files ... 1 26.06.2007 14:00:59 Preventing an MSI being cached at c:\windows\installer My understanding is that when I run an MSI, it gets cached to c: \windows\installer. For security reasons I want to tell msiexec.exe to cache the msi in a separate folder. Is this possible? Thanks. ... 2 26.06.2007 13:07:13 Specific Microsoft Kb How can i approuve specific KB that are not download on microsoft update ? ... 2 22.06.2007 17:24:08 MSP after MSP ? I discover a problem. I created from 3 MSI's 2 MSP's MSI's version 1, 2 and 3 MSP's version 1 to 2 and version 2 to 3 and version 1 to 3 I install MSI version 1 OK I install MSP 1 to 2, OK I install MSP 2 to 3, ERROR, application is still at version 2, I expected it to be on 3 I install MSP 1 to 3, ERROR, application is still at version 2. What can be wrong. During creation of the... 2 21.06.2007 16:43:12 msiexec \a tmp folders am trying to build my own patches at the moment - which involves me decompressing my MSI with msiexec. i use this call in the command line: msiexec /a Navigator.msi /qb TARGETDIR="C:\Documents and Settings \estyles\Desktop\PatchTest\SecondRelease\uncompressed1" which is fine - and it decompresses the files into the specified folder...however it then goes and leave tmp folders on one of t... 7 21.06.2007 12:48:07 Repair wipes out registry entries We have built a deployment package with Visual Studio 2005. The package takes command-line parameters like "DATABASE_SERVER". When the install process runs, the user is prompted with textboxes that are pre-populated with the values of the command-line parameters. If the install package is run without the command-line parameters, the textboxes are, of course, blank. The textbox values are ... 1 15.06.2007 19:54:02 4 Pages: 1  2  3  4