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Comment on Windows Installer 4.5 Released! by kostas

kostas — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:50:22 +0000

Hi,
how could I insert windows installer 4.5 in installshield 2008 ?

Comment on How to design msi packages for Windows Vista? by Amiyah

Amiyah — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:29:20 +0000

Really great blog post. It was very well written and thought out, Thanks

Comment on How to design msi packages for Windows Vista? by order fulfillment center

order fulfillment center — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:25:12 +0000

Great blog. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next!

Comment on Making Sense of ICE Validation! by Joe Clarke

Joe Clarke — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:55:53 +0000

I’ve been involved in a discussion about ICE33 on the appdeploy forums. Would you mind reading through it and either posting up or consider writing something specifically for ICE33? Thanks much!!

http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=50304

Comment on Setting MSI Properties via vbscript Custom Actions by dg

dg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:38:04 +0000

great info. exactly what i needed.

Comment on Setting MSI Properties via vbscript Custom Actions by Ganesh

Ganesh — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:01:47 +0000

Thanks for your comments,
But how to install my SQL Express in Installshield
because some point end user details to store and create the details
for example SQL user name and DB path

Comment on How to design msi packages for Windows Vista? by nhundal

nhundal — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:40:12 +0000

If you normaly perform a silent installation, the UAC Prompt will not appear and thus the installer will not get any privielges to install. This will cause your installation to fail. So the only way to run the installer silently is by assigning it to the system through Group Policy (AD)or some other distribution tool such as SMS or Tivoli.

I would not recommend rebooting from within your installer. Instead, it is recommended that you install your product and the system files (if these are protected by Windows Resource protection, they will not install) together and trigger a reboot at the end. In Windows Vista, the msi engine uses Restart Manager to perform a reboot if it encounters a locked file. In other words if a restart is not needed, it will not be triggered. You can however force a reboot if you want to.

Comment on How to design msi packages for Windows Vista? by tshepherd

tshepherd — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:48:37 +0000

When you say “Elevation prompt is not displayed during a silent installation or upgrade.” does this mean that actions requiring elevation do not prompt the user? Or does it mean that anything requiring elevation fails outright?

I have an installer situation in which I need to install some system files, reboot, then install our product. Is there a way to perform this with only an initial UAC prompt, but no prompt after a reboot? We’ve tried using the HKLM\RunOnce key, however the Windows UI does not display until after the installation completes (we would like it to appear). Using HKCU\RunOnce allows the UI to appear, but poses an additional UAC prompt.

Comment on How to design msi packages for Windows Vista? by tshepherd

tshepherd — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:37:38 +0000

When you say “Elevation prompt is not displayed during a silent installation or upgrade.” does this mean that silent installations automatically elevate? Or that a silent install requiring elevated privileges will always fail?

I have a situation in which our installer updates system files, reboots, and then installs our application files and registers certain DLLs (also requiring elevation). Is there a way to have our installation continue after reboot without an additional UAC prompt?