Magic. ;) As I recall you can only have one windows installer transaction active at a time, so I'd guess it monitors the service.
As far as what the OP is trying to accomplish, I'd say it depends on what is being used to deploy. A batch or script can easily be made to wait for the first process to complete with an appropriate exit code before launching the second process. ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Start an install when an Uninstall completes? I KNOW that. :-P That doesn’t define how it knows when one msiexec is complete to know when to start the next one. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Start an install when an Uninstall completes? It utilizes a task sequence. "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote: System Center Configuration Manager. :) No clue how it does it. I would probably look at the registry. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]<mailto:[mailto:sca...@gmail.com]> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Start an install when an Uninstall completes? Anyone scripted this yet? Product 1 is installed. Product 2 needs to be installed. Product 1 has to be uninstalled before Product 2 can be installed. Hoping to roll the MSI /x and MSI /i commands into one script. Does MSIEXEC have some controls for this? Or should I programmatically read the Event Log in a repeating loop until the successful uninstall event is posted. Or maybe scan the HKLM\Sofware***\Uninstall registry to see if Product 1 is still in there? Ideas of what might be the cleanest and most reliable? I feel like I'm missing something very obvious :-\ TIA, Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Sent from Kaiten Mail for Android. Please excuse my brevity. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
