Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine
> ALLUSERS="2" is a valid setting. Yes, ALLUSERS=2 is valid in general, but I'm interested to know why my installer was perfectly happy with it - even when the source file contained: ALLUSERS=1 > As Thorsten said on his reply, don't worry too much about locking that > type of thing down. Thanks to both of you for the advice. I think I'll leave things as is: default to ALLUSERS=1 and if someone is competent enough to change it, hopefully they are also competent enough to deal with the problems that may occur! -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine
If you really care, then author a (type 51) custom action that sets ALLUSERS to 1 so that it doesn't matter if it gets specified on the command line. ALLUSERS=2 is often not what you want because it simply backs off to a per-user install if the user doesn't have enough privilege. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Paul Baker [mailto:paulbak...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:14 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine I have set the Package/@InstallScope attribute in my WiX source file to "perMachine". As I understand things, this sets the ALLUSERS property to 1. This effectively causes my MSI to default to a per-machine installation, but does not entirely prevent per-user installs since ALLUSERS can be overridden on the command line. -- If I only ever want my installer to be used per-machine, is it recommended that I do something to try and prevent users overriding ALLUSERS? I was investigating exactly what I might do and tried to prevent per-user installations with a launch condition on "ALLUSERS=1". I tried: ALLUSERS=1 Unfortunately, this had very little effect. Whilst it prevented installation with ALLUSERS="", if ALLUSERS was set to any value, e.g. ALLUSERS=2, the installation was allowed to continue. Also, it seemed that repair and uninstall were allowed to go ahead no matter what the value of ALLUSERS. -- Why did this condition not work as planned? -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BF (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/legal/default.asp?top_nav_id=77&nav_id=80&prev_id=77. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 7821 3848 or e-mail inet.hqhelpd...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine
ALLUSERS="2" is a valid setting. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367559(VS.85).aspx As Thorsten said on his reply, don't worry too much about locking that type of thing down. If a user is competent enough to mess with your MSI to engineer a per-user installation rather than a per-machine one leave them to their own devices. I'd be surprised to find any sys-admin who'd do per-user installs rather than per-machine & your average user isn't going to know the difference anyway. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the ** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Paul Baker [mailto:paulbak...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 March 2010 05:14 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine I have set the Package/@InstallScope attribute in my WiX source file to "perMachine". As I understand things, this sets the ALLUSERS property to 1. This effectively causes my MSI to default to a per-machine installation, but does not entirely prevent per-user installs since ALLUSERS can be overridden on the command line. -- If I only ever want my installer to be used per-machine, is it recommended that I do something to try and prevent users overriding ALLUSERS? I was investigating exactly what I might do and tried to prevent per-user installations with a launch condition on "ALLUSERS=1". I tried: ALLUSERS=1 Unfortunately, this had very little effect. Whilst it prevented installation with ALLUSERS="", if ALLUSERS was set to any value, e.g. ALLUSERS=2, the installation was allowed to continue. Also, it seemed that repair and uninstall were allowed to go ahead no matter what the value of ALLUSERS. -- Why did this condition not work as planned? -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine
Guten Tag Paul Baker, am Montag, 8. März 2010 um 06:13 schrieben Sie: > -- If I only ever want my installer to be used per-machine, is it > recommended that I do something to try and prevent users overriding > ALLUSERS? I wouldn't spend to much effort in trying to prevent the user from doing things which he knows best of, because it's his system he installs your software on. Just reject support for such an installation method. I always ask myself what problems I really need to solve by building something which prevents the user from doing something with his software. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning AM-SoFT IT-Systeme - Hameln | Potsdam | Leipzig Telefon: Potsdam: 0331-743881-0 E-Mail: tschoen...@am-soft.de Web: http://www.am-soft.de AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Konsumhof 1-5, 14482 Potsdam Amtsgericht Potsdam HRB 21278 P, Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
