Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExisitngProducts and deferred CA

2012-03-29 Thread Rob Mensching
Did you keep the Component Guid stable? What does the log file say about the Component being installed and uninstalled? You want to focus on the Component state. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Meera Jindal wrote: > Thanks for your reply Phil, I had tried that and unfortunately got the > error

Re: [WiX-users] Build WiX Projects via msbuild using TFSPreview Hosted Build Servers

2012-03-29 Thread Heath Stewart
ICE does not seem work correctly on a default, locked-down install of Windows Server 2008 R2 with AppLocker enabled. IIRC, an MSI policy that is locked down on Server also has to be enabled (it's been a while since I had to ge this working on my own machine). On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Chris

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.6 Burn - Automatic Updates could not be paused

2012-03-29 Thread Heath Stewart
Wesley, yes, please attach your log to the bug. Did you author any dependencies for any packages, including your ShellSetup.msi? Was this your own MSI that you built, and not something that Microsoft Update would've affected (i.e., upgraded, patched, etc.)? Or was this something from Microsoft you

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExisitngProducts and deferred CA

2012-03-29 Thread Meera Jindal
Thanks for your reply Phil, I had tried that and unfortunately got the error *"RemoveExistingProducts action sequenced incorrectly"* The sequence which I had tried was PREVIOUSVERSION_AGPM_FOUND I had also tried the following sequence but still got the RemoveExistingProducts error PREVIOUSVE

Re: [WiX-users] Build WiX Projects via msbuild using TFSPreview Hosted Build Servers

2012-03-29 Thread Christopher Painter
I've done more research. I wrote a per-user install that didn't require admin and tried to install it by using an MSBuild Exec task. I got a 1601 error message saying the installer service was unavailable. I also ran sc query msiserver and it didn't say it was disabled. But clearly MSI is l

Re: [WiX-users] Build WiX Projects via msbuild using TFSPreview Hosted Build Servers

2012-03-29 Thread John Cooper
Could it be authority to execute/registration of vbscript? I believe some of those validation tests still have vbs in them, and if it can't run, it's going to fail every time. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r) Shawnee Mission, KS 66227

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Theme

2012-03-29 Thread robert_h_yang
I started tinkering with this, and got something like this to work : Some explanation below : 1. Some theme files can be found in the source under src\ext\BalExtension\wixstdba\Resources 2. I hacked up RtfTheme.[xml|wxl] to come up with my own Mytheme.* -- the schema is

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExisitngProducts and deferred CA

2012-03-29 Thread Wilson, Phil
The other placement of RemoveExistingProducts is in a sequence at the end typically something like: PublishProduct InstallExecute RemoveExistingProducts InstallFinalize So there is room for your deferred CA in that gap between REP and InstallFinalize. Phil W -Original Message- Fro

[WiX-users] RemoveExisitngProducts and deferred CA

2012-03-29 Thread Meera Jindal
Hi Due to KB 905238(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238) I have to schedule RemoveExisitngProducts after InstallFinalize. Hence during upgrade my new product gets installed first and then the old product gets removed. The product which I am working on adds a port rule to the firewall so that t

[WiX-users] Build WiX Projects via msbuild using TFSPreview Hosted Build Servers

2012-03-29 Thread Christopher Painter
I've started playing with Microsoft's new hosted build service and I've come across some issues. The environment is locked down ( the builds don't run with administrative priv ) so you can't install software. While I understand WiX can xcopy deploy to a build envionment, I wanted to also

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service event source

2012-03-29 Thread John H Bergman (XPedient)
The problem I ran into when the installer didn't create the event source was a permission one. If your service has the adequate permissions, the service class can create the eventlog, however, most of my services run at a considerable lower privilege, and so I have to rely on the installer to c

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service event source

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Robison
You know what, I figured it out. That source doesn't have to do with installer at all. I just had to set the service name in code in the ServiceBase class for it to display correctly. Chris On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Chris Robison wrote: > So I have that in there, but the event items still

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service event source

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Robison
So I have that in there, but the event items still show up as Service1 in the event log. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:58 PM, John H Bergman (XPedient) < john.berg...@xpdnt.com> wrote: > I use something like this: > > > > > EventMessageFile='[NETFRAMEWORK40FULLINS

[WiX-users] Wix Burn LogoFile doesn't work on Windows XP

2012-03-29 Thread Wesley Manning
Hi, I create a burn exe and as long as I don't specify a "LogoFile" attribute for the element I have no problems. But when I do add this attribute it works fine on Windows 7 but does not work on Windows XP. On XP the GUI does not even load. In the log I get: [07D8:081C][2012-03-29T12:16:16

[WiX-users] upgrade didn't remove the earlier product from ARP

2012-03-29 Thread Kyle Lee
Using Wix 3.5, my initial MSI package (MyProduct v1.0) contained quite a few features, e.g. MS Word 95/XP/2003/2007/2010, MS Excel 95/XP/2003/2007/2010, MS PowerPoint 95/XP/2003/2007/2010. Their feature level was initially set to 0 but set to 1 if the specific app existed (using AppSearch). In othe

Re: [WiX-users] help: Parameters are not passing to custom actions when push button clicked?

2012-03-29 Thread Christopher Painter
Only deferred custom actions use the CustomActionData class. Immeadiate Custom Actions can access properties directly: var installLocation = session["INSTALLLOCATION"]; Here is what I consider `required` reading on the subject: http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/isnews/200108/index.htm --

[WiX-users] Burn: forceReboot and UI

2012-03-29 Thread Sergey Yukhno
Hello. Can I switch off install dialog after forceReboot? Every time after rebooting I have to set options in the Options dialog. And how to save the options between rebootings? It is possible? Thanks for your help, Sergey --