Re: [WiX-users] Multiple netsh commands

2011-03-02 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I've done something like this with the statement. Is that something you can leverage? -Original Message- From: Gregg Swanson [mailto:gregg.swan...@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 7:32 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Multiple netsh commands Hello

Re: [WiX-users] Login failed using User Element, IIS Application pool and SQL Server Login

2011-02-15 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Can I see your element? What are you specifying as the Domain? -Original Message- From: Peter Wilson [mailto:peterwilson...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 7:56 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Login failed using User Element, IIS Application pool

Re: [WiX-users] Are thereanyknownproblems with XPathexpressions in custom action?

2011-02-09 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
ublic/Misc/XMLFil eElepmentPath%5E_repro%5E_errordialog.png To echo what Pierson said, please could someone let us know what we should do when discovering a bug (which we think this is)? Regards Jamie -----Original Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:38 PM To: Gene

Re: [WiX-users] Are there anyknownproblems with XPathexpressions in custom action?

2011-02-09 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
/XMLFil eElepmentPath%5E_repro%5E_errordialog.png To echo what Pierson said, please could someone let us know what we should do when discovering a bug (which we think this is)? Regards Jamie -----Original Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:38 PM To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] IIS Sites and Component Rules

2011-02-09 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Component/@Guid? If so, then that sounds bad and I don't know what behavior the Windows Installer would have (but it won't be defined). On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Pierson Lee (PIE) < pierson@microsoft.com> wrote: > I have an application that contains 5 component

Re: [WiX-users] Are there any known problems with XPathexpressions in custom action?

2011-02-08 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
it works fine. Where do I go to file a bug on this issue? -Original Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) [mailto:pierson@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 1:12 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: General discussion for Windows Installer XML t

Re: [WiX-users] Are there any known problems with XPathexpressions in custom action?

2011-02-08 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
a";> > > > xmlns:SSIS="www.microsoft.com/SqlServer/SSIS"> > > > > SSIS:Name="..\SSIS\GlobalExecutor.dtsx"> > > >

Re: [WiX-users] Are there any known problems with XPath expressions in custom action?

2011-02-08 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> I need to change "Package.dtsx" into "..\SSIS\GlobalExecutor.dtsx" Regards Jamie -Original Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) Sent: Tuesday, Februa

Re: [WiX-users] Are there any known problems with XPath expressions in custom action?

2011-02-08 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Actually I think I know what it is. You need to escape your \ with another \ in your @SSIS:Name= section so it looks like [\[]@SSIS:Name='..\\SSIS\\GlobalExecutor.dtsx'[\]] -Original Message----- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) [mailto:pierson@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, Februar

Re: [WiX-users] Assistance using XmlConfig (assuming that is the correct hammer for this issue)

2011-02-08 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
All you do is you add the 'value' tag to the end of your elementpath and then omit the Name= property and it will make it in as innerText. -Original Message- From: Gregg Swanson [mailto:gregg.swan...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:10 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge

Re: [WiX-users] WriteIIS7ConfigChanges - Stuck with 1603 error codes???

2011-02-08 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
If the VDir already exists, wix 3.5 will throw this error. Make sure the Virtual Directory you are creating doesn't already exist. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 8:31 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XM

Re: [WiX-users] Are there any known problems with XPath expressions in custom action?

2011-02-08 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I personally have had better success with the XmlConfig tag to do what you are doing. I would verify that the case and property value is correct. It is loking for SSIS:Name= "..\SSIS\GlobalExecutor.dtsx" in the SSIS:Package element. Can you copy that block from your xml file you are attemptin

[WiX-users] IIS Sites and Component Rules

2011-02-08 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I have an application that contains 5 components. Each component installs a Virtual Directory onto a website and each MSI has the website component to install if it doesn't exist. These website components all share a GUID. My problem is that on uninstall, it doesn't seem to check that there are

Re: [WiX-users] Password showing in text when installing custom user for AppPool

2010-06-21 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
#x27;t WriteIIS7ConfigChanges? -----Original Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) [mailto:pierson@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 4:00 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Password showing in text when installing custom user for AppPool Will

Re: [WiX-users] Password showing in text when installing custom user for AppPool

2010-06-18 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
riginal Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) [mailto:pierson@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 2:05 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Password showing in text when installing custom user for AppPool I have used the v3.5 version with VS2010 to create MSIs. I no

[WiX-users] Password showing in text when installing custom user for AppPool

2010-06-18 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I have used the v3.5 version with VS2010 to create MSIs. I noticed that if I create a custom appPool and assign it a real user that this step in the basic logging displays the password in clear text: Property(S): WriteIIS7ConfigChange Can that line be encrypted or the password not be displayed

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall Problem

2010-05-27 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
You also need to create a user tag and set the LogonAsService portion to true. This is needed so the account can activate the service. -Original Message- From: vjt [mailto:victor.jara.telv...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 4:56 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: R

[WiX-users] Adding a font to the target machine

2010-05-27 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I have two font files that I'm trying to "install" to the target machine using WiX 3.0 RTM. I looked at the RegisterFonts option in WiX but that just lets me schedule the RegisterFonts parameter. How do I configure it to install the specific font files? Any help would be appreciated. --

[WiX-users] Error on uninstall

2010-04-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Trying to uninstall a service and it fails to uninstall. Log shows: MSI (s) (68:00) [17:20:43:678]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSI42ED.tmp, Entrypoint: ExecXmlFileRollback ExecXmlFileRollback: Error 0x80070003: Failed to get modified date of file E:\PricingManager

[WiX-users] Add Managed Handler

2010-01-18 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
In IIS 7.0 there is a new option of "Add Managed Handler" under "Handler Mappings" which allows me to add a MIME Type handler (dll) to point to a MIME extension. Is there such an option within WiX that allows me to do this using the IIS extensions with the 3.0 RTM version? -

Re: [WiX-users] Wix v3 script errors

2009-08-06 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Can you please provide source for context? -Original Message- From: Vinod Kulkarni [mailto:vinnukulka...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 6:32 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix v3 script errors Hello Wix Team, Can anyone please help me in resolving

[WiX-users] Permission/PermissionEx

2009-08-06 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Is there a way to have Permission/PermissionEx (and I still haven't figured out the difference) to retain the current ACL and only modify to add/remove what I need to do on the folder specified? What I'm trying to do is create a share on an existing folder but I have to grant domain users read

Re: [WiX-users] Service failed to start using WiX3.0

2009-08-05 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Also, make sure that you marked the .exe as the keypath for the servicecontrol. I've noticed this error too because the service install grabbed the first file in the component (if you don't have one component per file) and it wasn't the .exe. -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os..

Re: [WiX-users] How to change the installed config file after msi setup

2009-03-02 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Is there a reason you don't want to do it through the MSI? You can edit the config file directly using XMLConfig/ -Original Message- From: Nan Zang [mailto:naz...@exchange.microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 5:29 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sub

Re: [WiX-users] Installing Windows WCF Service

2009-02-27 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
ck to make sure your account has "log on as a service" rights? Pierson Lee (PIE) wrote: > > I have created a WiX 3.0 (Windows Installer XML Toolset, Version > 3.0.4526.0) installer to install a Windows WCF Service. When I install the > service under a domain account (my

[WiX-users] Installing Windows WCF Service

2009-02-27 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I have created a WiX 3.0 (Windows Installer XML Toolset, Version 3.0.4526.0) installer to install a Windows WCF Service. When I install the service under a domain account (my credentials) I get the following failure: Product: IDSService -- Error 1923. Service 'IDSService' (IDSService) could not

[WiX-users] Support for other binding types in IIS

2009-01-16 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
With WCF in IIS, there has been need to bind net.tcp and others as site bindings. As far as I can tell, we only have support for http and https right now. Is this something that is coming or should I create a feature request? Thanks Pierson ---

[WiX-users] ClickOnce and WiX

2008-11-06 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Has anyone tried packaging a "clickonce" deployment using WiX? Our goal is to create a package that will push the bits to a site/Vdir and have the click once package be ready for use. One of the problems I've run into is the customAction for Mage.exe's signing of the file. We had it after the i

Re: [WiX-users] Problems with XmlConfig

2008-10-27 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
s 10, so you have to use instead of . Or use the full sequence for CR/LF: For your sample, the following should work: -Original Message----- From: "Pierson Lee (PIE)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problems with XmlConfig To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Problems with XmlConfig

2008-10-14 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Just to give you a better idea: Is what I'm attempting -Original Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:09 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problems with XmlC

Re: [WiX-users] Problems with XmlConfig

2008-10-14 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
o: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problems with XmlConfig I think you're fighting MSXML here. -Original Message- From: Pierson Lee (PIE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 13:27 To: General discussion for Windows Instal

[WiX-users] Problems with XmlConfig

2008-10-14 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I was attempting to insert #xA; into my web configs to specify a carriage return for some lines of text I'm adding into the config, but it seems like during the process, those characters are getting stripped. Anyone have any idea how to do this? Thanks :) ---

[WiX-users] xmlConfig and hex ascii values

2008-10-13 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I was attempting to insert #0xA; into my web configs to specify a carriage return for some lines of text I'm adding into the config, but it seems like during the process, those characters are getting stripped. Anyone have any idea how to do this? Thanks :) --

Re: [WiX-users] Default website gets removed on Uninstall

2008-08-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Of Luke Bakken Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:43 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Default website gets removed on Uninstall On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Pierson Lee (PIE) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's one of the b

Re: [WiX-users] Default website gets removed on Uninstall

2008-08-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
I think he is stating that if the port isn't 80, he needs a website created otherwise, he wants to use the default. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:24 AM To: wix-users Subject: Re: [WiX-u

Re: [WiX-users] Default website gets removed on Uninstall

2008-08-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
That's one of the big issues I've been trying to solve. You can probably set another conditional if you can find a good way to check and see if the site already exists. I've been meaning to spend more time to allow a user to either A) create a new site or B) use an existing site and I haven't b

Re: [WiX-users] Default website gets removed on Uninstall

2008-08-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Are you passing your port number in at uninstall? Does your port in your properties have a default value? Because your Virtual Directory and website are in the same component, and your GUID for both are the same, I think it is uninstalling the second component with the site creation. Look at usi

Re: [WiX-users] launch an application during installation

2008-08-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
A property cannot have an embedded property within it. To do this, you have to do use a custom action that resolves your property into another property. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zynkerr Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:26 AM To: wix

Re: [WiX-users] replacement for XmlFile

2008-08-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
Also check out XmlConfig as I've been told it is more robust if all you're doing is changing XML values in XML files. Example: Will set the appSettings add=XmlFilePath value to be the path of Directory41 in my directory structure :) -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] Patching resets WebAppPool's Password

2008-08-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
In your patch, you need to remove the "RemoveOnUninstall="yes" on the User you create, or when you uninstall the patch, it uninstalls the user. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Faraz Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:25 AM To: wix-users@list

Re: [WiX-users] serviceinstall problems

2008-08-19 Thread Pierson Lee (PIE)
1. I don't think you need 2 servicecontrol tags. You can combine the two you have and use one (I haven't tried two so I don't know if that's an issue). 2. Make sure that the person installing has admin rights on your install server. 3. if UAC is enabled, disable it (only on vista/server 2008) 4. m

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to Checkout/Checkin wxs files in VS2008 TFS

2008-08-13 Thread Pierson Lee
I had the same problem. I had to recreate the wix project files and the solution files to "fix" the problem. (basically I created a new project and reimported my wxs files). If you figure out what the exact changes are, let me know, but I was on a time crunch and this fixed my problem. -Ori

Re: [WiX-users] Running MSI as SYSTEM and no ARP and other weirdnesses?

2008-08-13 Thread Pierson Lee
Two questions: 1. If you run through interactive does it appear in ARP? 2. Do you have the GUIDs setup for Product Code, Upgrade code, Components, etc? Thanks Pierson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Kuhr Sent: Wednesday, August 13,

Re: [WiX-users] How to set the IIS read permission and execute permission

2008-07-17 Thread Pierson Lee
Look at the WebDirProperties under IIS. That's where I set mine... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Tarm Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:48 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to set the IIS read permissio

Re: [WiX-users] after updating to the current wix 3.0.4311.0 drop I'm now getting compiler error CNDL0103: The system cannot find the file 'Files' with type 'Source'

2008-07-16 Thread Pierson Lee
I'll have to second you. I had the same problems with 4311. I attempted to install both the wix.msi and the wix_x64.msi with the same results. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert O'Brien Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:45 AM To: 'wix-

[WiX-users] IIS7 and RequireSSLCert=true

2008-07-16 Thread Pierson Lee
Anyone run into this issue? I'm installing an SSL Site onto an IIS7 box (Windows 2008) and I need to set Client Certificates to "Require". I've set this value in the IIS portion of my WiX using AccessSSLRequireCert="yes" and it causes the page to fail with a 403 error until I change it from requ

Re: [WiX-users] IIS7 App Pools and Wix

2008-06-25 Thread Pierson Lee
#x27;t yet supported in Wix... Amy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson Lee Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:46 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] IIS7 App Pools and Wix Hi, I noticed that with A

Re: [WiX-users] Passing the 'installdir' to a custom action in modified format

2008-06-25 Thread Pierson Lee
Can't you modify it in your C++ build? IIRC you can't manipulate strings beyond concatenation within WiX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Akshat Sharma Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:33 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML too

Re: [WiX-users] Search for Installed Windows Component

2008-06-25 Thread Pierson Lee
You can, but it would be a registry search to see whether the "installed" flag is set in a specific registry path. You can check with the Framework docs on MSDN to find out exactly where the keys reside. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ak

[WiX-users] IIS7 App Pools and Wix

2008-06-19 Thread Pierson Lee
Hi, I noticed that with Application pools in IIS7 there is a new feature, namely Application Pool Authentication mode. It can either be Classic or Integrated. With all the wix installations I've done, it will only set to classic and now I'm being asked to ensure that this is set to Integrated.

[WiX-users] IIS websites and v-dirs: How can I obtain a site list?

2008-06-06 Thread Pierson Lee
So here is a question. I've seen the default projects that come from Visual Studio and seen the site selection for Vdirs appear. How would one go about that through WiX? Any pointers? Thanks Pierson - Check out the new Sourc

Re: [WiX-users] Issue with XMLFile in util

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson Lee
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson Lee Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 13:53 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Ryan Perlman Subject: [WiX-users] Issue with XMLFile in util We are adding customizable XMLs to our web deployments. One of these deployments involve nes

[WiX-users] Issue with XMLFile in util

2008-06-03 Thread Pierson Lee
We are adding customizable XMLs to our web deployments. One of these deployments involve nested V-Dirs under the base IIS site. If we modify the web.config in the main V-Dir it will uninstall fine, but if we modify the config in the nexted V-Dir, then it fails to uninstall. After reviewing the

Re: [WiX-users] Change TARGETDIR

2007-12-05 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
g in the right order (TARGET DIR is getting assigned after your script runs). I haven't tried to modify TARGETDIR with a custom action , so I can't begin to tell you what the problem is yet. Thanks Pierson From: Guna S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:17

Re: [WiX-users] capturing errors from deployment using octopusCLI

2007-11-13 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:46 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); Chandra Mohan Subject: RE: capturing errors from deployment using octopusCLI We're using Wix. Chandra did most of the work, but I know just enough to be dangerous. From: Pierson Lee (Volt) Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:43 PM T

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

2007-11-09 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
: Lanteigne, Alan Cc: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI Lanteigne, Alan wrote: I got it from here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970&package_id=16, which was a link for

Re: [WiX-users] IIS issues during install/uninstall

2007-11-09 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
nt: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:29 AM To: Blair Murri Cc: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] IIS issues during install/uninstall That WiX v3 build is about 6 months old. If you're going to be using WiX v3, you really should be picking up a new build

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

2007-11-08 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Are you getting it from wix.sourceforge.com? From: Lanteigne, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:22 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI I installed 3.2015, the latest votive

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

2007-11-08 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
No. sounds like a bad dll? Weird. You installed the latest version of Votive? Maybe try and reinstall it... From: Lanteigne, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:48 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: New to WIX, trying to get a

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

2007-11-08 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
No.. In Visual Studio you need to add a reference to the UI dll. So Project -> Add Reference -> WixUIExtension.dll From: Lanteigne, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:16 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: New to WIX, try

Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI

2007-11-08 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
You have to add a reference to the WixUI component dll. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lanteigne, Alan Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:05 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI Hello, I ha

[WiX-users] IIS issues during install/uninstall

2007-11-07 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Hello all- I'm getting occasional (and increasingly frustrating) issues with IIS Web Site/applications and IIS Application Pools in IIS when using a WiX 3.0 Created MSI package where the sites/app pools are getting installed on the wrong level of the metabase then not uninstalling properly, cau

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3: How to verify user name / password entered?

2007-10-04 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
The only thing I can think of is that if you specify the user account, and then as part of the MSI try and start the service, if the service start fails, I think the installer fails too. (not a very good check, I know). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Peters

[WiX-users] Upgrade guide / Existing components

2007-09-25 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
I'm looking to see if anyone has a good guide to writing upgrades. What I am attempting to do is upgrade certain components in my upgrade MSI if a previous version exists, but not deploy the other components. A specific example is my installer package installs a website that needs an SSL cert. T

Re: [WiX-users] Some STUPID Limitations in WiX

2007-09-25 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Just FYI - The WiX toolset is used to help write custom MSI packages but still need to follow the underlying Windows Installer rules and guidelines. I don't think the issues that you are mentioning are "issues" that pertain only to WiX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[

Re: [WiX-users] Better XML coding

2007-08-31 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Depends if you're using a standard UI or if you customized it. If you're using a standard one, I'd use the wixlib, if you customized it, you are going to have to include it in the wix source. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil Sent: F

Re: [WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX

2007-08-31 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
What do you mean by hardlink? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Stindl Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 6:35 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Create Hardlink with WiX Hallo all, does anybody know, if it's possib

Re: [WiX-users] Launch a second installer from MSI

2007-08-31 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Windows Installer will not run two MSIs at the same time. The only way you're going to be able to do this is to use a bootstrapper. I ran into the same problem attempting to deploy a component MSI (.net framework 2.0) within mine and had to find an alternate method. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key, retrying 0 time(s)...

2007-08-21 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Were these changes made to version 3 also? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:46 PM To: Surendra Katari; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/' key,

[WiX-users] Msi admin (/x) versus regular (/i) install and IIS

2007-08-17 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Are there any weird issues that anyone knows of with WiX Msis installing IIS app pools and sites through Admin (/x) installs? I'm doing it and it seems to be putting the keys in the IIS metabase for the App Pool values in places where it causes my App Pools to come up with in IIS manager. Mayb

Re: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall

2007-08-13 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
4 sites uninstall properly, it is just this one package. From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:38 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); 'david adams'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall As

Re: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall

2007-08-13 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
up and the other 4 sites uninstall properly, it is just this one package. From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:38 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); 'david adams'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/

Re: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall

2007-08-13 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Hmm. I am wondering if it is the host header then, because this is just a recent problem that's shown up and the other 4 sites uninstall properly, it is just this one package. From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:38 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); 'd

Re: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall

2007-08-10 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson Lee (Volt) Sent: 10 August 2007 21:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall I am currently installing 4 sites packaged with WiX. I have it installing app_pools, sites and the necessary files and

Re: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall

2007-08-10 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
2007 3:04 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall WiX only looks at the combination of IP address(es), port number, and Host header. If any of those have been changed post-installation, the custom action may e

[WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall

2007-08-10 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
I am currently installing 4 sites packaged with WiX. I have it installing app_pools, sites and the necessary files and file structures with each of these 4 on the same server. I noticed some weird behavior today, particularly in uninstallation. When I go to uninstall one of my sites, its not de

Re: [WiX-users] How to change TARGETDIR to e drive

2007-07-30 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
r this one) because you're specifying everything prior to the part where it is installing the files and not during the installfiles step. From: Ravit Shapira Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 2:35 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Re: [WiX-users] How to change TARGE

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Anything that runs a Windows installer based install won't work because windows installer doesn't like running multiple instances simultaneously. The only way I've been able to trick it is to get the subsequent msi to kick off at the end(very end) of the installation process but it sounds like t

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
If you think it is already installed, you can check the registry for a key that shows it installed and make that key the condition on whether or not you install your file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Friday, July 27, 2

Re: [WiX-users] Administrative install and File/Folder Sharing

2007-07-26 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
ckage. The error code is 2911. The arguments are: E:\Web\EmailShare\, , From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:09 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt) Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Administrative install and File/Folder Sharing Pierson Lee (Vol

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to Pass Parameters via MsiInstallProductW(Path_TO_MSI, CMDLINE)

2007-07-26 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Public properties in WiX are specified by the fact that the Property Id (the name) is all in Caps -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Magus Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:02 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Una

Re: [WiX-users] getting data from ini or (failing that) the user

2007-07-26 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
You can't set the installUI level (as I've been told) via the MSI. If you have a UI, it will be called. You can condition the UI to pop up particular screens if an INI file is not available, but the base UI screen (welcomedlg) will still be brought up in both cases. -Original Message- F

[WiX-users] Administrative install and File/Folder Sharing

2007-07-26 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
I'm doing a remote admin installation using an internal MSI deployment tool. My problem is that when I go to set the folder permissions for a FileShare it's telling me I don't have permissions to do this. Is there an easy way to elevate the MSI installation so that it will attempt to setup the

Re: [WiX-users] How to change TARGETDIR to e drive

2007-07-26 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
You don't need it as a custom action. Just specify a property e:\ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravit Shapira Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:46 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to change TARGETDIR to e drive Hi, I want to ad

Re: [WiX-users] Add Registry Value to a variable

2007-07-20 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
You need to do a registrysearch. Look at registrysearch in the documentation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of "Martin Österreicher" Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:42 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Add Registry Va

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally edit XML file if it is installed

2007-07-19 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Would it be worthwhile to do a filesearch and if it doesn't exist to then install the component and change the file (in a different feature)? That would be the way I'd do it, but I have yet to use the NeverOverwrite option. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [WiX-users] How to deploy all the files inside the folder rather than specifying each files

2007-07-19 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
There is not a way to specify a directory. You will need to specify each file explicitly to have it be part of the installation From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lingappa Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:48 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Ho

Re: [WiX-users] How to call an exe

2007-07-17 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Binary Key -> takes a tag with a dll/exe and will run it without extracting/installing it (the Binary is only valid at installtime) File key -> an extracted file that you need to access at install time also. This file will also be available after installation as per your tag. From: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [WiX-users] Annoying RemoveFolders problem

2007-07-13 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
ement and what the user wanted. The logic might have been slightly off but I found a different way to do it anyways (custom actions). -Original Message- From: Sebastian Brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 6:53 AM To: Pierson Lee (Volt) Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforg

[WiX-users] UILevel

2007-07-12 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Is there a property within the Wix I can set conditionally (dependent upon a registry key) whether or not to display a UI? - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 expres

Re: [WiX-users] Patch Problem Urgent !!!

2007-07-12 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
This looks like either you don't have permission to edit the metabase or the metabase doesn't exist. Do you have the lines from the wix patch regarding writing to the /W3SVC/1/Root ? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petrut Andrei Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:15

Re: [WiX-users] Executing a custom action on uninstall but not on majorupgrade

2007-07-11 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
Or if you want it only on uninstall, the condition REMOVE="ALL" should work also From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson, Phil Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Executing a custom action on uninstall

Re: [WiX-users] Install target directory from Registry key.

2007-07-11 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
I had the same problem and had to use a custom action to write it to the property after AppSearch had been completed. What is the proper way of doing this? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benas Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.

[WiX-users] Component question

2007-07-10 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
This is a general question related to the tag. If I were to set the Transitive flag within the to "yes" would it reevaluate the conditional at the time of uninstall or is it only on Modify and installation that it looks at the Transitive flag? Thanks Pierson --

Re: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec in merge module path problem

2007-07-10 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
In order to set the property to include another property you have to use a CustomAction Try From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve baker Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:22 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec in merge module pat

Re: [WiX-users] Annoying RemoveFolders problem

2007-07-06 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
e to run the bat file (but now my program won't uninstall) and it isn't running the commands either. TIA -Pierson -Original Message- From: Stefan Pavlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:30 AM To: Pierson Lee (Volt) Cc: wix-users@lists.sourcefor

[WiX-users] Annoying RemoveFolders problem

2007-07-05 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
I'm at my wit's end trying to figure out this RemoveFolders problem so any help will be greatly appreciated. I am attempting to remove 2 folders that I created on install ONLY if all 3 registry keys I'm checking for do not exist. My Component for removeFolders looks like this: (NOT (KEY1_EXIS

[WiX-users] Feature Conditionals and Silent (passive) install

2007-07-05 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
I've created an MSI that, through a UI, will determine from a public property that is selected through a radio button, which feature to install. It uses the feature conditional that changes the level of the feature. If I set the same property from a command-line, it doesn't evaluate and both fe

Re: [WiX-users] Installing dotnet framework along with your MSI package

2007-07-03 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
It should complete. You'll need to find the flags to do it silently but you are right, there is no guarantee when it will complete or that it will finish if it encounters an error. From: sanjay bhaskar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 6:13 PM To: Pierson Lee (Volt)

Re: [WiX-users] Installing dotnet framework along with your MSI package

2007-07-02 Thread Pierson Lee (Volt)
That's the same thing I'm doing. You have to use a bootstrapper. If you're using VS 2005, you can use the setup project and it will allow you to check for .net framework . The other way you can do it (which I did, but am having a heck of a time) is to call the .net Framework redistributable at

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