Thanks, Neil! This indeed turned out to be an acceptable way.

-- Yan


-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:50 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] A call to aspnet_regiis -s fails for
newlycreatedsite

>> However, I've seen the samples like this and I'm not sure it is a
>> flexible solution. You simply hardcode the script maps, but what if
>> newer versions of IIS add some more? Or if there were customizations
on
>> a target machine I'm not aware about? 

Simply add the ones you need, I think this is more flexible but YMMV.

>> Due to the fact that aspnet_regiis does the things, why is it a bad
>> practice to use it? And also, the main question is why it breaks
ASP.NET
>> down being called as a custom action? 

As you have found running exes from custom actions is not reliable, also
you cannot undo the change easily.

I find this solution works reliably so chose to use it, your situation
may be different.

Neil

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