Thanks for the tip. I only (at the time) cared about the install on windows 2000. According to MSDN http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367559.aspx:
Windows Vista: Windows Installer version 4.0 complies with User Account Control (UAC). If the user has user access privileges, and ALLUSERS=2, the installer performs a per-machine installation only if Admin credentials are provided to the UAC dialog box. If UAC is enabled and the correct Admin credentials are not provided, the installation fails with an error stating that administrator privileges are required. If UAC is disabled by the registry key, group policy, or the control panel, the UAC dialog box is not displayed and the installation fails with an error stating that administrator privileges are required. Windows XP: If the user has user access privileges, and ALLUSERS=2, Windows Installer performs a per-user installation and uses the folders in the user's profile. Windows 2000: The Windows Installer performs a per-user or per-machine installation depending on the value of the ALLUSERS property. If the ALLUSERS property is not set, the Installer does a per-user installation. If the ALLUSERS property is set to 1, the Installer attempts a per-machine installation. The per-machine installation succeeds only if the user has administrative access privileges on the computer. If the ALLUSERS property is set to 2, the Installer first attempts a per-machine installation. In this case, the per-machine installation succeeds only if the user has administrative access privileges on the computer. Otherwise, the Installer does a per-user installation. I can locate any documentation (after 10 minutes of searching, only) on ALLUSERS=1. Is there a reference for that? -Dustin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rennie Petersen Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:28 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Add\Remove Programs issue You might want to do some extra research into ALLUSERS. What I've heard on this mailing list is that ALLUSERS=2 is discouraged, as it becomes too unpredictable as to what can happen. ALLUSERS=1 requires that an install is for all users, and is probably what you want. For a single-user install you do not specify ALLUSERS at all. (ALLUSERS=0 does not work / does not exist!). Rennie > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dustin Andrews > Sent: 14. maj 2007 22:13 > To: nhenny; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Add\Remove Programs issue > > I think you want to set the install to "All Users". > > <Property Id="ALLUSERS">2</Property> > > This will install the package for all users and all the > admins can see it in add/remove then. Your package thinks > it's user specific, when clearly it's not. > > -Dustin > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nhenny > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 7:41 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Add\Remove Programs issue > > > Not sure if this is a WiX issue, but I will see what you all > have to say.... > > Here's the situation: > > Created an MSI (always created with the same GUIDS as I am > still creating the initial package to be released) Installed > it as a Domain Admin (and Domain Admins are part of the local > Admin group) on a server Looked in Add\Remove Programs and I > can see the entry. > > All seems good but....here is the problem > > Another Admin logs in a few days later and wants to apply a > newer build of the same MSI already installed so they go into > Add\Remove to remove the previous MSI and the entry is not > there. However, I can log in and still see the entry in > Add\Remove and successfully remove the install. The other > admin can not remove the previous install. If they try to > install the new build, it will simply let them install it > right over the previous build...even though the GUIDs are the same. > > Here is what I have checked. > > Both users are logged in as Domain Admins and Domain Admins > are part of the local Admin Group. > The registry keys located @ > HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{Prod uct GUID} are there and can be located in the registry as either > the user than can see the entry in control panel and the user > that can not see the entry in Add\Remove. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Nick > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Add%5CRemove-Programs-issue-tf3752826.ht ml#a10605190 > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 > Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control > of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 > Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control > of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
