I'm afraid you lost me there. Just about everything inside the MSI engine can
be one outside of MSI.
The reason I think this should be a built-in pattern of MSI isn't because I'm
lazy or something, it's because I've spent a lot of time in the field working
on this and I know it would be a good thing.
Imagine this: When I worked at a major U.S. Airline I designed and
developed a system that allowed us to describe all of the configuration
attributes of all of our applications in a series of custom Active Directory
schema extensions. We created an MMC snapin, utilities for GPO machine startup
scripts and a standard custom action that went into all of our installs.
The concept was that we had a central system showing how all of our
repackaged applications were configured across the enterprise. Furthermore we
could reconfigure the applications in a zero touch manner. If someone wanted
to change a client server application in Houston from one database server to
another you just went into MMC, drilled down to the correct OU or computer (
inheritance was supported) , selected the correct application an desired
attribute and changed the value. The system knew the configuration type
( ini, registry, xml ) and definition and it would automatically reconfigure
the effected machine.
I know everyone likes to say configuration data is a pain.... but imagine how
painless it would be if MSI/MMC/AD/GPO had this type of built-in story and
ISV's were supporting it as part of their deployment story.
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Richard wrote:
> Haven't you ever worked on a project where some enhancements are
> postponed in favor of working on More Important Things?
>
More importantly, there's an easy pattern to do the same thing without
custom actions. I'd rather the MSI team do the things in the engine that
can't be done, with or without custom actions, outside the engine.
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