In XP: you either are an administrator or you are not. It is simple. In Vista with UAC turned off: Same as XP.
In Vista with UAC turned on: Administrators are "not" an administrator until they elevate (via the consent dialog). Non-administrators can also elevate via the same mechanism by supplying an administrator's credentials. To prevent breaking older installation packages, on Vista without MSIUSEREALADMINDETECTION set, AdminUser (and Privileged) are always set, since the user can (in theory) always supply the credentials needed to the consent dialog. Privileged means that either the user can install or would be able to install by supplying credentials. AdminUser (if MSIUSERREALADMINDETECTION is set to 1) means that you have a token that has the administrator's groups privileges enabled. The non-elevated token of the your admin doesn't have those set. Typically, what people have done is not set MSIUSEREALADMINDETECTION, test for the condition of "Privileged", and expect that the following happens: If the installation could succeed on XP, the condition passes, otherwise it fails. The condition always passes on Vista (on the assumption that the user will later see the consent dialog), and the user must navigate the consent dialog in order to complete the installation. I'm sure you have a justification to not allow Vista standard users from attempting perMachine installations, but the reason for the changes above was to enable what is called "over-the-shoulder" permission: standard users starts installation, gets consent dialog, administrator comes by and supplies credentials, installation completes. That is easier than the XP model of logout, login as admin, run installation, logout, log back in as user. -----Original Message----- From: warne warne [mailto:warne...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 1:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Vista Standard User and perMachine install Thanks for the help, I tried it without InstallPrivileges="elevated" and it almost got it to work. Both methods ('Condition' element and type 19 custom action) appear to have the same net effect. XP works great and stops the install if not an admin. That fine and is what I want. Vista however is different. If logged in as admin, double clicking the msi to launch the install doesn't recognise Im admin & stops with my error message. Under the same admin login, if I open a command prompt as administrator and run msiexec /i myinstall.msi , the installer now detects admin and continues fine. Great! But what sane user is going to want to run an installer from the command prompt as administrator ;( Here is my Custom action <InstallUISequence> <Custom Action="IsPrivileged" Before="LaunchConditions">Not AdminUser</Custom> <Show Dialog="OldVerDetected" After="FindRelatedProducts">REMOVEOLDPRODUCT</Show> </InstallUISequence> Is UISequence the correct place for this stuff? Also note I need to set the MSIUSEREALADMINDETECTION property to 1 for this to work. After trying all this it seems (in this case) msi cannot detect if I am an admin user in Vista. What about creating a bootsrap setup.exe which runs my installer using msiexec like I did the command prompt. Is that whats normally done to get round this type of problem? Lastly I noticed when using: <Condition Message="You must be an admin to install this product.">Not AdminUser</Condition> No Launch Condition Table is created when I open the msi in Orca, even though the condition seems to work (at least for XP and vista standard user). Why is that? _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live, you can organise, edit, and share your photos. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
