ANNNND I think I've isolated it down to a "Failed to load assembly Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller" error in the MSI log. This happens on windows Vista (Windows Installer 4.5) and XP. Does anyone have any suggestions? I feel this may be the crux of my troubles...
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Stryder Crown <[email protected]> wrote: > Update: Action fails under Vista, succeeds under Windows 7... > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Stryder Crown <[email protected]>wrote: > >> and as a follow up on this: >> >> Do all managed custom actions require elevation under Vista? I have one >> defined as >> <CustomAction Id="MyCA" >> BinaryKey="CustomActions.dll" >> DllEntry="MyExampleCA" >> Execute="immediate" >> Return="check" >> HideTarget="no" >> Impersonate="yes" /> >> >> And it does absolutely nada under vista with UAC turned on. >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Stryder Crown <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Getting all three to work together isn't...well, working. Hoping >>> somebody might have a suggestion as to how this could work better... >>> >>> I've got a complete handle on the actual service installation and start >>> up (and tear down) and can even have the user enter account information to >>> run the service as via an install dialog. >>> >>> But, if the account information isn't correct, when the service is >>> installed (and started) I get the 'insufficient privileges' dialog box with >>> only 'retry' and 'cancel' buttons. The user has no opportunity (at that >>> point) to re-enter the account information (user name and password). >>> >>> So, I thought I'd be clever and execute a custom action that uses >>> SSPI/Logon to validate the users information at the installer dialog, before >>> the service is installed. And this works too! Except under UAC conditions >>> (Vista/windows 7). If I have UAC disabled, I have no problems. So, this >>> means I have to elevate the custom action...but since we're talking UAC, I >>> have to defer it to InstallInitialize/InstallFinalize...At which point >>> there's no dialog entry available. And at that point, I can't even get a >>> dialog going from the Custom Action (via winforms/WPF) from which I would've >>> set the verified and set the Properties being used by the ServiceInstall >>> element. >>> >>> So, any ideas? Did any of that make sense? Anybody else out there try >>> to tackle User Authentication/Impersonation during an install? I'm about to >>> see if I can't push the custom action back to the end of the installation >>> process, and update the service at that point, but I'm not feeling too >>> confident (or proud) of this sort of hackery. >>> >>> Stryder >>> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
