Who actually uses GPO deployment?  It's capabilities are soooo limited compare 
to tools like SCCM(SMS) which has no problems handling multiple files including 
exe's.
 
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--- On Sat, 5/14/11, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:


From: Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 7:23 PM


On 13-May-11 13:32, Wilson, Phil wrote:
> Well being picky you don't need MSI 4.5 if all you want to do is install a 
> collection of MSI files wrapped in your custom UI using 
> MsiSetExternalUIRecord - that's always been an option. MSI 4.5 gives you 
> transaction support (so you don't need to uninstall some yourself if one 
> fails), and the ability to say that you have an embedded UI, but folks have 
> been chaining MSIs and generally making a collection look like a single 
> "product" for a long time, and MSI 4.5 just gave more hooks to make it better.

It also provides the ability for a chainer to be delivered as an .msi 
(via MsiEmbeddedChainer) instead of just as an .exe. That makes it 
easier for GPO deployment.

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