Evidently I am the only person that has attempted to use this? ;) The operating system that was having problems was a native-language version of Windows 7 and *not* standard (English) Windows 7 with a language pack installed.
I've not looked into it as it is not a priority right now, but if anyone has any ideas... Thanks. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Andy Clugston <clug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to use the WixQueryOsWellKnownSID action to query the > localized group names for the Administrators and Users groups. In general, > per the log file the action appears to be running and exiting but is still > returning the English spelling of these groups thus causing the install > package to fail (cannot locate the group names since they are misspelled). > This is running on a Portuguese version of Windows 7 Professional. Using > released version of WiX 3.0. > > This is how the source is using the action and properties: > > <PropertyRef Id="WIX_ACCOUNT_ADMINISTRATORS" /> > <PropertyRef Id="WIX_ACCOUNT_USERS" /> > > <util:Group Id="UsersGroup" Name="[WIX_ACCOUNT_USERS]"/> > <util:Group Id="AdministratorsGroup" Name="[WIX_ACCOUNT_ADMINISTRATORS]"/> > > Within the User element referencing the groups like so... > > <util:GroupRef Id="UsersGroup"/> > <util:GroupRef Id="AdministratorsGroup"/> > > Is there something I am doing wrong, or does this action only support a > subset of all possible languages? > > Is there a way to specify the names by common SID and avoid this action > altogether? > > Thanks. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
