Hi Due to KB 905238(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238) I have to schedule RemoveExisitngProducts after InstallFinalize. Hence during upgrade my new product gets installed first and then the old product gets removed.
The product which I am working on adds a port rule to the firewall so that the port can be used by the service installed by the product for communicating with the network. Now the msi of the old product removes this port from firewall during uninstall. Since both the new and the old version of the product use the same port for communicating, the behavior which we are seeing during upgrade is that even though the new product opens the port during install, the old product removes it during uninstall. The net effect is that port is removed from the firewall. Opening up a port in the firewall seems to be a system change and should be done in a deferred custom action and should be done after the old product has been uninstalled. Hence, this custom action should be done after RemoveExisitngProducts. However, since RemoveExisitngProducts is after Installfinalize, I cannot run this as a deferred custom action because deferred CAs run between InstallInitilaize and InstallFinalize. I also cannot change the old product behavior to not remove the port during an upgrade case as the old product has already been released. Can someone please guide me through this and let me know how can invoke a custom action making a system change after RemoveExistingProducts(which is scheduled after InstallFinalize). Alternatively, if there is any other way of doing this I would be interested in knowing that as well. Thanks for your help!! Regards Meera ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
