You'd have to spin of a separate process that can elevate. We've talked about adding somethig like this to Burn for IIS because they made a huge API blunder and required read operations to be elevated. <sigh/>
Of course, that thing hasn't been implemented yet. Maybe you'd like to contribute it? On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Henning Krause <m...@henningkrause.eu>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on an installer which creates a virtual directory in IIS. The > installer has a managed bootstrapper application (Burn) and lets the user > select the website to which install the virtual application to. > > For the selection process, I enumerate all installed websites on the local > IIS using the Managed API for IIS. However, it seems that even reading the > current IIS configuration required elevation. So it would seem the entire > Bootstrapper has to be elevated, which has some smell IMHO. > > What is the best practice in this scenario? > > Kind regards, > Henning Krause > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got visibility? > Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. > Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
