I think the issue is actually that Burn is putting the full path to the executable to prevent PATH searching and opening a potential security vulnerability. Full paths are always safer.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com> wrote: > I think that is probably related to burn being 32 bit and dcim running > from 64 bit system folder so the current environment is not passed to the > process. May be the code could support expansion of a [SystemFolder64] > property. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Schultz [mailto:eschu...@outercurve.org] > Sent: 05 February 2013 20:46 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and > the Server Manager requirement > > For me, running dism.exe only worked if I put in the full path. Not sure > why that is. > > Eric > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com> > wrote: > > > DCIM should be on the path so adding C:\Windows\system32 shouldn't be > > necessary. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] > > Sent: 04 February 2013 22:09 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server > > and the Server Manager requirement > > > > Depending on C:\Windows\system32 would break on non-default installs... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 3:59 PM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server > > and the Server Manager requirement > > > > Because burn will only run exes packaged in a release. It won't run > > arbitrary exes. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marc Fauser [mailto:marc.fau...@gmail.com] > > Sent: 04 February 2013 21:37 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server > > and the Server Manager requirement > > > > On 2013-02-04 22:29, Eric Schultz wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > I've created a simple ExeRunner application that can be embedded > > > into your bundle and then be called to run a command on the > > > destination computer. To install .NET Framework 3.5 and less on Win > > > 8, the entire command line would > > > be: > > > > > > ExeRunner.exe C:\Windows\system32\dism.exe /online /norestart > > > /enable-feature /featurename:netfx3 > > > > > > If the inner command fails, it's error code is returned. > > > > If you can call ExeRunner.exe, why can't you call dism.exe directly? > > > > Marc > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- Everyone hates slow websites. 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