Thanks for the reply Phil. Actually I found out today that we put something in the drive to always install with elevated permissions.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms813108.aspx so problem solved. Thanks, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:30 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Run As Admin required to run installer as passive from command line Apparently your MSI needs admin privilege to install, since you need admin rights to install it silently, and I'm guessing that on UAC systems in UI mode it gives you the elevation prompt so it will run elevated. If it tries to do things that require admin rights then it must be given admin rights. There's no exemption from security rules just because it's an install. Even if it's a per user install that attempts to do things that require admin rights it will still fail. There's no obvious reason why the Visual Studio scenario would have worked unless the setup has been changed in some way that it now requires admin rights. The priority in the setup is to decide whether you want per user or per system, and per system is usually the correct answer. If this is just the update scenario where the app is being run by a limited user, but it needs admin rights to do the update, you could run the MSI from a separate executable with a requiresAdministrator manifest then an admin can come along and supply credentials. Or if it's a corporate type of environment an update can be pushed out to limited users via admin-blessed group policy. By default, MSIINSTALLPERUSER doesn't apply to XP. --------------- Phil Wilson On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Dan Blanchard <dblanch...@cuattro.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Moving to VS/TFS 2013 from 2010 so can't use visual studio setup project > anymore which I am ok with... but having an issue with using WIX, I would > appreciate some guidance. > > Currently we sell complete systems with a non-admin account auto logged in, > some on Win XP, some on Windows 7, some on Windows 8 Embedded. So we need to > keep doing it this way. > > We have a way to check for new version of app and then runs it in passive > mode from command line, like this: > > msiexec /i {PathToMsi} /passive /quiet /norestart /L*V > "install_log_passive.txt" > > However we are getting errors which are only happening when it's run in > passive mode (without the UI). It works If we run it with UI (without > /passive option), OR running in passive mode by right-clicking and choosing > "Run As Administrator". The error is: > > Error 1925. You do not have sufficient privileges to complete this > installation for all users of the machine. Log on as administrator and then > retry this installation. > > I set ALLUSERS to 2 in the wix project files, but this message appears in the > log that says it gets set to 1 - does anyone know why this is happening? > > PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying ALLUSERS property. Its current value is '2'. Its > new value: '1'. > > I added this to product.wxs by removing installScope from the Package node, > and put this on the next line within the Package Node: > <Property Id="ALLUSERS" Value="2" /> > > I was doing this because of this msdn article: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd408007(v=vs. > 85).aspx > > Attached are the log files. If anyone has some insight into this, I would > really appreciate it, I really need to get it to work like we have the > installer working with VS Setup project. > > Thank You, > > Dan > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph > Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this > first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. 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