We have a in house windows service installed by a WiX installer. Since our 
users on these remote systems are not administrators, this install is actually 
"brokered" by the same service. That is, msiexec is called by the service 
itself, and the installation is called with /quiet /norestart as we do not want 
the user to see anything nor to have the OS reboot immediately, as the user 
will be confused/lose work, etc. by this. Unfortunately under some 
circumstances the installation fails because the files from the service (e.g. 
its EXE and its remoting proxy library) are in use. I don't care if it takes a 
reboot to finish the installation; but I do want to ensure the files are 
eventually updated and the service continues working. What is the most reliable 
way to do this? I take it that if the installation were to be manual the 
FilesInUse dialog would do the trick, but with the unattended, SYSTEM brokered 
install this won't of course work. So what will "click OK" there and do the 
shutdown and restart of the service? Is it passable as a property in the 
installer itself?

Thanks,


Keith Douglas
Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6
Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6
keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca
Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589
Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-4674
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada


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