Hi Marc, I think I'm finally piecing this together: the only very missing part is the interaction with /quiet - if I am not mistaken. But I have one question for everyone:
Util:RestartResource - does one use that to register that one wants to restart an *existing* application / service, or does it flag part of one's installation as sensitive for the changes to *it*? If it is the latter, I will be no further ahead until I install an update which includes that, presumably. (Once I also set MSIRMSHUTDOWN=2 and MSIDISABLERMRESTART=0) My question is the dual to the one on stackoverflow: 8354767. The person there wants to prevent auto-kill; I want to do the opposite (to ensure that the installation succeeds). 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 -----Original Message----- From: Marc Beaudry [mailto:mbeau...@matrox.com] Sent: April-24-14 5:31 PM To: 'General discussion about the WiX toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Restart manager, services, unattended installs Hi Keith, I am not running silently and the Property and the removal of the dialogs worked for my Windows 7 installation, on Windows 8 I am still getting the Restart at the very end, when the MSI terminates (The last dialog closes). It seems to be popping the reboot dialog from Windows Installer and not WIX. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, Marc -----Original Message----- From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] Sent: April-24-2014 4:37 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Restart manager, services, unattended installs Hi Marc, thanks for answering. I am not sure the property you mentioned is the right one: the documentation says that with it set the way you recommend the FilesInUse dialog will be used. But since I do unattended/installs from a service, that doesn't sound useful - since it seems that would freeze the installation waiting for the input which can never come. Unless of course some other option (on the command line? a property?) works to automatically answer the dialog with a "shut down the process" type answer. But that's precisely what I don't see explained - least of all on that page. Is it buried somewhere else? In fact I already use the property in question, so maybe this is exactly opposite? Hm, for some reason I have MSIRMSHUTDOWN = 2 set as well. Maybe that's wrong. As for the Restart Manager APIs, I found on my own aa373682, which explains how to register applications to automatically be shutdown and restarted. That sounds promising, but how do I do that from WiX? Util:RestartResource ? I seem to have tried that in the past unsuccessfully. 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 -----Original Message----- From: Marc Beaudry [mailto:mbeau...@matrox.com] Sent: April-24-14 4:04 PM To: 'General discussion about the WiX toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Restart manager, services, unattended installs Hi Keith, Far from being an expert, but I am currently dealing with similar issues: Here is an Idea: <Property Id="MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL" Value="Disable"/> Also you can remove the FileInUse dialogs from within the WIX sources And lastly take a look at this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373649(v=vs.85).aspx Hope this helps, Marc -----Original Message----- From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] Sent: April-24-2014 3:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Restart manager, services, unattended installs 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? 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