You won't be able to force a 3rd party installer to change scope very easily, especially in the case of an EXE based installation (nor would I recommend doing so). What exactly are you trying to do? If DirectX is a prerequisite to your software, use burn to install it in the chain before your MSI. If your simply trying to wrap the DX setup in a MSI (maybe for legacy AD deployment??) then you're "on your own" as far as MS supporting it. Concurrent installs are bad.
Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368010(v=vs.85).aspx -----Original Message----- From: Paul Finkiewicz [mailto:p...@mvsengineering.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 3:12 PM To: 'General discussion about the WiX toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing DirectX9 Components within a perUser MSI I'm suggesting it is a permissions issue because it works on my machine with elevated permissions. The problem is on a PC that is limited. I checked the log on the problem PC and get this: Product: MYProduct -- Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action: InstallDirectX, location: C:\Users\LocalUser\AppData\Local\VNet Beta\DirectX9\dxsetup.exe, command: /silent -----Original Message----- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 12:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing DirectX9 Components within a perUser MSI Is the install log showing anything helpful? You say it's a permissions issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
