Dear Francesco, You are prtialy correct, custom actions can not be rolled back, not in Wise and (I think) not in any windows installation tool. let me be more clear: if I write a custom action to do something, and this action is somewhere in the installation flow, then Windows installer engine CAN N...

To Whom It May Concern :wink: When you add the Prerequisites actions, you get 2 additional scripts into the MsiCode: The first is for checking thr prereq' and the second is for installing the prereq'. if you don't want to install the prereq', and just to display a warning, you should REMOVE the seco...

Dear Francesco, You are correct, these actions are out of MSI engine's scope, so the rollback process doesn't aware to/of them. That's why I should write the "rollback" actions by myself, and combine them into the MSI engine's rollback process. Wise allowed me to put ANY custom action with...

:oops: to tell you the true, I didn't think of it :( I use to think in a "windows installer" way, every action there is a reversed action. And you say: do all the non-rollback actions after a "point of no return". Am I correct so far ? I feel un commutable with that way - What if...

Many thanks, dear Francesco, generaly writing, you are correct, so let me refine a little. supose there is MsiCode action that do what NtRights.exe is doing, called "Enable rights" so the install process order will look like this: 1. (some action) 2. add new user 3. Enable rights 4. (more ...

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I find this dynamically scanning annoying, too. can't always make the executable to start in a clean release build environment. Not to mention Services.

Hey, Francesco

Your silence here is telling me: Zvika, please go and rt<beep>m about transactions in msicode, and do some exercises to really understand the simplicity of this topic.

o.k. I'm going... don't try to stop me...

Yes, it's not. I can use to it.

O.k. got the idea, thanks.

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I was Wise not to take the Shield... now I'm (almost) Aware.
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Hi, In one of my installations, I created a local user and give him "logon as service rights" by ntrights.exe command. step 1: creating the user by MsiCode action "Create User" or by the Design section. step 2: seting the right is by MsiCode action "Run Command". step3:...

Hi, Our Servers are managed, means we KNOW what's on them, OS, SP, NET version, IIS version, etc'. but, to be on the safe side, i prefared to check before installing the application, and to display a message about the missing component. InstallAware have this "Application runtimes" that Ch...

Hi Francesco, I looked at this sample project. as I understood, I have to do the "dirty" work, i.e. defining the variables, creating the dialog and its controls, and responsible of combining this all together to make it work (retriev all IP addresses of the server, for exsample, and put it...