It is surprising that IA support is not giving out correct info. You actually need to change setting in the 'Build Settings' under 'Design' tab. It has nothing to do with compression. There in Build type, you need to check "Uncompressed directory Layout" and "Build MSI outputs instead...

Don't forget to set the mode back to 32 bit after reading the registry

Set Win32 - Native 32 bit Windows and Windows 32 on Windows 64 (WOW64) - installation mode

Issue resolved. programming error.
We forgot to save return result in WIZARD variable in 'Display Dialog' UI.

I'm using non-modal Dialog progress in my script and then displaying a modal dialog box. 50: Display Dialog: progress, use as progress dialog (non-modal) . . 100: Display Dialog: db_settings, wait for dialog to return (modal) The "db_settings" dialog has Back, Next, and Cancel button enabl...

Our installation program requires user to enter a password and that password has to match password complexity (in particular the minimum length required) of the Window OS (windows command 'NET ACCOUNTS'). What we would like to do is to show the minimum length in the dialog box as a text on the dialo...

Is it possible to get value of 'Password" which is 'P@ssword1' from this XML text using XPath command? I was able to get the entire string using following command: Evaluate Query //configuration/connectionStrings/add[@name="UDS"] on XML file $PROGRAMDATAFOLDER$\Web\Web.config, get res...

Not sure what I was doing wrong, but it is now working. Please ignore my question.

Hard coded path works fine: BACKUP DATABASE [MYDB] TO DISK = 'C:\ProgramData\SQLServerBackup_HC.bak' Using variable in path doesn't work: Set Variable PROGRAMDATAFOLDER to C:\ProgramData BACKUP DATABASE [MYDB] TO DISK = '$PROGRAMDATAFOLDER$\SQLServerBackup_VAR.bak' It tries to append the DISK path t...

Sorry for the late reply but it does shows 'COMPLETE'

Not sure what I'm missing, but following code doesn't work. Write Registry Key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL14.TEST\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\Tcp\IPAll\TcpDynamicPorts, 11422 (permanent) Apply Install Set Variable SQLTCPDynamicPN to Read Registry Key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...

Would "Reboot and Login" would allow user to access Windows desktop, task bar while installation is resumed after reboot.

Would "Reboot and Login" would allow user to access Windows desktop, task bar while installation is resumed after reboot.

I'm trying to understand how to create installation package WITHOUT cache. I cleared the "Always Cache Setup Sources" option in Build Settings but it still creates a cache folder in %ProgramData% folder.

We are seeing same issue on Windows 10. Any fix for this?

Please refer to forum post: https://www.installaware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10791&p=41264&hilit=SINGLEINSTANCE#p41264 {8B9AC72B-AC63-434E-B63C-02D12949B1B7}.mia file is created when you build a project with "SINGLEINSTANCE" set to TRUE in Global Settings. This flag is u...