We have a installer with auto updates enabled. We have it installed on 4 sites without issue, but on the 5th site, running Server 2008 R2, the scheduled task was not created to run updates. I do not have access to the site, nor was I able to investigate the nature of the issue. What are the reasons ...

This took me a while. Basically you remove the user /password in the Schedule Task command in IA, and set the program option to be /s /update, and uncheck "Interactive task". What this does is use the SYSTEM user to run the update non-interactively (the /s command and unchecking the 'inter...

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I put it in the Perform Uninstallation block.


~InstallAware Clipboard Data~
~Delete Files~
~{F53F7F0E-63EC-4291-894E-53F0B7FE2770}~
~$ENGINECACHE$~
~installedupdates.dat~
~TRUE~
~TRUE~

this is before the red "Apply uninstall" command.

This is probably not ideal to parse the string if you dont have to. this works. Basically pull in the attribute @value then under result type use node value. ~InstallAware Clipboard Data~ ~MessageBox~ ~{4D9F8B1B-AA2F-448A-A504-C81D683C5D3A}~ ~~ ~port is $PORTONE$~ ~0~ ~1~ ~~ ~Evaluate XPath Query~ ~...

I found the issue, it appears that the installedupdates.dat file was not being removed properly on uninstall / upgrade. Not sure why. The solution is to delete the file during install - it's in $ENGINECACHE$ directory.

I was able to fix this by setting the folder permissions of "Creater Owner" to full access. Very annoying but straightforward. It always went away when I reloaded the UI or reloaded the project, but will fail upon build the second time. (First build always works).

I troubleshot a bit further. Starting with a clean install of windows 7, I can generate silent installs from version 1 -> version 2. But when I uninstall version 2, then reinstall version 1, silent installs (to version 2) no longer work. I added code to the script to write to a file at various point...

I was able to get this working very easily, thanks!

Probably yes, let me look. If i attach the .mia file is that sufficient for you or would you like the whole project? I ended up greatly modifying the project to handle just updates, so probably something went awry there. The problem is I can't really troubleshoot it, I'm not sure how far into the in...

We have a product that uses the updating feature of IA (version X2 studio manager), and I am having issues with the silent part. If the user asks to be prompted for download and prompted for install, it updates just fine, from version 1 to version 2. But if the users selects 'do not prompt' for both...

Thanks! I'll take a look ASAP.

Thanks Francesco!

I am using the web updates in version InstallAware X2 Studio Manager. Currently there is user feedback where they would like to disable the required logoff after install to set up the scheduled task to search for updates, is there any way I can script the generation of this task? Basically I'd like ...

Thanks. I deleted the old data and re-tried the uninstall. Same result (there is still an icon in add/remove programs, still registry entries, etc.), but now I have an empty $TARGETDIR$.

This is great. I think the issue is that $TARGETDIR$ has a bunch of stuff that was not in the install package. I'll delete it manually and wipe all traces from the registry, then retry it. So does this mean that $TARGETDIR$ must be clean to be removed, and otherwise the package does not uninstall co...