Hello Candice You said: Actually, InstallShield/Wise simply display an error and quit in this case... Sorry to have to correct you, but this is simply not the case. In both IS and Wise, if your 'Update Code' (which is the equivalent of InstallAware's 'Product Code') remains unchanged between builds ...

Hi Michael; I have created several SQL Server test installations now that install SQL Express. Each and every one of them will go through the motions first described by Earl and by myself of a uninstall, unpack and reinstall of SQL Express if I do the following: A) Run the my setup. B) make a SQL sc...

Hi Jim;
Great news! I'm very happy to see this coming from IA.

I will PM you with the script from my project

Thanks again for you help!
Steve

Hi Trent; I too am experiencing the prerequisite for SQL Server 2005 failure on a reinstall. I also thought you should know that if you uninstall, then reinstall, from that point on you will find that all future reinstalls will go through a SQL installation check and time consuming unpacking before ...

Hi Earl; I've been struggling with same problem that you describe for quite some time now. I have found that in both IA native SQL Database and in the new Alternate SQL, my script will not create the database no matter how I approach it. If I enable the 'Create database if absent' checkbox both nati...

Thanks very much Martin.

I'll give this a try and post my results.

Steve

Hello Candice, Michael made me aware of this plugin during the Christmas holidays because I have had no success getting IA's native 'Standard' SQL Database Server Configuration to work with my SQL script. I have been testing with this new 'Alternate SQL Plugin' for most of this week, and I'm sorry t...

Hello all; I am encountering some uninstall problems that appear to be caused by Windows default 'Use Simple File Sharing' option (that is turned on in all Windows 2000 and XP installs by default). I am wondering if anyone has any experience with how to turn off Windows 'Simple File Sharing' mode wh...

Hello fellow IA'ers; Best wishes to all for a happy and prosperous New Year. I have noticed that many newer Microsoft applications inform the user that the installer is "setting a System Restore Point" at the very beginning of an installation. Undoubtedly this is probably are very good ide...

Hi Trent. Thanks very much for your repsonse. I can certainly understand your QA groups perpective. My difficulty lies in the fact the the required prerequisites take so long to install, that we want to save the user the time and frustration should they be unable to proceed with the installation. I ...

Hi Michael, thanks for your response. I was wondering if that was the purpose of 'Special-> Boot Path'. I should mention that there is nothing in the documentation regarding this or most of the other variables in the list, so using $MYBOOTPATH$ would not have been an option I would have known about ...

Thanks for your reply Gizm0 You said :"EDIT: By looking at your screenshot again, i found the error.. DISABLE the option "Create Database If absent", because you have a CREATE DATABASE in your OWN script. You try to create the database TWICE, an error occurs and aborts the script.&quo...

Hi Michael, Per your suggestion, I have installed SQL Express using both Mixed Mode and also Authenticated mode, both to no avail. The database is simply not being created with the the tables, etc that the script is supposed to create. So to briefly summarize the status: >I install SQL Express 2005 ...

When I have selected some application runtimes to be included in my installation such as ‘Microsoft Server Express 2005’, .’NET Framework 2.0’, ‘Microsoft VB Virtual Machine 6.0’, I notice that upon running my installation package, it displays a screen telling me that the listed prerequisites need t...

I am trying to figure out how to install files into a folder on the root of the Windows Volume (in other words, the root of C:\\) IN InstallShield and Wise there was a variable for this called 'WinVol'. There does not appear to be any such variable in IA. Can you please enlighten me on how to do thi...