self healing for a shortcut pointing to a network drive

23 years ago

ictaklas, how are you planning to deploy this msi? I had a similar application that was going to run from the network drive. Once i did my initial msi, i had to open it in Developer and change the drive letter with a variable that you can create. For example, my application had to point to F:\networkdrive\app.exe. So i created a variable name dr_path , where value is equal to F:\ . Then i went to properties of my shortcut and changed it to dr_path\networkdrive\app.exe . If you do not do this, everytime you try to instal this app and drive F: is not present...installation will fail.

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kiev971.5524939900321443E12
23 years ago
ictaklas, how are you planning to deploy this msi? I had a similar application that was going to run from the network drive. Once i did my initial msi, i had to open it in Developer and change the drive letter with a variable that you can create. For example, my application had to point to F:\networkdrive\app.exe. So i created a variable name dr_path , where value is equal to F:\ . Then i went to properties of my shortcut and changed it to dr_path\networkdrive\app.exe . If you do not do this, everytime you try to instal this app and drive F: is not present...installation will fail.
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CChong2 (Flexera)
23 years ago
ictaklas,

You can add UNC path or mapped drive letter to shortcut Target. If mapped drive is not available then set will fail.

For self healing registry key, create registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER and set Key Path to this regsitry entry.
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