Dependency on a Product installed on another machine
Hi, Here's our scenario. We have a product A installed on machine A using IA. Now I want to install product B on machine B.But before I do that,I need to check if product A has been installed (with version check etc) on machine A or not. Any idea how do I go about getting this done ?
It would be a nightmare at best. And I do not understand why you need to perform such a check. Give more details if possible.
WMI Remote Registry etc... come to my mind. These need to be enabled on remote PC.
But all this needs a mutual understanding between machines and OSs on them. Also, opening up of such channels of communication would be a security challenge as well.
Well, ours is a suite of products.And all of these products can be installed on different boxes.These products depend on a core/base product that can be deployed on machine of your choice. So if I have installed core on machine A and now I want to install product XYZ on machine B,I just need to make sure that the core/base has been installed somewhere before proceeding further! I guess using IA one can check for dependencies within the same installer or on the same box.But can IA do a remote registry check to see if a particular component has been installed or not ?
We have a custom action which makes a http request to the other machine, and given a valid reply assumes that the other machine has a valid install. How do your products communicate with one another? If you could simulate a normal handshake, you can figure out if product A is installed or not
