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Hi,
Does anyone know what do the following, bold entries from the install log mean?
MSI (c) (08:24) [10:18:11:117]: Client-side and UI is none or basic: Running entire install on the server.
MSI (c) (08:24) [10:18:11:117]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (08:24) [10:18:11:688]: Cloaking enabled.
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MSI (s) (38:74) [10:18:29:706]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSI70F9.tmp, Entrypoint: SFStartupEx
MSI (s) (38:78) [10:18:29:706]: Generating random cookie.
MSI (s) (38:78) [10:18:29:727]: Created Custom Action Server with PID 9084 (0x237C).
MSI (s) (38:54) [10:18:31:255]: Running as a service.
MSI (s) (38:54) [10:18:31:303]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Impersonated custom action server.
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MSI (s) (38:6C) [10:18:33:349]: SECREPAIR: Hash Database: C:\Windows\Installer\SourceHash{81E23A55-92D0-402B-BB1A-F33A1F5734C6}
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1. Cloaking enabled
2. Generating random cookie
3. Hello, I'm your 32bit Impersonated custom action server
4. SECREPAIR
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Hi @mikomada ,
Few details if that could answer your questions:
- Cloaking enabled.-Cloaking is a COM security capability that determines what identity the client projects toward the server during impersonation.During installation MSI engine enables this property for impersonation
- Generating random cookie-not much information from MSI related documents
- Hello, I'm your 32bit Impersonated custom action server.-
- Windows installer starts additional instances of msiexec.exe to host custom actions that are either scripts or DLLs.
- No custom actions are ever run under the msiexec.exe instance that presents the UI because that instance is exposed to the user and desktop environment.
- Instead an additional msiexec.exe instance is started with the user's security token (essentially "logged in as the user") - this is done for custom actions that are not marked "system" context".
- So it is basically a message that shows windows installer service's communication with server for Custom Action purposes
- SECREPAIR-It is general message printed by MSI engine when trying to create HASH for the target file
Thanks,
Jenifer
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Hi @mikomada ,
Few details if that could answer your questions:
- Cloaking enabled.-Cloaking is a COM security capability that determines what identity the client projects toward the server during impersonation.During installation MSI engine enables this property for impersonation
- Generating random cookie-not much information from MSI related documents
- Hello, I'm your 32bit Impersonated custom action server.-
- Windows installer starts additional instances of msiexec.exe to host custom actions that are either scripts or DLLs.
- No custom actions are ever run under the msiexec.exe instance that presents the UI because that instance is exposed to the user and desktop environment.
- Instead an additional msiexec.exe instance is started with the user's security token (essentially "logged in as the user") - this is done for custom actions that are not marked "system" context".
- So it is basically a message that shows windows installer service's communication with server for Custom Action purposes
- SECREPAIR-It is general message printed by MSI engine when trying to create HASH for the target file
Thanks,
Jenifer
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Thank you Jenifer
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