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rojomoke
Level 3
‎Sep 12, 2014 03:35 AM

Running Install Script with Elevated Privileges

We're trying to get our installation to run with UAC turned on. Our install script contains several calls to regasm and ngen executables. It therefore needs to run with elevated privileges. Setting the Required Execution Level works for the Setup.exe, but I can't do the same for installation using the .msi file.
I've set "Require Administrative Privileges" to "Yes" in the Summary Information Stream, but the installation runs without calling regasm and the .tlb files we require are not created.

I'm a user with Admin rights, running InstallShield 2011 on Windows 7. What else do I need to do?
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mikequentel
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‎Nov 07, 2014 04:07 PM

rojomoke wrote:
We're trying to get our installation to run with UAC turned on. Our install script contains several calls to regasm and ngen executables. It therefore needs to run with elevated privileges. Setting the Required Execution Level works for the Setup.exe, but I can't do the same for installation using the .msi file.
I've set "Require Administrative Privileges" to "Yes" in the Summary Information Stream, but the installation runs without calling regasm and the .tlb files we require are not created.

I'm a user with Admin rights, running InstallShield 2011 on Windows 7. What else do I need to do?


Suggest trying to launch command prompt as Administrator then run 
msiexec /i software_to_be_installed.msi
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