Can anyone explain how the property values in the Win32_Product WMI Class get populated or map to Windows Installer properties in a MSI package?
I have a problem where after my MSI installation package is installed and when I query all installed packages using the Win32_Product WMI Class my products Win32_Product.Name and Win32_Product.Caption properties are empty.
I have a valid DisplayName entry under the registry HK_LM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ key. Other MSI packages I maintain all are working ok it’s just my one main MSI that has the problem. I cannot work out what is going wrong here.
Unfortunately, we don't have any information as to where the source values come from for these properties. If I had to guess, the data probably comes from the private configuration data Windows Installer maintains in the registry. However, all this data is populated based on information contained in an MSI package during installation. You may try validating this particular MSI package to see if there are any issues flagged with the ProductName property or any other required properties.
