custom action to register dll not in MSI

[bruceq]

I need to create an MSI package that will register DLLs and OCXs that are not installed in the MSI.

I have a large application with about 150 DLLs / OCXs that need to be registered. The DLLs/OCXs reside on a network share. How can I do this?

The company that I am working with has locked down the registry from their users so that we cannot register the DLLs using a batch file with REGSVR32.

I am told that MSI is the only way that we can do this.

[Kelter]

an msi isn't going to get you past the permissions available on the machine. if you use setup.exe launcher, you can embed a manifest that requires privilege elevation, but just like any executable, this can only elevate privileges as high as any account available on that machine, and only with that user's password provided.