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‎Jan 18, 2010
11:10 AM
questions regarding admin sequence
hi,
i am actually testing admin installs and have following situation:
Normally a user checks the features, which should be installed - and obviously they are installed (depending on some properties the checkboxes activate)
Now, only "extracting" my installation using an admin install, all features are "extracted" ...
How can i influence this behaviour to only install ("extract") certain features?
(i tried to set Remove in the dialog properties, but nonetheless the installation extracts everything)
mary
i am actually testing admin installs and have following situation:
Normally a user checks the features, which should be installed - and obviously they are installed (depending on some properties the checkboxes activate)
Now, only "extracting" my installation using an admin install, all features are "extracted" ...
How can i influence this behaviour to only install ("extract") certain features?
(i tried to set Remove in the dialog properties, but nonetheless the installation extracts everything)
mary
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‎Jan 18, 2010
11:16 AM
my understanding is that admin installs are complete unpackaging of the installer into an uncompressed format, so all files will be unpacked.
Admin installs do not run any of the registry entries, or custom actions at time of install as far as I know since they are meant to be used as a network image to push out to client machines on the network.
Admin installs do not run any of the registry entries, or custom actions at time of install as far as I know since they are meant to be used as a network image to push out to client machines on the network.
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‎Jan 18, 2010
11:19 AM
... would be bad...
i conditionally install some of the features in the same folders - so the last feature wins?!
No chance to influence this behaviour?
mary
i conditionally install some of the features in the same folders - so the last feature wins?!
No chance to influence this behaviour?
mary
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‎Jan 18, 2010
02:24 PM
I think you might be able to do this through careful use of the Directory table. Administrative images follow the source (rather than destination) path component of a Directory table entry. If you use different directory entries, you can vary their source location (and thus where the administrative install places them) without necessarily varying their destination location.
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‎Jan 18, 2010
05:06 PM
Right, you should be able to use the Component setting called Source Location to address this kind of file name collision. The InstallShield help library has more information.
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‎Jan 19, 2010
11:44 AM
@michael and robert:
thanks - your hint did the trick!
struggled a bit with subfolders, but now it works.
mary
thanks - your hint did the trick!
struggled a bit with subfolders, but now it works.
mary
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‎Jan 19, 2010
12:47 PM
another quick question to admin sequences...
i am sure, i read a post about it, but can't find it anymore:
how can i check that i am in "admin sequence mode" from a custom action - i know the property is ACTION=ADMIN but i can't query it in my ca using MsiGetProperty ...
mary
i am sure, i read a post about it, but can't find it anymore:
how can i check that i am in "admin sequence mode" from a custom action - i know the property is ACTION=ADMIN but i can't query it in my ca using MsiGetProperty ...
mary
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‎Jan 19, 2010
01:30 PM
Perhaps try MsiEvaluateCondition? That's assuming you can't just place the action in the Admin sequence, in which case the action would run only when the user performs an administrative installation...
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‎Jan 20, 2010
06:13 AM
@robert:
thanks for your answer, but for clarity i now duplicated and modified my ca and inserted it in the admin sequence only.
mary
thanks for your answer, but for clarity i now duplicated and modified my ca and inserted it in the admin sequence only.
mary
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