Mar 12, 2010
02:00 PM
Thanks. In the meantime, I've been defining the platform using the Custom option.
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Mar 09, 2010
02:12 PM
Selecting Windows 7 won't work if the prerequisite is specifically for Windows Server 2008 R2 and not for Windows 7. The "Product (OS) Type" setting for the Windows 7 options are either "Any" or "Workstation (VER_NT_WORKSTATION)". When trying to specifically target Windows Server 2008 R2, the "Product (OS) Type" setting would presumably need to be "Server or Domain Controller (VER_NT_SERVER or VER_NT_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER)". Thanks
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Mar 08, 2010
04:39 PM
The Prerequisite Editor in InstallShield 2010 is missing entries for Windows Server 2008 R2. To see this problem, do the following: 1. Start the Prerequisite Editor. 2. Select the Conditions tab. 3. Click the Add button. 4. Select the "Setup is running on a specified platform" radio button. 5. Click the "Select which platform the prerequisite should be run on" combo box. 6. Note that there are no entries listed for Windows Server 2008 R2. A workaround is to manually define the platform using the Custom option. Will InstallShield be updated to fix this problem?
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Sep 23, 2009
12:45 AM
When a Basic MSI installer built using IS2010 that creates and configures a virtual directory in IIS is executed, it seems to create a web.config file in that directory, on Windows OSes with IIS 7.0 or IIS 7.5 (i.e. Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, etc.). This web.config file contains some settings for that virtual directory, such as access permissions, the default document, etc. However, during uninstallation, the web.config file is not deleted and gets left behind. Why does InstallShield leave behind a web.config file that it originally created on its own? Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a simple way to avoid this situation, other than through brute force means like forcing a deletion by adding an entry to the RemoveFile table or adding a dummy web.config file to the installer? Thank you.
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Jul 12, 2009
08:27 PM
Check the directories that InstallShield is retrieving the files from when building the installer. Do the files in these directories already have the read-only attribute set? By default, InstallShield automatically carries over the files' read-only attribute. There are at least two ways to change this: 1. Unset the read-only attribute on the files before building the installer. 2. Go to the File Properties dialog for the file in question and check the "Override system attributes" checkbox. Then uncheck the "Read-only" checkbox. Check or uncheck the other checkboxes as appropriate.
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Jul 12, 2009
08:09 PM
It sounds like your installer is packaged as a setup.exe. Perhaps it might be possible to have the setup.exe itself not request elevation and instead mark the .msi as requiring administrative privileges. This would involve setting "Required Execution Level" to Invoker in the Release properties for the Setup.exe and setting "Require Administrative Privileges" to Yes in the Summary Information Stream area of the General Information view. This way the UI sequence, where your installer is presumably displaying the selection dialog for mapped drives, runs unelevated, while the user would be prompted later for elevation for the execution sequence.
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Jul 12, 2009
07:39 PM
Have you looked at using the InstallShield Automation Interface? It allows for the programmatic creation and modification of InstallShield projects, such as from a script.
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Jul 12, 2009
07:17 PM
Check whether you are using dynamic file linking in your InstallShield project. That feature is known to cause problems, such as the one you've described.
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Jun 22, 2009
01:32 AM
Did you try using the setupini utility described in Acresso KB article Q107253?
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Jun 22, 2009
01:12 AM
There is no need to use custom actions to create event logs and event log sources. Just create the appropriate registry keys and values according to the following Microsoft documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363648(VS.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363661(VS.85).aspx
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Jan 17, 2009
04:09 PM
Windows Installer on all the "server" flavours of Windows, such as Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 behave this way. See http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2005/07/18/442753.aspx Instead of manually setting the DisableMSI registry key, you can also use Group Policy to change the setting, which is more convenient for computers that are members of a Windows domain. Another option is to create a non-MSI installer.
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