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ad3246 · ‎Nov 05, 2013

Thanks for your replies. rguggisberg - The project type is Basic MSI and we use this extensively so would prefer to avoid the Advanced Suite project. Christopher - Which EXE is obsolete? We only Servermanagercmd.exe when the installer is run on Windows Server 2008. For later OS versions we use powershell.exe. I couldn’t find anything specific on InstallSite. Did you mean the “Sample Custom Action DLL Written in C++”? Longer term, over the next year, I can look into the C# route, but is there any other methods to achieve what I’m looking for in the short term?

ad3246 · ‎Nov 04, 2013

Some background - our installer needs to install Windows Roles & Features as part of the installation process. We've implemented this using custom actions for different versions of Windows Server. All the custom actions use LauchAppAndWait, and we call Servermanagercmd.exe for Windows Server 2008 and call powershell.exe for Windows Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. This is working well. However, we now want to improve the custom action so that it checks if the Windows Roles & Features we require are already installed, and then only installs them if they are required. For Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 I think I can use "Win32_ServerFeature" within the custom action, but has anyone else done this and if so would you be willing to share your InstallScript code? I'm at a loss for how we can achieve this in Server 2012 now that "Win32_ServerFeature" has been deprecated... I know PowerShell commands will give the answer, but how can we pipe the result back into InstallScript? Or is there another method I've missed...

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Re: Detecting and Installing Windows Role & Features

Detecting and Installing Windows Role & Features

Re: Detecting and Installing Windows Role & Features

Detecting and Installing Windows Role & Features