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Sep 15, 2007

IS 2008 now logs IIS property values that are being set in application pools. This includes secure properties such as passwords. These should be masked with asterisks. For reference, the adsutil.vbs script included with IIS does this (see the IsSecur...

Sep 15, 2007

I've just converted an IS v12 project to IS 2008 and found a bug in the caCreateVRoots custom action. I've duplicated the problem with a new IS 2008 project and have tried it on three Windows 2003 servers (2 SP2, 1 SP1) and it fails on each. I've att...

May 31, 2016

If your applications and app pools exist and you want them to be re-created, then you should write a custom action to delete them before they are created by the InstallShield custom action.If they don't exist and they're not being created, then the I...

Jan 10, 2013

So would using the automation interface to build the install work for you? It'd be fairly simple to change the product code automatically if you can use it.Kelter wrote:Also, let's say a release includes a change to IIS settings for that web app. If ...

Jan 10, 2013

If you're signing the files included in your install, sign them before building the install. If your MSI is not embedded in setup.exe, then you can sign the MSI and setup.exe after the install is built (or using the Postbuild Event).If your MSI is em...

Jan 10, 2013

Why do you not want to change the product code for each release? If you had a custom bootstrapper, you could generate a transform that changes the product code but I think that would cause problems if you needed to release a patch. It'd be better to ...

Oct 23, 2009

Have you checked which version of the Windows Installer is on the XP machine? Maybe try upgrading it. You can also use Sysinternals Process Explorer to see what command line parameters are being passed to Msiexec.exe.

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