Aug 09, 2016
10:23 AM
We are having the same issue, but from our InstallShield Chain installation. So searching around we found that the "Advanced Installer User Guide" (http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/faq-errors.html#question123) states that this issue and other uninstall issues from the Settings -> System -> Apps & Features menu are actually Windows 10 bugs.. So if this is true then is there anything that can be done about this or do we have to wait for a fix from Microsoft???
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Aug 09, 2016
10:21 AM
We are having the same issue, but from our InstallShield Chain installation. So searching around we found that the "Advanced Installer User Guide" (http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/faq-errors.html#question123) states that this issue and other uninstall issues from the Settings -> System -> Apps & Features menu are actually Windows 10 bugs.. So if this is true then is there anything that can be done about this or do we have to wait for a fix from Microsoft???
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Oct 09, 2013
01:12 PM
We have an install that supports all OS's except for Win9x, WinNT and Windows 2000. We set this all up though Project Assistant - Installation Requirements and the condition looks like the following: (Not Version9X) And (Not VersionNT=400) And (Not VersionNT=500) Now we have decided that this app will NO longer support Vista and therefore in the Installation Requirements I unselected Windows Vista and the new condition looks like the following: (Not Version9X) And (Not VersionNT=400) And (Not VersionNT=500) And (Not (VersionNT=600 And (MsiNTProductType=1))) So the new entry: And (Not (VersionNT=600 And (MsiNTProductType=1))) basically states that to not install if VersionNT is 600 and it's MsiNTProductType is 1, which means it is Windows 2000 Professional and later. The MsiNTProductType can be: 1 - Windows 2000 Professional and later 2 - Windows 2000 domain controller and later 3 - Windows 2000 Server and later So it looks basically correct as Vista should be under (1) as a Windows professional version and not a domain controller or server. But the issue is if I then go back to Project Assistant - Installation Requirements I notice that Windows 2008 Server is no longer selected. This condition seems to have turned off Vista and Windows 2008 Server. So I just want to confirm that this condition will make it so that it does not install on Vista, but if ran on 2008 Server that it would still install. Not that any of our customers will, but I just want to verify. So will this condition work as expected or do I have to manually change it to work as expected? Thanks,
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Jul 17, 2013
08:20 AM
Okay Christopher from what you know or have found out there is currently no way, through the install, to have a shortcut created on the Win 8.1 Start screen? If this is the case then we'll have to update some of out installs/documentation that asks users if they want desktop icons as they will not go where they expect them. Thanks, Tim.
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Jul 16, 2013
08:58 AM
hsteinbeck, did you ever get your shortcuts to install on the Windows 8.1 Start Screen? If so what settings/properties did you have to do to get it to work? From all the infomation that I have found so far it looks like Microsoft changed things from Win 8 to 8.1 so that installs can control what goes into the All App, but the user controls what goes on the Start Screen by manually moving/modifing the shortcuts on the Start Screen. So just need to know if we can or not and if not then we'll have to document for our users to know they have to make changes manually. Thanks.
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Jun 12, 2012
07:51 AM
Did you ever find out if you can change the fond within a string so that you can say just bold a single word or substring of larger string?
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May 23, 2012
12:27 PM
We are using Basic MSI install projects and therefore not using scripts for this. The System Search help mentions that the if the file is found and within the min and max version numbers that it would then set the property, but as stated it is finding the file, but with a lower version number than what is set for the min value and it sets the property as if the condition passed. So I just want to know why it passed the condition, even though the version number is NOT in the min/max range.... Thanks,
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May 23, 2012
10:59 AM
I am using the System Search to find a file .exe that has a specific version range. So I set the Minimum version to 11.1.0.0 and Maximum Version to 11.1.999.0 so that it will, if the file exist within that version range, set the FILE_FOUND property. Now I am doing testing on this property and my first test was to install on a system that has this file installed with the version number of 11.0.579.0. The property got set even though the version of the file does not fall within the min/max range. Why did this not work in this case? I tryed with a few more apps that had to be looked for and again I am installing on a system with all the .exe file version lower than the Min version entry and again all of the properties were set as if it passed the versioning check. So am I doing something wrong in the App search and therefore it is ignoring the version check and just setting the property because it found the file? If this is the case then how do I get it to correct use the versioning range for the condition to set the property? Thanks for any help.
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May 10, 2012
03:05 PM
The main reason we wanted this for the Chain is because the vast majority of our customers perform GPO pushes with our software and therefore one of the main requirements are for us to supply .msi solutions for pushing out our software. A chain therefore provides a single .msi file instead of multiple .msi products. We are looking into at least making the Chain handle minor upgrades, creating custom actions that will detect what is installed and to be installed and determine if the install is to be Major/Clean, Minor, New, or repair. So hopefully we can get this working. We have not yet tried Suite product as we actually have our own that we created before your's came out that currently handles installing like a Chain, but can correctly handle Minor, Major, New, and repair modes. It also allows us to trigger custom actions throught out the process, which I did not see in your Suite installer, unless I missed something there.. Thanks,
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May 10, 2012
12:46 PM
We have an install that has some public properties that are defaulted to 1 that will enable some custom actions to be triggered. If the admin does not want these custom actions to trigger then they set these 2 properties to 0 and push them to the installer. Now this works correctly as expected, but we have now ran into an issue where we created a hotfix patch (.msp) for our product that simply only has some file changes and then when we apply this patch it seems that the 2 custom actions that were not triggered in the original install are suddenly triggered in the patch. Checking it looks like the patch simply used the default values of these properties and therefore triggered these custom actions. So I would like to know why the patch did not use the cached value of these properties? How do we prevent propeties that were changed from default re-verting back to default on a patch/minoro upgrade? Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks,
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May 07, 2012
12:07 PM
Michael, could you let me know where in development case #IOC-000079413 is and is there any expected release date for this? For Chaining we require Major/Minor and Patch support and therefore if it will be coming out soon then that would be great. Thanks,
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Apr 23, 2012
01:54 PM
Okay thanks for the information Josh. So if it is a flat layout then what do we have to do in our IS 2012 install project to create a tile group so that it will look better and not crowd the Start Screen? So what ever we have to do to make this group would also have to make sure that it is conditioned to only occur on Windows 8. What would be the VersionNT value for Windows 8? Windows 7 is 601 and WindowsBuild is greater than 7100. Thanks,
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Apr 19, 2012
08:36 AM
Well actually the old style desktop icons did actually look correct, but looking at the Metro-style UI our start menu shortcuts all go to the same level and are all visible. So what do we have to do to avoid the way our shortcuts are displayed? Attached is an image of what they look like after install.
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Apr 18, 2012
09:32 AM
Has anyone started looking at installs on Windows 8 and the new Metro interface? We have just started noticed some issues already with icons desktop shortcuts... What kinds of issues can we expect and work arounds that we would have to support before an updated IS can come out? Thanks,
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Apr 03, 2012
10:10 AM
So Rob have you gotten anywhere with this request? We also have the same issue, where we have 6 main products and about 54 language pack installers attached to our parent Chain and since we have not yet got Minor Upgrades working we are strictly performing Major Upgrades only with the Chain. So when we update the product codes of the individual projects we then have to remember to update all these product codes in the Chain.... What a pain, and if we forget then even though the product chain still builds and installs, it will not uninstall any of the products that have a changed product code. It would be nice if IS would refresh the Product Code's when loading the project, or have a button to refresh the product code when ever we update them... Thanks,
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