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alphacz · ‎Feb 05, 2009

Thanks for the reply. It is going to be a file contents merge. I was thinking what you described below was the way we were going to have to do it, but wasn't sure if there is more of a best practice in solving this. My guess is there isn't because of the volatility of merges; each case may be different...

alphacz · ‎Feb 04, 2009

All, I am wondering if anyone has any general strategies in regards to the following: We have a server application that is built using InstallShield (MSI). This server application contains many jsp files. Our customers like to modify these jsp files to do all sorts of things - modifying these files it is something we support. So here is the problem: Before they upgrade to the said latest version, they essentially need to take a backup of the JSP directory and then post upgrade, perform a manual diff of the backup vs the latest JSP directory. Then they need to re-merge in their customizations (we probably made changes to the jsp files in the new version). Does anyone have any strategies regarding dealing with these kinds of file customizations and merging them in upon an upgrade (or uninstall and reinstall)? I'm wondering if we'd need to acquire a commercial merge tool of some sort to do this automatically, but I'd love to hear of other suggestions... Thanks.

alphacz · ‎Dec 31, 2008

Have you tried completely deleting the release off of your hard drive and trying again? Make sure to shut down and reopen InstallShield before retrying the build...

alphacz · ‎Dec 31, 2008

If it is indeed a problem, it could be an issue with file costing. I hate to state the obvious, but when you say "selected" did you select the feature for installation? What happens when you select "This feature, and all subfeatures, will be installed on local hard drive"?

alphacz · ‎Dec 31, 2008

Hmm... are you sure you've defined your product name everywhere it needs to be: Summary Information Stream Product Properties Are you perhaps overriding it with "" in the "Releases" tab? (not sure if you can do this, just a theory)

alphacz · ‎Dec 31, 2008

I believe the problem is that the INSTALLDIR property hasn't been initialized yet (via the directory table). You'll need to sequence your custom action after CostFinalize, which is when all of the directory properties are resolved. From MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368295.aspx

alphacz · ‎Dec 31, 2008

Weird, you may want to try uninstalling and reinstalling InstallShield, as you should get these automatically. Can you view the 2.0 redistributable when you open the pre-requisite editor? Default location for pre-reqs as far as I know is [ProgramFilesFolder]Macrovision\IS2008\SetupPrerequisites You're saying the 2.0 pre-reqs don't exist in the folder above?

alphacz · ‎Dec 31, 2008

I'm pretty sure InstallShield comes with a bunch of pre-requisites already defined - and .NET 2.0 is included - IA64,x64, etc. Use the pre-requisite editor to examine these; they've already done the work you are describing for you...

alphacz · ‎Dec 31, 2008

Several of our clients use System Center Configuration Manager to push out updates and such. Also, you can look into using Group Policy to create some sort of login script that runs the update when the client logs on, etc. The other thing you may want to consider is InstallShield's update service. I don't have much experience with it, but you may want to look into it. -Chris

alphacz · ‎Dec 31, 2008

Weird; I am using this property in a similar fashion and am not getting this error. What happens directly before: InstallShield 14:09:16: SetaData failed with HRESULT: -2147024846. The request is not supported. Is it attempting to create the virtual directory, web site, app pool, etc? Also, does this happen in all of your Vista environments? (is it possible some pre-req isn't installed correctly...)

alphacz · ‎Dec 19, 2008

On the virtual directory tab, fill out the "Application Settings" section.

alphacz · ‎Dec 19, 2008

Are you marking your components as "Shared"? In this case you should... that way the reference count will be increased so when you uninstall, the corresponding files shouldn't be removed. Also, make sure each one of your components has a key file.

alphacz · ‎Nov 25, 2008

Are you requiring Administrative privileges for your install? Any user attempting to install anything to that folder in Vista must have admin privileges. Not sure why other dlls are working OK going to that folder...

alphacz · ‎Nov 25, 2008

If you're running as user 'a' and you want things put into user 'b's profile, you may need to employ something like Advertised Shortcuts or Active Setup (not recommended if you can help it in my experience) to run a repair of the install to install the files to where you want. Chris

alphacz · ‎Nov 06, 2008

Hello all, Does anyone know of a way to apply a QuickPatch to multiple MSIs? Essentially, I have two releases within one project; one release is a smaller subset of the main release. I'd like to easily build a single QuickPatch that would patch both of these releases with just file based changes. I understand that there seems to be a limitation based on package code with a 1-1 QuickPatch build requirement, but with regular patches built within the IDE, this is possible, so why not QuickPatches? Any ideas? Thanks!

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Look into Group Policy or System Center Configuration Manager

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QuickPatch applied to multiple MSIs?