[WiX-users] msi failed in uninstallation

2014-11-12 Thread Mohamed Yasir
Hi, I have created two msi file (sample1 sample2) using wix toolset3.8. While uninstalling msi through wix custom bootstrapper,it shows an below error. MSI (s) (20:94) [01:01:37:045]: Resolving source to launched-from source. MSI (s) (20:94) [01:01:37:045]: Setting launched-from source as

Re: [WiX-users] Package download failed in Web Installer

2014-11-12 Thread Mohamed Yasir
Hi, I have modifed the URL while posting due to security resons. Also i have been given valid URL in bundle file. http:\\{Domain}\{Folder}\samplefile.msi. Regards, Mohamed Yasir K -- View this message in context:

[WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Package download failed in Web Installer

2014-11-12 Thread Phill Hogland
OK, that makes sense. Did you use Fiddler (or similar) to evaluate why you are getting network failures? Since you are reporting having network problems on both install and uninstall, related to this package, it seems like determining the core cause of those problems is needed. I have several

[WiX-users] setting permissions when creating folder...

2014-11-12 Thread Steve-Ogilvie
Hi all, I am setting a permission on a folder: Component Id=quot;cmp_ProgramDataPermServquot; Guid=quot;lt;some guid Permanent=no Shared=no CreateFolder util:PermissionEx User=NETWORK SERVICE GenericWrite=yes GenericRead=yes / /CreateFolder This has been

Re: [WiX-users] LogPathVariable not working

2014-11-12 Thread Partyka, Rouslan
Hello, I have a bundle with 3 chained MSI's. I want it to put all (!) the log files to a specified folder. Does anyone have a code sample that actually WORKS? I checked the web, I tried LogPathVariable, Variable/ and Log/ in various combinations - to no avail. Many thanks in advance.

Re: [WiX-users] setting permissions when creating folder...

2014-11-12 Thread John Cooper
Probably because a German Windows 7 has a localized NETWORK SERVICE. What is the name of NETWORK SERVICE on the German machine? Should be pretty obvious from just looking at running services. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing

[WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder...

2014-11-12 Thread Phill Hogland
Use the Well-Known SID to look up the localized name for built-in accounts. I think the C# code would look like this: string aSID = new SecurityIdentifier(WellKnownSidType.LocalServiceSid, null).ToString(); string domain_localService = new

Re: [WiX-users] setting permissions when creating folder...

2014-11-12 Thread Carter Young
There's another thread here regarding a Finnish Language Install that's causing the same problem for the Users group if you'd like a little reading material... Quoting John Cooper jocoo...@jackhenry.com: Probably because a German Windows 7 has a localized NETWORK SERVICE. What is the

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder...

2014-11-12 Thread Carter Young
This also needs to be posted in the Finnish language Pack post... Quoting Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com: Use the Well-Known SID to look up the localized name for built-in accounts. I think the C# code would look like this: string aSID = new

Re: [WiX-users] setting permissions when creating folder... [P]

2014-11-12 Thread Steve-Ogilvie
Classification: Public So below is to translate localservice built in account, cool Thanks, Steve Sigh Why would Microsoft localize specific accounts, guest/administrator/network service/localsystem etc... sigh... [Latest TITUS News!]http://www.titus.com/TMCPolicy_footer_link_landingpage.php

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder...

2014-11-12 Thread John Cooper
These properties in the Util extension may also be useful: Fragment Property Id=WIX_ACCOUNT_LOCALSYSTEM Secure=yes / CustomActionRef Id=WixQueryOsWellKnownSID / /Fragment Fragment Property Id=WIX_ACCOUNT_LOCALSERVICE Secure=yes / CustomActionRef

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder... [GB]

2014-11-12 Thread Steve-Ogilvie
Classification: General Business So I would use: util:PermissionEx User=[WIX_ACCOUNT_NETWORKSERVICE] GenericWrite=yes GenericRead=yes / ?? Steve [Latest TITUS News!]http://www.titus.com/TMCPolicy_footer_link_landingpage.php This message has been marked as General Business by Steven

Re: [WiX-users] setting permissions when creating folder... [P]

2014-11-12 Thread Carter Young
If you were German, Russian etc, would you like it if Microsoft was to say, We're lazy, and we're ignoring all i18n standards so all our important users and groups will be in English. If I were German or Russian I'd be a little peeved, which is why the UserID Number is the same in all

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder... [GB]

2014-11-12 Thread John Cooper
This thread involving Neal may help: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/PermissionEx-and-WixQueryOsWellKnownSID-properties-td788238.html Once upon a time he had the same problem. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications |

[WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Language packs difference causing installation to fail.

2014-11-12 Thread Phill Hogland
I have noticed this issue today, with Wix 3.9.1006 in the simplest msi setup project, which makes no reference to any security element (or any other extension), when there is not a reference in the project to WixUtilExtension. Adding the WixUtilExtension referenced silenced this build error.

Re: [WiX-users] msi failed in uninstallation

2014-11-12 Thread Phil Wilson
The obvious question to ask is whether the MSI file actually is there at that location, which seems an odd location (it's where cached MSIs are). If it is there, it had better be the same package and product code as the original install, that's a requirement. Also check the permissions to that

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder... [GB]

2014-11-12 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Classification: General Business Right but he says: I have resolved this now (see earlier post) but I am on Windows XP (and Vista) and I am fairly sure that WIX_ACCOUNT_NETWORKSERVICE or the others do not work with PermissionsEx, I have looked at the code and I don't see anything to handle it.

Re: [WiX-users] Generate mst files based on wixout instead of MSIs (to reduce build time)

2014-11-12 Thread SE
Hi Tobias, I'm also trying to build the .mst based on the .wixout instead the .msi Do you have any insight on the subject? Did you managed to fix it out? TNX -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Generate mst files based on wixout instead of MSIs (to reduce build time)

2014-11-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Rule #1: You must use bindpaths in your RTM msi. -Original Message- From: SE [mailto:evensi...@gmail.com] Sent: November-12-14 1:59 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Generate mst files based on wixout instead of MSIs (to reduce build time) Hi Tobias,

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Localizing Managed BA

2014-11-12 Thread gowri.malasani
Thanks Phill, my MBA is also hosted in another application. But application that hosts my MBA does not have any resources, also I do not have one resource file for each language as I use Passolo to generate satellite assemblies for me. I used one of the great features of Passolo to generate

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder... [GB]

2014-11-12 Thread Steve-Ogilvie
so is using this okay?? [WIX_ACCOUNT_NETWORKSERVICE]? util:PermissionEx User=[WIX_ACCOUNT_NETWORKSERVICE] GenericWrite=yes GenericRead=yes / -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] torch.exe isn't getting DLLs from the extension assembly

2014-11-12 Thread SE
Hi, I'm also trying to build the .mst based on the .wixout instead the .msi Did you managed to create .mst from .wixmst? TNX -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Active directory browser

2014-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
I don't know if it would be any use, but Apache has a suite of AD/LDAP tools/libraries at http://directory.apache.org/studio/ . -- Bruce On Nov 11, 2014, at 10:12 PM, pezmannen pezman...@gmail.com wrote: My setup includes several dialogs where you need to specify different Active

Re: [WiX-users] Active directory browser

2014-11-12 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Or create a custom MBA and use the existing framework bits from .Net. Then you can just property drive the MSI. On Nov 12, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: I don't know if it would be any use, but Apache has a suite of AD/LDAP tools/libraries at

[WiX-users] MSI built with Wix requiring MS Office 2003 PIA

2014-11-12 Thread William Ferguson
Apologies if this is a repost, but I think the first post may not have got through because it contained images instead of links to same. I have built an MSI using Wix and the MSI executes fine on Windws 8.1 with Office 2013, WIndows 7 with no Office install, but I had a report from a reputable

Re: [WiX-users] MSI built with Wix requiring MS Office 2003 PIA

2014-11-12 Thread John Cooper
How is this installer assembled? Is there a merge module involved? -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original

[WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: Localizing Managed BA

2014-11-12 Thread Phill Hogland
There are different approaches to doing localization in a managed context, and since this is a .Net issue and not specifically related to WiX I did not find a specific document with steps on how to do it. Yes I localize my mba for en, de, es, it, ja, and zh. My approach was a little different

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: Localizing Managed BA

2014-11-12 Thread gowri.malasani
Thanks Phill, Yes I tried with en-US as that is how I did for my other C#/.Net assemblies that works. Then I came across an article that talks about using Decimal identifiers for languages, but I guess that is only for wix translations! I am sure there must be something I am missing, which is

Re: [WiX-users] MSI built with Wix requiring MS Office 2003 PIA

2014-11-12 Thread William Ferguson
Hi John, I am using Wix Toolset 3.8 via wix-maven-plugin-1.1.1 There are no merge modules. The wix-maven-plugin uses the WixUtilExtension and the WixUIExtension. William On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:51 AM, John Cooper jocoo...@jackhenry.com wrote: How is this installer assembled? Is there a

Re: [WiX-users] MSI built with Wix requiring MS Office 2003 PIA

2014-11-12 Thread William Ferguson
OK, ignore this. Turns out the MSI being distributed was not the same one that I had built. All is good with the world again. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:19 AM, William Ferguson william.fergu...@xandar.com.au wrote: Hi John, I am using Wix Toolset 3.8 via wix-maven-plugin-1.1.1 There are no