Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-05-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites The software I am installing is pretty complex. One of the MSI's creates 60 databases, and executes about 30Mb of SQL scripts. Verifying a working connection to SQL is a must, and I have since realized that installing as a prerequisite

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-05-01 Thread Nick Miller
...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 1:47 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites I have to say this seems like an odd requirement, I have an application that needs SQL Express and I have structure the BA to detect SQL

[WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-04-30 Thread Nick Miller
Hi All, Is there a way to define prerequisites that need to be installed before the BA loads? For example, I want burn to install SQL express before loading the bootstrapper application. The reason for this is my BA checks SQL connectivity before beginning the install process. I need to

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Mensching
The mbapreq does this for BA's written in managed code. It's not simple but you can see how it works in the code under src\ext\BalExtension\mba\host and src\ext\BalExtension\wixstdba On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Nick Miller nmil...@livetechnology.comwrote: Hi All, Is there a way to

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-04-30 Thread Nick Miller
Thanks, I'll take a look -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:21 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites The mbapreq does this for BA's written in managed

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites

2013-04-30 Thread Neil Sleightholm
[mailto:nmil...@livetechnology.com] Sent: 30 April 2013 22:05 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [WiX-users] Burn Prerequisites Hi All, Is there a way to define prerequisites that need to be installed before the BA loads

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-14 Thread Rob Mensching
February 2013 20:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement For me, running dism.exe only worked if I put in the full path. Not sure why that is. Eric On Tue, Feb 5, 2013

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
DCIM should be on the path so adding C:\Windows\system32 shouldn't be necessary. -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: 04 February 2013 22:09 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-05 Thread Eric Schultz
, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: 04 February 2013 22:09 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement Depending on C:\Windows\system32 would break on non-default

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
...@outercurve.org] Sent: 05 February 2013 20:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement For me, running dism.exe only worked if I put in the full path. Not sure why

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Eric Schultz
; } } } Hope this helps. Neil -Original Message- From: Hans ter Horst [mailto:hoshis...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 February 2013 07:17 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Marc Fauser
On 2013-02-04 22:29, Eric Schultz wrote: All, I've created a simple ExeRunner application that can be embedded into your bundle and then be called to run a command on the destination computer. To install .NET Framework 3.5 and less on Win 8, the entire command line would be: ExeRunner.exe

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Because burn will only run exes packaged in a release. It won't run arbitrary exes. -Original Message- From: Marc Fauser [mailto:marc.fau...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 February 2013 21:37 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Cool thanks :) -Original Message- From: Eric Schultz [mailto:eschu...@outercurve.org] Sent: February-04-13 4:30 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement All, I've

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-04 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Depending on C:\Windows\system32 would break on non-default installs... -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 3:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-01 Thread Hans ter Horst
. Neil -Original Message- From: Hans ter Horst [mailto:hoshis...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 February 2013 07:17 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement I didn't see

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-31 Thread Hans ter Horst
I didn't see an answer regarding this question and I'm sort of stuck on this. Does anybody have an idea how to handle the different way Windows 2012 Server behaves if a prerequisite is defined as a server feature? Thanks, Hans On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Hans ter Horst hoshis...@gmail.com

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-31 Thread Rob Mensching
I think someone created a custom exe to handle this scenario in the archives. Be nice to have a more ideal solution built in but no one has coded that yet. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Hans ter Horst hoshis...@gmail.comwrote: I didn't see an answer regarding this question and I'm sort of

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-31 Thread Neil Sleightholm
. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement I didn't see an answer regarding this question and I'm sort of stuck on this. Does anybody have an idea how to handle the different way Windows 2012 Server behaves if a prerequisite is defined

[WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-30 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, My program has a .NET 3.5 prerequisite and I have used Burn and the standard code successfully on Windows Server 2008 SP2. On Windows Server 2012 however, .NET 3.5 and many other prerequisites need to be installed via the Server Manager as features instead and cannot be installed via an MSI

Re: [WiX-users] BURN Prerequisites Detection Issue

2012-10-13 Thread Rob Mensching
If you have a BA that only uses NETFX v3.5, then you need to ensure that v3.5 is installed. Otherwise, you need to say that your BA can use NETFX v3.5 and/or NETFX 4. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Javier Ibanez jaiba...@harriague.com.arwrote: Hi, I'm writing a bundle with a custom BA

[WiX-users] BURN Prerequisites Detection Issue

2012-10-11 Thread Javier Ibanez
Hi, I'm writing a bundle with a custom BA compiled with .NET 3.5. I have added the right supported frameworks in the config file (v2.0.50727) and I'm using WixNetFxExtension to install 4.0 if 3.5 is not installed. I run the following test: 1) On a Win7 machine with 3.5.1 installed, I