[WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Taylor
Hi all, Newbie question: I am working on a WiX project to deploy SQL Server databases to different environments and one of the requirements is the above. So the build process generates one MSI which is then executed on a deployment server passing the target server in as a variable. Two

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Rob Mensching
The Windows Installer supports this using instance transforms. You can read about them in the MSI SDK and see the InstanceTransform element in WiX. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Paul Taylor paul.tay...@collercapital.comwrote: Hi all, Newbie question: I am working on a WiX project to

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Taylor
Cheers, Rob. Looks just what I am after so I'll give it a go. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 14 March 2012 15:08 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Hoover, Jacob
machine. -Original Message- From: Paul Taylor [mailto:paul.tay...@collercapital.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:13 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently Cheers, Rob

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Christopher Painter
...@greenheck.com Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:07 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently Can I ask why you aren't installing

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread John Cooper
From: Hoover, Jacob jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:07 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently Can I ask why

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Taylor
. -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: 14 March 2012 16:04 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently Can I ask why you aren't installing

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Christopher Painter
discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently Application on the server farm and database on a (separate) database server is the norm for my applications. Reality

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Osmond
[mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2012 5:20 AM To: John Cooper; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently Understood. Which actually illustrates why it can make sense to split

Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently

2012-03-14 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; John Cooper Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running a single MSI on the same machine more than once concurrently Hi From experience of shipping to customers an installer that can do both scenarios, the two part install might be intuitive, but it's