Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

2013-03-13 Thread Rob Mensching
That or a embedded UI would need to be implemented in the WiX toolset. Personally, I jumped over that feature and went for the full blown bootstrapper/chainer with Burn... but GPO functionality does suffer a bit. Might be an interesting feature to implement in the future to provide a "stock embedde

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

2013-02-27 Thread TimM
Since we still have a lot of our customers that still use GPO for pushing out our software we still have to have a .msi solution. So again it looks like we have to stay with InstallShield for all our chained projects. Tim. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-tools

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

2013-02-27 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
le in some situations. -Original Message- From: Steven Ogilvie [mailto:steven.ogil...@titus.com] Sent: 27 February 2013 14:07 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package. Classification: Public I have

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

2013-02-27 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Classification: Public I have heard that GPO doesn't support EXE's? -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: February-27-13 8:59 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

2013-02-27 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Chaining MSI's in an MSI is not supported so I am not sure how InstallShield does that. WiX bundles are chains of MIS's packaged as an EXE, this can easily be pushed out be admins as it supports unattended installs with command line parameters than can be pushed in to the chained MSI's in much the

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

2013-02-27 Thread TimM
No we are not talking about nested installs. I am actually talking about a Chain installer that chains in a bunch of .msi project into a single msi package. InstallShield has this it correctly creates a single .msi package for administrators to push out. We started looking at WiX and therefore a

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

2013-02-26 Thread Rob Mensching
By "chained install package" do you mean the "nested installs" that were deprecated by the Windows Installer? On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Wesley Manning wrote: > No, it is just generates a exe. > > -Original Message- > From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] > Sent: February-26

Re: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package.

2013-02-26 Thread Wesley Manning
No, it is just generates a exe. -Original Message- From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] Sent: February-26-13 3:43 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Looking at WiX to generate a Chained install package. Still new to WiX as we have most of our installs in I