[WiX-users] What's the best way to deal with configuration data?

2014-10-01 Thread Colin Sim
I have some questions about how best to deal with install or setup configuration data. I apologies in advance if this is a repeat of something that's already been covered in a previous post, but I haven't really found anything that speaks to this subject. At my place of work we have three

Re: [WiX-users] What's the best way to deal with configuration data?

2014-10-02 Thread Colin Sim
a silent configuration file from a UI run as a model for all subsequent configurations or repairs of configuration. --- Phil Wilson On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Colin Sim colin@ipfx.com wrote: I have some questions about how best to deal with install or setup configuration data

Re: [WiX-users] What's the best way to deal with configuration data?

2014-10-02 Thread Colin Sim
.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Colin Sim [mailto:colin@ipfx.com] Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 3:44 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What's the best way to deal with configuration data? Hi guys

[WiX-users] Burn Prerequisite Install and Configuration

2015-04-29 Thread Colin Sim
Our product has a requirement on SQL Server that must be tuned to our application's requirements. I would like to create a bootstrapper to do the following: 1. Bundle the most recent version of SQL Server Express into our bootstrapper and install it, if SQL Server is not present. 2.

[WiX-users] .NET Prerequisite, Burn, and the ARP

2015-05-19 Thread Colin Sim
When a .NET package is successfully installed as a prerequisite for our Burn bootstrapper application, and the user cancels the install, the bootstrapper package is still listed in the Add/Remove programs. I understand that the .NET package is part of the bundle but from a user's perspective

Re: [WiX-users] .NET Prerequisite, Burn, and the ARP

2015-05-20 Thread Colin Sim
Phil: there's absolutely no need to apologise. All forum users (I know I am) appreciate your input and time spent helping out on the forum. I'll need to look into this issue anyway as part of a project of mine (which I'll get back to soon I hope). I'll report back anything meaningful that I

Re: [wix-users] (deprecated) Windows Installer Repair Failure

2015-07-28 Thread Colin Sim
We're doing a major upgrade and RemoveExistingProducts may not be schedule in the most efficient place, i.e. between InstallValidate and InstallInitialize. I'll attach the upgrade log in a following email as it's 42MB in size and I'm not sure if it'll be allowed. -Original Message-

[wix-users] (deprecated) Windows Installer Repair Failure

2015-07-26 Thread Colin Sim
We use a PowerShell script to upgrade our development servers and our product is contained in a 1.7GB MSI file. The PowerShell script copies the package from a network share to the local %TEMP% directory, then executes the MSI in silent mode. Upon successful installation the copy of the MSI in