On 11/9/2013 11:13 PM, Christopher Painter wrote:
My question would be "why" you were asked to confirm your software
would work on core. Was it just a "what if" check or do you actually
have a customer user story? My installs will take a dependency on
something but they will also properly gate check that the dependency
exists.
A customer reported that the installer displayed an error when run on
some version of core. It turns out there are various DLLs that aren't
available by default (e.g. pdh.dll) so you've got to be a bit careful.
Since our software installs in datacenters it's not terribly surprising
they'd be using slightly unusual configurations.
Re: PE. It's funny you say that. Every once in awhile my boss will
ask me for something that seems impossible to me. And yet he expects
me to figure it out since I'm his architect. He wants to be able to
reflect the contents of an MSI and "install it" either from a Win PE
environment or while servicing an offline image. I can't even
imagine how that would be possible and yet he will claim it is. What
do you mean by get your software installed under Win PE. Do you just
slipstream it into the WIM?
Since one of the installations contains a driver, the task was to get it
to load under Win PE, from a command prompt. Then we had to get some
other binaries deployed too: we ended up taking everything out of the
.msi packages and installing them into their normal locations another
way. We managed it, and the other binaries ran from the prompt under
Win PE.
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Bruce Cran
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