You could be right. The DLL could be doing something daft. I thought I
tallowed out all the registration. I'll check again.
Rob Hamflett wrote:
> If you're doing things via normal MSI methods (which you are, assuming the
> values are correct) and
> specifying [EMAIL PROTECTED]"elevated" (are you?), then I'm out of ideas,
> sorry.
>
> Aha, hold on. When you run from the elevated command prompt, the entire
> installation runs elevated.
> This means that the Internet Explorer instance you launch at the end of the
> installation is also
> running elevated. Is this possibly the real problem? The installation is
> fine but you need to run
> IE elevated for it to work?
>
> Rob
>
> Ryan O'Neill wrote:
>
>> The registration of the DLL is handled via RegistryValue elements
>> wrapped inside Component elements which are then inside three levels of
>> Directory elements (snippet below). So no custom actions involved for
>> the registry, I kind of got the impression they were not good. I do have
>> one however, to launch IE after the install (also shown below). I
>> upgraded to WiX v3 to see if I could get better error checking, then
>> cleared any warnings and still the same.
>>
>> This may be relevant, I used InstallAware to create the initial bulk of
>> the installer but have edited by hand since then.
>>
>> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
>> <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder" Name="PFiles">
>> <Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="OSOYOU Internet
>> Explorer toolbar">
>> <Component Id="C_MainDll"
>> Guid="{DB020289-44CE-4A4C-9821-C96718B0FF3E}">
>> <File Id="FL_IEToolbar.dll" ShortName="IETool"
>> Name="IEToolbar.dll"
>> Source="..\IEToolbar\ReleaseUMinDependency\IEToolbar.dll" DiskId="1"
>> KeyPath="yes" />
>> <RegistryKey Root="HKLM"
>> Key="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar">
>> <RegistryValue Type="string" Value="" />
>> <RegistryValue
>> Name="{FD7DC3F5-F8EA-4F91-9665-4B8661392667}" Type="string"
>> Value="OSOYOU toolbar" />
>> </RegistryKey>
>> <RegistryValue Root="HKCR"
>> Key="CLSID\{FD7DC3F5-F8EA-4F91-9665-4B8661392667}" Value="OSOYOU
>> toolbar" Type="string" />
>>
>> <CustomAction Id="CA_HelpInstall" Return="asyncNoWait"
>> Property="IEXPLORE" ExeCommand="http://www.myurl.com/toolbarhelp";
>> Execute="immediate" />
>>
>>
>> Thanks for keeping with me on this Rob, very much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> Rob Hamflett wrote:
>>
>>> That article is missing a few important bits, as far as my understanding
>>> goes. An installer written
>>> for Vista should be marked as needing elevation, or not needing elevation.
>>> If it does, you get
>>> prompted when the installer switches over to the server side, which does
>>> the actual work. Microsoft
>>> knew they would have to cope with a ton of installers that were written
>>> pre-Vista, so there's code
>>> in there to elevate anything that looks like an installer. Basically
>>> anything called setup.exe, or
>>> with 'installer' or 'setup' in the description. That kind of thing, and I
>>> think MSI files get
>>> included in there.
>>>
>>> Going back to your problem, I get the impression that when you say you run
>>> it from a command prompt,
>>> you actually mean you run it from an 'elevated' command prompt. If this is
>>> the case, then it sounds
>>> like the DLL is being registered outside the elevated part of the install.
>>> Are you using a Custom
>>> Action to do this, and if so, is it scheduled somewhere between
>>> InstallInitialize and
>>> InstallFinalize in the InstallExecuteSequence?
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> Ryan O'Neill wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Been looking into this some more. I've asked the customer to log before
>>>> and after (nothing yet) but in the meantime they found this article on
>>>> how to elevate privileges for an MSI (
>>>> http://footheory.com/blogs/shane/archive/2007/08/03/vista-and-elevating-security-of-an-msi-to-run-as-administrator.aspx
>>>>
>>>> ).
>>>>
>>>> Thats not the ONLY way to do this is it? Is the article author mistaken?
>>>> I see UAC prompts come up when I run my MSI so I thought it would be OK.
>>>> I'd hate to have to do a bodge because Vista has a security by obscurity
>>>> flaw.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Ryan
>>>>
>>>> Rob Hamflett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The only thing that I can think to cause this would be if the command
>>>>> prompt was elevated. Have you
>>>>> tried logging the installation to see what the differences are? This
>>>>> article explains how to turn
>>>>> on global logging so you can get the logs for the double-click
>>>>> installation.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223300
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>>>
>>>>> Ryan O'Neill wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ah, sorry, didn't see you there amongst all the spam!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I mean that from a command prompt it installs the Browser Helper Object
>>>>>> DLL just fine, but when run via double clicking it does not. It appears
>>>>>> to work the same but the DLL is not registered properly and does not get
>>>>>> installed into IE. But, this is only on certain systems. I worry that
>>>>>> they are doing something silly which they are not telling me about.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would the MSI run OK from UNC network share? I think they are doing
>>>>>> this, which is the only major difference in the way I would run anything.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ryan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rob Hamflett wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You say it runs fine from a command prompt. How does it normally run?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ryan O'Neill wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Anyone got a clue about this? I can't resolve it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ryan O'Neill wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have an installer that works great for all Win platforms, except
>>>>>>>>> Vista
>>>>>>>>> where it will fail to register a DLL on specific machines. It runs on
>>>>>>>>> most Vista installations fine (under admin and limited user accounts
>>>>>>>>> which prompt for admin access). I did manage to get to a machine that
>>>>>>>>> exhibited the issue yesterday and after running the MSI from the
>>>>>>>>> command
>>>>>>>>> prompt, it installed correctly. I understand what happened there with
>>>>>>>>> the automatically elevated privileges using the command prompt but I
>>>>>>>>> can't understand why the normal UAC prompts did not allow the
>>>>>>>>> installer
>>>>>>>>> to write the DLL registration to the registry.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think perhaps the systems it fails on have a policy that is
>>>>>>>>> disallowing my installer registry writes, but I'm out of ideas.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In testing it has proved to install correctly with;
>>>>>>>>> a) Admin accounts.
>>>>>>>>> b) Non admin accounts.
>>>>>>>>> c) Non default user admin account.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The method I am using to write to the registy is via the usual
>>>>>>>>> Registry
>>>>>>>>> tag, as below;
>>>>>>>>> <Component Id="C_MainDll" Guid="{XXXXXXXXX}">
>>>>>>>>> <Registry Root="HKLM"
>>>>>>>>> Key="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar">
>>>>>>>>> <Registry Name="{YYYYYYYYYY}"
>>>>>>>>> Type="string"
>>>>>>>>> Value="My toolbar" />
>>>>>>>>> </Registry>
>>>>>>>>> <Registry Root="HKCR" Key="CLSID\{YYYYYY}"
>>>>>>>>> Value="My toolbar" Type="string" />
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Obviously there are many more registry tags as well.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm really stuck here, it works on most Vista systems and then the
>>>>>>>>> remainder it will work after being installed from the command prompt.
>>>>>>>>> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Ryan
>>>>>>>>>
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