Ran into this problem myself, and ended up writing a whole chunk of code in
a custom action to walk the list of dependencies amongst the services and
restart them in the correct order. Unfortunately, there are some very weird
dependencies amongst services out there and you can never know them all
statically, so having code in a custom action for this seems to be the only
way to ensure it really works across all platforms.
It does depend on what services you are restarting, but if you ever need to
restart any of the Microsoft ones (lanmanserver or something similar for
example), then things can get very hairy.
AS
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To: Kelly Leahy
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependent Windows Services
I think that is a good idea - to invoke netstart/stop and not worry about
the return code. I'll give it a shot and let everyone know how it works
out...
Thanks.
On Nov 29, 2007 4:07 PM, Kelly Leahy < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I dont' think windows even has such a feature, so I'd be surprised if MSI
does.
I think that's the whole reason why iisreset is a program and they don't
just rely on people having to do net start / net stop commands.
By the way, if you know the dependencies, you could just do net start and
not check the return value, couldn't you? Or does MSI also complain when
net start throws an error?
Kelly
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[WiX-users] Dependent Windows Services
I never figured out a built-in way (in WIX) to start/stop dependent Windows
services automagically. For example, the server has IIS installed along with
SMTP & POP3. When I stop IIS (via ServiceControl), the dependent services
also get stopped, but when I restart IIS (via ServiceControl), the dependent
services don't get started. I can include extra ServiceControl elements for
all the IIS dependent services, but the MSI will throw and exception if one
these dependent services hasn't been installed.
In short, is there a way to achieve the above functionality magically
(meaning, when I start/stop a specific service, all the dependent services
would start/stop based on which service is installed)?
Thanks.
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