MsiZap is meant as a last ditch support tool. It isn't intended to be shipped in a product. I wouldn't be surprised if the licensing doesn't allow for the tool to be redisted.
-----Original Message----- From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 23:04 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product Thanks everyone for the help. I have managed to detect all users who ever installed our product using MsiEnumProductsEx and LookupAccountSidW. Now I am facing another challenging problem - how do we uninstall all per-user installations? If some accounts are no longer accessible, what can we do? Question: Can I use MsiZap to remove all per-user installations? I have tried "MsiZap TW! {productGuid} but according to the help W option requires that the profiles for all of the users be loaded. Anyone knows how to load all users' profile so that I can use "MsiZap TW! {productGuid}" to remove all per-user installations? Any hints will be much appreciated. Thanks, Hyung Buddell, James wrote: > > Tidying up per-user installs is almost impossible, especially when some > users might have left your business so their accounts are no longer > accessible. I try not to use it, but there's always MSIZap... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 October 2008 18:46 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product > > It won't uninstall. Just detects then allows you to put a message up and > advise the user to uninstall the old per-user app then re-run setup. > > I think you are correct that user needs to be admin to run this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:44 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product > > Only when admin right? And this won't uninstall right? I think you'd > need to load all the user's profiles to uninstall per-user applications. > Loading user profiles is tricky from what I've heard. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:41 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product > > I've used a custom action to do something similar in the past. A > stripped down version of the code is below. I can't guarantee 100% > effectiveness but it worked for my needs at the time. > > UINT __stdcall FunctionName (MSIHANDLE hMsi) { > UINT uiStatus = ERROR_SUCCESS; > > WriteToLog( hMsi, _T("Entering")); > > uiStatus = MsiEnumProductsEx( > _T("{PUT_GUID_HERE}"), // product code to search for > _T("s-1-1-0"), // search all users > MSIINSTALLCONTEXT_USERMANAGED | MSIINSTALLCONTEXT_USERUNMANAGED > | MSIINSTALLCONTEXT_MACHINE, // search all users > 0, > NULL, > NULL, > NULL, > NULL); > > > > if (uiStatus == ERROR_SUCCESS) // Product was found > { > MSIHANDLE hError = MsiCreateRecord(1); > MsiRecordSetInteger(hError, 1, 2001); // Use code 2001 from the > msi's Error table. Author 2001 in wix file. > MsiProcessMessage(hMsi, INSTALLMESSAGE_ERROR, hError); > } > else // we didn't find the Product > { > WriteToLog( hMsi, _T("Product not found")); > } > > WriteToLog( hMsi, _T("Leaving")); > return uiStatus; > } > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:36 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product > > Sounds very difficult to do correctly. Lots of complicated stuff in > there from what I've heard. > > -----Original Message----- > From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 09:18 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product > > > Thanks for the answer. > > Any hints on how I can find who installed? I need to provide an > uninstall utility which removes prior versions. > > Thanks, > Hyung > > > Rob Mensching-2 wrote: >> >> I believe you'd have to log in as each user and execute the installer >> as that user. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 23:47 >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have changed the product install type from per-user to per-machine >> and want to uninstall prior per-user installs. According to the >> archived emails it seems I need to write an uninstall utilitiy to >> remove all products installed by users. My question is "How can I find > >> all users who installed the prior version?" >> >> We have used a same product id so I can detect whether the prior >> version is installed or not by checking: >> HLKM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{productid} >> However as only a user who installed the prior version can uninstall >> it, I need to find a list of users who installed the prior version. 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