Thank you very much for the detail information. Thanks, Hyung
Buddell, James wrote: > > MsiZap is sort of a last resort tool. What you should do is uninstall > for any accounts that you have access to, and then if the machines still > have product registrations under other inaccessible profiles that are > stopping you from doing your new install, then you use MsiZap to wipe > the machine clean of those registrations. Basically, it'll wipe out the > HKCR\Installer and > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer data for the > specified package. The user profiles for those inaccessible accounts > aren't so relevant because, by definition, they're inaccessible and > won't be used again. You can even delete any cached profiles for users > who have left if you like. > > BTW, to see which user accounts are affected, > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData > contains the details of who has which packages installed. It's by > UserSID, with the system account being the short SID. You can look under > each user's key to see the Components, Products and Patches they have > installed. Under Products the ProductCode is packed - brackets and > hyphens removed and various characters switched around, have a search > online to find out more details. > > Another way to achieve all this may be to change the UpgradeCode of your > product. Not best practices, and not at all good if the product is > externally released, but if it's a package that's internal to your > organisation then that might do the trick. Though the component > reference counting wouldn't be right, so it wouldn't all uninstall if > you removed the package. > > Cheers, > James > > -----Original Message----- > From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 October 2008 06:04 > 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? 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