Ok, so just in case somebody else struggles with this: It's resolved. The problem was not WIX after all. I had simply forgotten that my CA was accessing a msi property and deferred CA's can't do that. So when I changed my CA from immediate to deferred, it couldn't gather all its necessary information and failed. Since I got no details on the failure, I guessed it was again the privileges causing the trouble.
So let's sum up: 1) CA deferred, impersonate=no 2) <Package ... InstallPrivileges="elevated" /> Cheers Marcus -----Original Message----- From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com] Sent: Sonntag, 29. März 2009 21:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] http namespace reservation in WIX Main is native. -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Gelderie [mailto:t-mge...@microsoft.com] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 02:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] http namespace reservation in WIX Thanks for all your suggestions. Unfortunately none of these worked for me :( I tried running the custom action deferred, impersonate='no' -> no success Also tried running it as immediate: no success either. (InstallPrivileges="elevated" in both attempts) I am beginning to wonder whether the problem arises because the CA is managed. Those of you, who mentioned that you have working CAs in place, are yours managed or native? I really don't see any other reason, why these settings work for you, but don't work for me. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Freitag, 27. März 2009 18:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] http namespace reservation in WIX Marcus Gelderie wrote: > A colleague just told me he had similar problems when working with > certificates within a custom action. Same pattern: code needs admin > privileges, works fine when run in an elevated console app but won't work in > a custom action. > That means that the custom action isn't authored correctly: It must be both deferred and no-impersonate. Otherwise it runs with user privileges. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
