There are some posts online about powershell used with CAQuietExec. People reports two potential issues: (1) the installer hangs. (2) there is a command windows popping up.
I encountered issue (1). By using my own custom action CallExe which basically is a shell, I do not see either (1) or (2). Cheers Lian -----Original Message----- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:33 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] cannot make powershell custom action work on 64-bit windows 2008 R2 There is a typo in my email. In my actually testing code, there is no extra space around TestDeferred. Sorry for confusion. Let me post the code segment again: <CustomAction Id="Test" Property="TestDeferred" Value='"c:\windows\syswow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoLogo -NoProfile -NonInteractive get-help"' Execute='immediate' Return='check'/> <CustomAction Id="TestDeferred" BinaryKey='WixCA' DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="no" /> Thanks for pointing out any error in this code. Lian -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:17 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] cannot make powershell custom action work on 64-bit windows 2008 R2 I'm hoping that the extra spaces in the TestDeferred custom action declaration's Id attribute are an artifact of either your or my email client and not what you have in code. -----Original Message----- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:23 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] cannot make powershell custom action work on 64-bit windows 2008 R2 Hi, I have a custom action where CAQuietExec calls a powershell command. <CustomAction Id="Test" Property="TestDeferred" Value='"c:\windows\syswow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoLogo -NoProfile -NonInteractive get-help"' Execute='immediate' Return='check'/> <CustomAction Id=" TestDeferred " BinaryKey='WixCA' DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="no" /> For testing purpose, I just hardcoded the powershell.exe path. I also tried C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe but it gives the same error: MSI (s) (30:6C) [12:12:08:458]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSIB570.tmp, Entrypoint: CAQuietExec CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: Command failed to execute. CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: CAQuietExec Failed CustomAction InstallWindowsFeaturesDeferred returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox) My system is windows 2008 R2 64bit, Wix is 3.5.0529.0 and windows installer is 4.5. According to Rob (http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg16838.html), this problem should have been fixed. Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks Lian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
