Tell your customer that this is by design and if they have a problem with it they should call Microsoft. BTW, it looks like this was just covered on WiX-Dev.
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/how-to-stop-msiserver-net-stop-msiserver-td5516817.html Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: "Bisht, Pradeep" <pradeep_bi...@yahoo.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 5:06:07 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; when our installer starts I see that: under processes "msiexec.exe" starts running and under services "msiserver" start running. Once our installer completes, msiexec is no longer visible in task manager while msiserver keeps running untill after 10 minutes and then its status changes to "stopped". Customer's requirement is to stop msiserver immediately after our installation completes. All of our custom actions are synchronous return=check. ----- Original Message ---- From: "Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)" <edwin.cas...@fiserv.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 2:53:43 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; I don't think you should be trying to stop "msiserver.exe". 1.) I don't know what "msiserver.exe" is. I would expect to see msiexec.exe but you certainly don't want to stop these process as one of them will be yourself. 2.) The Windows Installer architecture uses a client process and a server process. You really want the OS to determine when the server process is ready to die if at all. The client process should not be killed as that will kill yourself as I mentioned above. Seems to me like the requirement interpretation should be "make sure you wait for any exe custom actions your spin up during your installation." WiX will let you wait for their completion already. Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -----Original Message----- > From: Bisht, Pradeep [mailto:pradeep_bi...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:42 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; > > Thanks for responding. > > The top installer is not ours it is of our customer who takes software from us > and several other vendors. Their top level installer expects our installer to > stop all the processes that started for our installation and that includes > msiserver.exe also. If I use service APIs what will be the id for the msiserver > service? Can you please point me to a sample code. Thanks. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Wilson, Phil" <phil.wil...@invensys.com> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 12:33:08 PM > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; > > It sounds like you have a design that expects the Windows Installer service > (or some number of processes called msiexec.exe?) to stop when a bunch of > your installs have finished. The Windows Installer service isn't a child >process! > Like any other Windows service you stop it with the service APIs, but really, > your design is just very very wrong. If those other installs are completely out > of your control (and you can't install them yourself so you *know* when > they > complete) you'd be better off polling for the ProductCode of last one you > launched to see when it is finally installed. > > > Phil Wilson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bisht, Pradeep [mailto:pradeep_bi...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:05 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; > > After my installer finishes, msiserver keeps running for long time. How can I > stop it? Our top level installer package (not MSI based) waits for all the >child > > processes launched by a specific installer to end/stop before it can proceed > with the installation of other packages. How can I stop msiserver? Any help > will > > be highly appreciated. 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