Many of our customers are school districts whom I suspect are somewhat behind the times. All I know is that they have specifically requested a single MSI.
In my situation I need to invoke two third party executables which I assume are bootstrappers. They definitely launch MSIs internally, which is causing my current problem. I don't mind if they aren't transactional. But I need the main MSI to wait for the called MSI to complete and not throw an error because an installation is currently happening. I *think* what I am hearing is that this IS possible using Wix (perhaps using MsiSetExternalUIRecord?). But I'm having trouble confirming that. Can anyone provide a simple example of this? My end goal is actually to create an installer with no UI. Silent install only. Thanks! Kevin On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Christopher Painter < chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > > Who actually uses GPO deployment? It's capabilities are soooo limited > compare to tools like SCCM(SMS) which has no problems handling multiple > files including exe's. > > --- > 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 > > --- On Sat, 5/14/11, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote: > > > From: Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Chaining MSIs together > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 7:23 PM > > > On 13-May-11 13:32, Wilson, Phil wrote: > > Well being picky you don't need MSI 4.5 if all you want to do is install > a collection of MSI files wrapped in your custom UI using > MsiSetExternalUIRecord - that's always been an option. MSI 4.5 gives you > transaction support (so you don't need to uninstall some yourself if one > fails), and the ability to say that you have an embedded UI, but folks have > been chaining MSIs and generally making a collection look like a single > "product" for a long time, and MSI 4.5 just gave more hooks to make it > better. > > It also provides the ability for a chainer to be delivered as an .msi > (via MsiEmbeddedChainer) instead of just as an .exe. That makes it > easier for GPO deployment. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
