You can view the result of a patched MSI in Orca by first opening the MSI then using one of the menu items called "View Patch", if I remember rightly. You could also extract the embedded transforms from the msp and look at those but that's a little more work.
-----Original Message----- From: McCain, Jon [mailto:jon.mcc...@inin.com] Sent: 13 December 2011 13:58 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: McCain, Jon Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Util:FileShareor FileSharePermissionsisremoving additional userson minor/small updates. I missed your response Chad... But opening an MSP in orca only shows the MSIPatchMetaData and MSIPatchSequence tables... Are you referring to opening up the new MSI that is ultimately used to create the patch? Thanks for the suggestion Dave. I'll put something together to test that out. Jon W. McCain -----Original Message----- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 8:27 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Util:FileShare or FileSharePermissionsisremoving additional users on minor/small updates. If you can replicate this behaviour in a minimal installer, I suspect this may be a bug in the util:FileSharePermission code. I would advise grabbing the wix source and checking out what the extension does. It may well trash the acl and rebuild it on a repair (or even the whole share) which would describe the behaviour you are seeing. But that's my speculation. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: 12 December 2011 16:33 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Util:FileShare or FileSharePermissionsisremoving additional users on minor/small updates. If you open up your MSP in Orca does it have a FileShare and/or FileSharePermissions tables? It sounds like it does based off of the behavior you describe, but I'd hope it doesn't because I'd think (ideally) your minor update should leave the shares and permissions alone that were created by the major installer as well as added since the install. If those tables were there I think I'd try making a copy of the MSP, then use Orca to drop those two tables and save and test it to see if the same thing happened. Using the modified MSP, of course. -----Original Message----- From: McCain, Jon [mailto:jon.mcc...@inin.com] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 5:32 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: McCain, Jon Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Util:FileShare or FileSharePermissions isremoving additional users on minor/small updates. Anyone have any other thoughts on this? Jon W. McCain | Software Engineer - Install phone & fax +1.317.715.8462 | jon.mcc...@inin.com Interactive Intelligence Inc. Deliberately Innovative www.inin.com -----Original Message----- From: McCain, Jon Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 8:31 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: McCain, Jon Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Util:FileShare or FileSharePermissions is removing additional users on minor/small updates. I am referring to a minor upgrade not a major in this instance. The product code remains the same and an MSP is used for the install. Jon W. McCain | Software Engineer - Install phone & fax +1.317.715.8462 | jon.mcc...@inin.com Interactive Intelligence Inc. Deliberately Innovative www.inin.com -----Original Message----- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:47 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Util:FileShare or FileSharePermissions is removing additional users on minor/small updates. If by "the update" you're meaning a major update then you can avoid the component being reinstalled by scheduling RemoveExistingProducts late - one of the latter 2 options here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa371197%28v=vs. 85%29 .aspx Components that exist in both the old and new installers are not reinstalled. -----Original Message----- From: McCain, Jon [mailto:jon.mcc...@inin.com] Sent: 08 December 2011 18:18 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: McCain, Jon Subject: [WiX-users] Util:FileShare or FileSharePermissions is removing additional users on minor/small updates. I am experiencing an issue where a network share created with util:FileShare is overwriting post install added members to the Share Permissions DACL. The components look like this for the GA install: <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="CLIENT_RESOURCES"> <Component Id="resourcedir_fileshare" Guid="D2DAED14-E4E3-4405-8C0A-D26E9144793B" SharedDllRefCount="yes"> <CreateFolder /> <util:FileShare Name="Resources" Id="ResourceDirectoryShare" Description="IC Resources Folder"> <util:FileSharePermission GenericAll="yes" User="Administrators" CreateChild="yes" CreateFile="yes" DeleteChild="yes" /> <util:FileSharePermission GenericRead="yes" User="Everyone" GenericExecute="yes" ReadPermission="yes" ReadExtendedAttributes="yes" /> </util:FileShare> </Component> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> These do not change during minor updates but when the update is applied any additional permissions that have been added are lost. I attempted to add Conditions to the components but to only run when "Not Installed" is true but that didn't resolve the issue. 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