The remember property pattern won't help you here since the password value is encrypted. The best thing I can think of at the moment is to put conditions on the DeleteServices and InstallServices standard action so that they don't fire during major upgrade. This is a hack though because if you ever have a new service you won't be able to install it during an upgrade.
This should allow the MSI to stop the service, replace the file and restart the service without actually reconfiguring the service. The only other thing I could think of is make them enter the service user name and password again. Either that or eliminate the service account by using one of the built in accounts and setup delegation if needed. Wish I had a better answer. Maybe someone else does. ---------------------------------------- From: "Meera Jindal" <meera.jin...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:34 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WIX Service Upgrade Hi I'm working on an installer that is supposed to install a Windows service under a user account. The user account and the password for this user account is prompted in a dialog box and is passed to the ServiceInstall element in WIX. We use major upgrades to make it easy to install over a previous installation and we schedule RemoveExistingProducts phase after InstallFinalize. The problem is that we need to upgrade the service but we want to do it so that we can retrieve the account username and password without prompting the user for a username and password. The product which we intend to upgrade has already shipped so we cannot encrypt and store the user account and password during the baseline installation and use it during upgrade. In short, we want to upgrade without overwriting the service configuration (account username and password, for instance). Is there a mechanism in WIX via which this can be done? Thanks in advance. Regards Meera ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
