Thanks Chris. Appreciate your prompt response. Regards Meera
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com>wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
