Can you install an MSI from the same user account/environment? Are you an interactive user or are you running from a service or a scheduled task? Validation uses the same Windows Installer service that installation transactions use. Also I found a bug report that says that an environment block that is too large can cause a failure to connect/start the MSI service, so you may try removing things from your environment variables to bring the overall size down. Blair Murri > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:30:52 -0400 > From: kmmonr...@gmail.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Validation through Visual Studio > > I'm using VS 2010 SP1 on a Windows 7 machine. When I build in VS, I get a > message that I can't validate due to system policy. I tired to validate > through Orca, and got an error that the validation engine couldn't start. > > Does anyone know what system policy has to be changed to let me run > validation? I am a local admin on my machine, and VS shows that it is > running as an administrator. > > Thanks! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows:
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