Launch a standalone process that elevates and communicates back to your BA. We've talked about adding this feature to Burn so there is only a single elevation prompt in the end but no one has contributed it yet.
Funny thing is the only reason we've needed it thus far is because the IIS team screwed up their permissions on their files and prevented read from unelevated processes. The correct fix is for the IIS team to fix that... not that that will ever happen. On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Kryschan < christian.hennig....@wincor-nixdorf.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > we do also have the need of an elevated BA. Our BA collects all the > information required for the installation in a kind of setup wizard. > > > robmen wrote > > Your BootstrapperApplication should not be modifying machine state at > all. > > The elevation is needed, because we want to check for the existence of a > certain website in IIS via Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace, to > either > display an information that the website already exists or to request some > data (like apppool user and ports) from the user. > > Without elevation an UnauthorizedAccessException is thrown. Is there a way > to achieve this? > > Best regards > Christian > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Bootstrapper-manifest-tp7582666p7589444.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
