Bump, just in case anyone has ever worked on a product that requires an explorer restart on install. How can an explorer restart happen via SCCM reliably?
I'll ask another question along the same lines - does anyone know if we decide to package our MSI as an EXE - which presumably could elevate itself better - would we have any increased control over explorer restarting correctly? Has anyone done something like this? On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:22 PM, AJ Ferrigno <aj.ferri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Been developing wix installers for over a year now, and thanks to my > Googling skill and the archive of this mailing list, I've been able to > solve most of my problems. So thanks for that! > > But I have a need now to use the Restart Manager to kill explorer during > install of a product. I have gotten it to the point where it mostly works > fine. Using the GUI as normal user and Admin user successfully restarts > explorer. Running a silent install (/qn) without elevation as Admin also > restarts explorer correctly. But running a silent install as a normal user > (without install privileges) via an elevated command prompt does not > successfully restart explorer. It does stop it, but explorer never starts > back up. > > Installer logs report no issue - in fact, the installer logs report that > all services were successfully restarted. > > Only in the event logs is the below message reported: > > Application 'C:\Windows\explorer.exe' (pid 2964) cannot be restarted - > Application SID does not match Conductor SID.. > > Now I think I understand the root issue here, and it is explained away in this > link > <http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/c4bf8857-144f-46f8-93b7-a9cb5109c6fd/restart-manager-fails-to-restart-an-application-for-standard-users-in-windows-7?forum=winformssetup>. > A user's session cannot be started by another user, for obvious security > reasons. However, there doesn't seem to be much of a solution there, other > than maybe to not use Restart Manager at all. > > This seems pretty basic to me. A working SCCM install of this product is > just as important (if not more so) than a normal GUI install. But if this > is a known issue, no SCCM install requiring Restart Manager would ever work > (I'm assuming explorer is not the culprit here). This leads me to believe I > am missing something. Has anyone else come across this issue, and if so, > how did you solve it? > > Thanks for any help, > AJ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
