If you can find a Way to set LaunchTarget to True without requiring user input, you can achieve your Behavior
Quoting Ryan Waller <rwal...@microsoft.com>: > I've tried that but it requires the user to click a button after > install completes, and they can also cancel. Neither is desirable. > > Can this be invoked without the button click? > > Ideally I would just like to have my MSI executed without elevation, > just like when running msiexec.exe from the command line. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] > Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 2:45 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper runs msiexec elevated which > causes my MSI CustomAction to run elevated > > WixStdBA handles this without a CA via: > > <Variable Name="LaunchTarget" > Value="[ProgramFilesFolder]\Blah\Blah\Application.exe"/> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Waller [mailto:rwal...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 4:32 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper runs msiexec elevated which causes > my MSI CustomAction to run elevated > > I've authored an MSI package that uses a CustomAction to launch an > application after install completes. The package requires elevation > but the CustomAction is scheduled after InstallFinalize to launch > the application as the Standard User, not elevated. > > > > When installing the MSI alone using msiexec.exe, things work as > expected, and my application launches correctly as the Standard User. > > > > However, we're using the WIX Standard BA bootstrapper to chain this > package in a install bundle. The problem is, when this MSI package > runs as part of the BA, it runs elevated, and so too does the > CustomAction, which in turn launches the app elevated, which is not > what we want. It seems that the BA launches msiexec.exe elevated. > > > > Is there a way to keep the BA from launching the MSI elevated? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Ryan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
