It continues the installation. It will set the RESUME property, and properly authored UI installs will show a "Resume" dialog saying that the install is resuming. --------------- Phil Wilson
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Martin Cornelius <martin-cornel...@t-online.de> wrote: > Apologize as this is a bit off-topic - actually it is a general MSI > question. However, I couldn't find any other forum on the net to ask this > question. Also, this has been asked a few years ago in this forum, but there > was only one quite fuzzy answer. BTW, I'm only interested in MSI 5+. > > > > I'm wondering what happens if power fails during the 'deferred' Phase of an > MSI Installation. More specific, some of the scheduled changes to the system > have already been made, some not. One could imagine several behaviors in > this case: > > > > - After restart, the system looks like nothing has changed at all > (perhaps implemented by using the transactional features of NTFS ?) > > - After restart, MSI notices it has been interrupted, and > automatically restores to a 'System Restore Point' it has produced during > the installation. > > - After restart, MSI notices it has been interrupted, and > automatically performs a rollback > > - After restart, MSI notices it has been interrupted, and > automatically continues the installation > > - After restart, MSI notices the user (in some way), that > something went wrong. > > - After restart, nothing happens at all. The 'half done' > installation is silently left in place. > > - Anything else.. > > > > Actually, I'm asking two Questions : > > > > Which of this behaviors does MSI exhibit by default ? > > Is it even possible to alter the default behavior via a WiX setup, and in > which ways ? > > > > Thanks in advance and Regards, Martin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT > Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard > Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises > http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ > source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
