[wix-users] light.exe on Windows 10 from Service: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed

[Alexander Uslontsev]

Thank you Bob. The problem was in the build server (MSI Factory). It has
logic to "continue after validation errors", which no longer works under
Windows 10. Specifying "-sval" fixed that.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> Is it failing during validation? That's always been problematic from a
> service. Trying running with the -sval switch to suppress validation.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Alexander Uslontsev
> Sent: Monday, 31 August, 2015 12:18
> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-users] light.exe on Windows 10 from Service: The Windows
> Installer Service could not be accessed
>
> I was wondering if anyone has experience with Windows 10 yet.
>
> I just upgraded our build box from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (x64) and
> light.exe started raising "The Windows Installer Service could not be
> accessed". It still works with the same parameters if I run it
> interactively, but not when launched from the build service.
>
> I tried:
>
> - Running build service under different accounts (local admin, domain,
> local system)
> - Registering/unregistering msiexec
> - Changing Windows Installer service imagePath to SystemWow64 (from
> system32)
> - Adding Wow64=1 registry flag for Windows Installer
>
> Result is always the same: light.exe works interactively but fails under
> windows service.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions on what else I may try?
>
>
> Thank you
> Alex
>
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