[wix-users] Download URL for using RemotePayload to install SQL Express

[Phill Hogland]

Thanks Sean and Dave;

For the VC_redist download pages, I noticed that I can right-click on the Download button and copy the link, however for the SQL Express download pages (any version) that did not seem to work.   The 'Download' button causes a 'pop up' page to be displayed, and inspecting the source for the page also did not reveal a link.  But what I did was run Fiddler while doing the download.  By inspecting the Fiddler log I found:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/E/A/E/EAE6F7FC-767A-4038-A954-49B8B05D04EB/Express%2064BIT/SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe

(and similar download.microsoft.com/download URLS for the other SQL Express packages).

I had heard about "fwlinks" and did not know if the above links were safe to use, or if I should have located an "fwlink".  Experimentally, the above link is working with ExePackage and RemotePayload in the tests that I have done so far. 

Thanks for the help!
Phill

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hall
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 6:36 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Download URL for using RemotePayload to install SQL Express

Download them through the website, then you can normally right click on it
in the browser's download window to get the URL that it got it from.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
wrote:

> I created a bundle which installs SQL Express 2012 SP2 for x64 or x86 (and
> several locales) each requiring a separate Microsoft setup.  While that is
> working, I am trying to convert to use RemotePayload, so that I do not have
> to stage the Microsoft bundles with each build on my web deployment
> server.  This is my first serious attempt to use RemotePayload.  I
> harvested the RemotePayload attributes using heat.exe, but how do I come up
> with a correct download url for Microsoft's server?
>
> I assume it should be a go.microsoft.com/fwlink  URL, but I have never
> understood how to find these.  And as I post this question I am told that I
> should use SQL Express 2014 (rather than 2012 SP2).  I assume that the
> general 'how to find fwlinks?' will apply to either.   Thanks for the
> assistance! Phill
>
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