[wix-users] WiX 3.10 - domain

[Sean Hall]

WiX 3.10.2 has security fixes related to DLL hijacking -
https://www.firegiant.com/blog/2016/1/20/wix-v3.10.2-released/.  The
hardened Burn engine has exposed a GDI+ issue already -
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/2281687/setdefaultdlldirectories-results-in-exception-during-opening-a-winform-on-win7.
If the only difference between your two bundles is that one was built with
3.9 and the other with 3.10.2, then I would recommend filing another
Connect issue for this.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:51 AM, Ondrej Krc-Jediny <ondro.krc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have an installer with managed bootstrapper application (MBA).
> Inside the MBA, there is this line of code:
>
> System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain.GetComputerDomain()
>
> It works fine and returns the domain as expected on all systems when
> my installer is built with WiX 3.9.
>
> It behaves the same on all system with WiX 3.10.2, except Windows
> Server 2008 (but Windows Server 2008 R2 works fine).
> It throws this exception:
> Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {...} failed
> due to the following error: 80070057 The parameter is incorrect.
> (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))
>
> Do you know what change between WiX 3.9 and 3.10 may have caused this
> and what can I do to fix it?
>
> Thank you.
>
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