[wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated

Huy Doan hdoan at vmware.com
Thu Jul 14 15:36:52 PDT 2016


I think that's something I'm looking for :D. I had an insight from Rob's hint but was not quite sure how to implement it. Your solution was something I pictured in mind. Thank you so much, Sean.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hall
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated

The old bootstrapper is a bundle that's already installed, right?  So it should be in the package cache, which is a secure location for ApprovedExeForElevation.  I'm not saying that it's not a pain to do it this way, but it is possible to manually launch the old bootstrapper elevated without showing multiple UAC prompts.

<ApprovedExeForElevation Id="PreviousVersion"
Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{PREV-BUNDLE-ID}"
Value="BundleCachePath" />

Engine.LaunchApprovedExe(hWnd, L"PreviousVersion", L"/repair", 0)

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> Yeah, you're not going to get that to work as is. But it might be a 
> nice thing to improve *in* Burn. Burn already repairs related bundles 
> in other scenarios. Might be interesting to enhance for upgrade rollback.
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> I understand and Rob Mensching has had similar answers to many of 
> these questions.
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> The problem I am encountering is when I do an upgrade, I hit cancel 
> and everything rolls back. Then I launch the old bootstrapper silently 
> to repair to make sure that the system is stable after a fail upgrade. 
> The old bootstrapper at launching asks to be elevated one more time 
> and I don't want the UAC prompt to appear in this scenario. Therefore 
> I have tried to elevate the BA or the bootstrapper so when the BA 
> launch the old bootstrapper, the prompt will not appear.
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