[wix-users] Starting DISM.exe via Custom BA

[John Cooper]

Use a child process that is elevated to run DISM.  But even better (for Server OS's that support it) is to use the PowerShell interface.

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John Merryweather Cooper
Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext:  431050 |JoCooper at jackhenry.com




-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Buchner
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 10:03 AM
To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-users] Starting DISM.exe via Custom BA

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Hi Everyone,

I´m trying to achieve to following in my Custom BA:

-       Check if all necessary IIS roles for our ASP.Net application are installed on the executing machine (just checking, not installing!)

-       We like to show the result to the user before the installation starts (so using a MSI in the bundle is not really an option)

-       Currently I´m using DISM.exe to get the necessary information, but dism requires admin privileges which is not possible in the bundle normally

I found out that I can manipulate the manifest-file via ResourceHacker to require admin privileges for the bundle. But I don´t like this option that much - seems to be pretty bad.

Any other ideas how to handle this task? Maybe another way than dism?
Thanks in advance!

Andreas


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