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

Thu Jul 14 17:18:53 PDT 2016

Yes, that's what I'm suggesting and why I said it would be a pain.  You
can't do it at runtime, because security.

On Jul 14, 2016 7:13 PM, "Huy Doan" <hdoan at vmware.com> wrote:

> Are you suggesting that just find the BundleId of the old bundle then hard
> code it in the new bundle for upgrade? That makes sense but not quite
> convenient.
>
> Is there any possible way to dynamically assign this value at runtime?
>
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> *From:* Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.hall at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2016 5:09 PM
> *To:* Huy Doan <hdoan at vmware.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated
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> You can't choose the guid when you build a bundle, that's true.  But what
> you need is the BundleId of the bundle you're upgrading, although it's not
> very easy to tell what that is.
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Huy Doan <hdoan at vmware.com> wrote:
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> But this discussion says that the bundle GUID cannot be hard coded.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26742831/bootstrapper-guid
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> *From:* Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.hall at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:58 PM
> *To:* Huy Doan <hdoan at vmware.com>
> *Cc:* WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated
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> You have to specify the guid at compile time, you can't use Variables.
> This is to keep the window as small as possible, after all this is
> unelevated code launching an elevated process without a UAC prompt.
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Huy Doan <hdoan at vmware.com> wrote:
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> One more question on this. How can I pass the PREV-BUNDLE-ID? It tried to
> make it a Burn variable and set in during the DetectRelatedBundle event but
> it does not work. Below is the portion of the log.
>
> [13A0:0DCC][2016-07-14T16:16:14]i600: LaunchApprovedExe begin, id:
> PreviousVersion
> [0404:01C0][2016-07-14T16:16:14]i601: Searching registry for approved exe
> path, key:
> SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{[RelatedBundleId]},
> value: 'BundleCachePath', win64: no
> [0404:01C0][2016-07-14T16:16:14]e000: Error 0x80070002: Failed to open the
> registry key for the approved exe path.
> [13A0:0DCC][2016-07-14T16:16:14]i699: LaunchApprovedExe complete, result:
> 0x80070002, processId: 0
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Huy Doan
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 3:37 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated
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> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Sean Hall
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 3:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated
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> 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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> > Behalf Of Huy Doan
> > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 1:57 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated
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> > I understand and Rob Mensching has had similar answers to many of
> > these questions.
> >
> > 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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