[wix-users] Excuting Powershell cmdlets in installers

[John Zajac]

Yes I want to capture Error at the very least. Even better would be any
powershell output as I will likely have this in a fancy custom UI in a Burn
bundle. If not that, then hopefully for ActionText

Btw the only reason I'm not using the PowerShellWixExtension is because I
would like this to work with System.Management.Automation v1.0.0.0  (for
windows server 2008R2 / exh 2010). So I figured I'd write my own slimmed
down, simpler to maintain CA rather then recompile PowerShellWixExtension
with a new version.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:26 AM, John Cooper <JoCooper at jackhenry.com>
wrote:

> If it's just these three cmdlets, you can write a C# custom action to run
> them directly.  Doing this is well documented.   Is there any output you
> want to capture?
>
> Running PowerShell directly is like running VBS--it will get your MSI and
> product marked as unsafe.
>
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> As part of a WiX installer project, I need to do things like:
>
>    - create send connectors (New-SendConnector)
>    - receive connector (New-ReceiveConnector)
>    - Install transport agents (Install-TransportAgent)
>
>
> and it appears Microsoft's only (officially documented) way to do this is
> through powershell - I can't seem to find a more direct .net API way of
> doing this <
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37217447/is-there-a-managed-api-i-can-use-create-exchange-2010-2013-send-connectors-o
> >
> .
> (if anyone does know of a way correct me, I haven't poked around the
> Exchange assemblies I was hoping for something documented/recommended by
> Microsoft)
>
> I've been on the interweb surveying how others have done this. Some of
> which don't feel right (having the scripts in your installer and shelling
> out to powershell.exe.., for example). I prefer taking an approach of
> spinning up a runspace like this PowerShellWixExtension <
> https://github.com/flcdrg/PowerShellWixExtension>.
>
> *My question is: *are there any plans for the WiX toolset to bring in more
> formal support for Powershell custom actions, such as an extension?
>
> Or, is running powershell cmdlets in an installer a bad route to take, in
> general (even if wrapped in DTF custom action)?
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-John