[wix-users] Stop & Start Service

[Christopher Painter]

Log the install and look at the time stamps.  The scheduling should be pretty quick but the deferred execution phase inside InstallFinalize should have some time between them.


FWIW, the stop/start actions are tied to the installation/removal of the component the row is associated with.  So if you are doing patching or something and the component doesn't get installed then the stop/start won't happen.


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From: Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Stop & Start Service

Thank you Chris. But, does this really work as expected? Because, I see it stops & starts quickly and doesn't seem to follow the sequence. Also, it's a requirement to stop it at beginning and start it back towards the end of the installation.

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com<mailto:chrpai at iswix.com>> wrote:

That's pretty much what MSI was designed to do.  The StopServices action is run towards the front (1900) and the StartServices action is ran much later near the end (5900).


That said, I typically don't start/stop  IIS unless I really have to.  Usually I'm dealing with ASP.NET<http://ASP.NET> applications and modern versions of IIS are pretty good about noticing changes to a web.config file and automatically restarting that portion of the web server.


https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa372038(v=vs.85).aspx

Suggested InstallExecuteSequence (Windows)<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa372038(v=vs.85).aspx>
msdn.microsoft.com<http://msdn.microsoft.com>
The suggested action sequences for a basic InstallExecuteSequence table in a Windows Installer database.






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Subject: [wix-users] Stop & Start Service

Using the ServiceControl element, we can start or stop (or both) a service
during MSI installation. But, I need to stop a service (for example IIS) at
the beginning of MSI installation and start it again during the end of MSI
installation. Can anyone please help me achieve this?


Regards,
Venkatesh

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