[wix-users] Stop & Start Service

[Ven H]

Let's say, it is not IIS and some other service like SQL or some other
built in service. I want the service to be stopped at the beginning of the
MSI installation and started towards the end of the installation. So, does
it imply that the Stop and Start actions will automatically take care of
this or some custom handling will be required? Please explain.

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Christopher Painter via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Agreed.  Probably why a lot of people are going to containers and cloud
> services.... not all developers can be trusted to do the right thing.
>
>
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> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of
> Edwin Castro via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:28 AM
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> Cc: Edwin Castro
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Stop & Start Service
>
> Perhaps this webapp is the only one deployed today to this IIS service...
> but IIS can host multiple sites and multiple webapps. Stopping and starting
> IIS affects all sites and webapps which could be really, really bad if
> those other sites and webapps suddenly go down without notice. For this
> reason, IIS supports the concept of AppPools which allows you to separate
> unrelated sites and webapps from each other in different processes. You
> should be creating a unique AppPool that you own so that you can stop and
> start that AppPool rather than the default AppPool or the entire IIS
> service. Perhaps a set of related sites and/or webapps could reuse the same
> AppPool you should do so carefully. Restarting all of IIS is a *bad*
> requirement.
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2017 08:54, "Ven H via wix-users" <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.
> org>
> wrote:
>
> > 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>
> > 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 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/
> Develop Windows desktop apps – Windows app development<https://msdn.
> microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/>
> msdn.microsoft.com
> Find resources to develop for the Windows desktop such as APIs and samples.
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>
>
> > > 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
> > > The suggested action sequences for a basic InstallExecuteSequence table
> > in
> > > a Windows Installer database.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------
> > > *From:* wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf
> of
> > > Ven H via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > > *Sent:* Monday, December 18, 2017 10:54 PM
> > > *To:* WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> > > *Cc:* Ven H
> > > *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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