[wix-users] Admin Privs

Tue Feb 7 11:56:30 PST 2017

OK - I looked, whomever wrote the previous version (in InstallShield - LONG before I joined the company) had the call AFTER InstallFinalize

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Edwin Castro
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 2:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Admin Privs

I second John's declaration that InstallUtil.exe is evil!

Justin's response should get you where you need to go if you cannot stop using InstallUtil.exe at this time. Remember that you'll need to schedule the custom action between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize to get execute="deferred" and impersonate="no" to work as desired.

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Edwin G. Castro

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Charles Gallo [9Dots Management] <CGallo at ixdots.com> wrote:
> OK - I'll look at this.  This all has to do with an excel Ribbon
>
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> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On 
> Behalf Of Justin Cox
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> You need to make sure running it inside InstallExecuteSequence with execute="deferred" and impersonate="no"
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> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:50 AM John Cooper <JoCooper at jackhenry.com> wrote:
>
>> InstallUtil.exe is evil.  Handling rollback, repair, and un-install 
>> are not fun with it.
>>
>> See the ServiceInstall and ServiceControl elements.  I use them quite 
>> a bit and I have several Windows Service among they various projects 
>> I support.
>>
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>> Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | 
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Behalf Of Charles Gallo [9Dots Management]
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>> Hi Guys and Gals,
>>
>> OK, I'm having an interesting issue -
>>
>> I have an installer that DOES have
>>
>> InstallPrivileges="elevated"
>>
>> And yes, I get the shield, and the request for Privileges (and the 
>> log shows that it happening)
>>
>> The issue I have is that the installer also calls InstallUtil.exe 
>> (from the .Net dir) in a custom action
>>
>> (Note:  I'm translating this from Installshield), and THIS is not 
>> getting called with Admin Privs so it is failing, unless I run from a 
>> command window that has higher privs
>>
>> Now, I'm going to guess that there is some "better" way than calling 
>> InstallUtil, or there is some way to call it elevated
>>
>> Help?
>>
>> Charlie
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