[wix-users] Admin Privs

[John Cooper]

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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John Merryweather Cooper
Senior Software Engineer -- Integration Development Group -- Enterprise Notification Service
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Office:  913-341-3434x431050
JoCooper at jackhenry.com





-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Charles Gallo [9Dots Management]
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 11:45 AM
To: WiX Mailing List (wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org) <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] Admin Privs

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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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