[wix-users] Admin Privs

[Charles Gallo [9Dots Management]]

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
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 12:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Admin Privs

You need to make sure running it inside InstallExecuteSequence with execute="deferred" and impersonate="no"

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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> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On 
> 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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