[wix-users] execution context for an All-Users install

Alan Sinclair anadem at gmail.com
Fri Sep 8 07:11:16 PDT 2017


in particular I need to know the context for a custom action dll

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Alan Sinclair <anadem at gmail.com> wrote:

> During an interactive All-Users install we know the process is elevated so
> that it can install to %ProgramFiles% but what user context is it running
> under? SYSTEM or the current user that initiated the installer?
>
>  During an automated install (pushed out as a group policy object) what
> user context are we running under, is it SYSTEM?
>
> thanks
>
> Alan
>



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