[wix-users] ManagedPipeline property of Application Pool in IIS getting reset during Major Upgrade

[Hoover, Jacob]

Yes it’s part of Wix. - https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blob/develop/src/ext/ca/serverca/scaexec/scaexecIIS7.cpp

It may be a Wix bug, or it may just be designed that way. I wasn’t the author of this, so I don’t know much in the way of the details. To me, it seems like we are missing a read for that setting, which I believe has to happen once elevated, due to some IIS strangeness.

(It may be as simple as adding a Iis7GetPropertyString call and only set the default if it doesn’t already have a value.)


From: Ven H [mailto:venh.123 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 10:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] ManagedPipeline property of Application Pool in IIS getting reset during Major Upgrade

Thank you Jacob. Is this file part of WixToolSet? So, does this mean that there is a bug, either in IIS or WiX? Sorry, but honestly, I didn't understand much, as I am new to WiX. Can you please be kind enough to elaborate a bit on that and also, if possible, shed some light on solving this issue?

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:36 PM, Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com<mailto:Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>> wrote:
I believe it could be caused by:

scaexecIIS7.cpp @ Line 3573:
    //For WiX II6 /ABO compat we will default managedPipelineMode="Classic"
    hr = Iis7PutPropertyString(pAppPoolElement, IIS_CONFIG_PIPELINEMODE, L"Classic");

But I don’t know the intent behind the action, so I am not entirely positive.  If the CA doesn’t have a pipeline mode authored, one would think the scheduling/immediate CA would have read the current state and placed it’s vale on the CA.  But I know IIS did some wonky stuff like requiring admin to read it’s configuration.

Either way, I don’t have a pool of IIS boxes to work against, so I am not much help from here.

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Subject: Re: [wix-users] ManagedPipeline property of Application Pool in IIS getting reset during Major Upgrade

Any help?

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com<mailto:venh.123 at gmail.com>> wrote:
In both the cases (Install & Upgrade MSIs), I am not setting this property and the same applies to ManagedRuntimeVersion also. But ManagedRuntimeVersion setting is retained whereas ManagedPipelineMode is not.

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:23 PM, Hoover, Jacob via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>> wrote:
But what does the @ManagedPipelineMode in your updated installer look like?

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Subject: Re: [wix-users] ManagedPipeline property of Application Pool in IIS getting reset during Major Upgrade

It's been a long time since I've worked with App Pools in WiX but is your upgrade deleting the old App Pool and creating a new one? Try checking the verbose log for signs of the App Pool getting deleted.

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Edwin G. Castro


On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Ven H via wix-users < wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>> wrote:

> I am creating an Application Pool through MSI. The Application Pool
> has Id, Name and some advanced properties set like CpuLimit,
> MaxWorkerProcesses and so on, but I am not setting the values for the
> basic settings like ManagedPipeline or ManagedRuntimeVersion. When the
> application pool gets created, the properties are set as expected.
> Once the application pool is created, I also manually set some other
> properties also, including ManagedPipeline. The default for the
> ManagedPipeline is Classic and I changed it to Integrated.
>
> In my Upgrade MSI, I am setting some other properties on the App Pool.
> When the Upgrade MSI runs, it updates the other properties as
> expected, retains the changes done manually. So far so good. But, the
> ManagedPipeline property is getting reset to Classic, though I had set
> it to Integrated manually after installation, even though other
> manually updated settings are retained. Can anyone please help me fix this?
>
> Regards,
> Venkatesh
>
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