[wix-users] MSI MajorUpgrade is not detecting old version

[Stein Inge Åsmul]

Does that auto-magically clean out older per-user installs now?

2018-07-16 0:16 GMT+02:00 Rob Mensching via wix-users <
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> Or set the new WiX-based Package/@InstallScope='perMachine'  :)
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> Stein Inge Åsmul via wix-users
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> Cc: Stein Inge Åsmul <glytzhkof at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] MSI MajorUpgrade is not detecting old version
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> Maybe also a note that you could conceivably use your logon script, or
> maybe WMI (I have never tried for per user stuff) to clean out the existing
> per-user installations?
>
> I like the logon script approach, provided you have access to it (can be
> an endless sea of red tape in big environments or disallowed by principle
> of course). Just have your users log off on Friday, perform various
> maintenance and then uninstall on login for all of them?
>
> 2018-07-15 20:15 GMT+02:00 Stein Inge Åsmul <glytzhkof at gmail.com>:
>
> > The best approach would perhaps be to clean out the existing per-user
> > install via your distribution mechanism (SCCM?) and then rely on
> > per-machine installations from now on? Or perhaps continue to install
> > per-user? Hope not ;-). How about changing your new version to be able
> > to install side-by-side with the per-user installation? (no
> > interference between them - not always possible)
> >
> > Rob has an answer here on cleaning out old installs:
> > https://stackoverflow.com/a/15659159/129130 (if you don't have
> > features in your distribution system to do so auto-magically):
> >
> > You'll see a comment in that answer from me with another tip on how to
> > do a per-user to per-machine migration using Installshield (
> > https://stackoverflow.com/a/12291807/129130). It is an involved
> > procedure that worked for me in a particular case, but it is quite
> > clunky. I have never tried it with WiX.
> >
> > How large is your distribution?
> >
> > 2018-07-14 15:15 GMT+02:00 Nir Bar via wix-users <
> > wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>:
> >
> >> MSI_new.log says: MSI (c) (E4:0C) [08:15:00:855]: FindRelatedProducts:
> >> current install is per-user.  Related install for product
> >> '{41EEEE03-A050-46D8-82EC-4C6834A6A8C1}' is per-machine.  Skipping...
> >> -- Nir Bar, Independent WiX Expert. Creator of- JetBA: WiX WPF
> >> Bootstrapper User Interface Framework JetBA++: WiX Native
> >> Bootstrapper User Interface Framework JetRummikub: Install WiX
> >> packages on remote machines
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