[wix-users] Issue with IIS Application Pool Settings

[Ven H]

Does anyone have any idea about this? Please advise.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:13 PM Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an MSI with the following component.
>
>  <Component Id="cmpAppPool" Guid="08B7E196-5F24-453A-9B28-9A9C9A2FC441"
> NeverOverwrite="yes" Directory="INSTALLFOLDER">
>         <CreateFolder />
>         <iis:WebAppPool Id="MyAppPool" Name="My App Pool"
> MaxWorkerProcesses="5" ManagedPipelineMode="Integrated"
> ManagedRuntimeVersion="v4.0" PrivateMemory="1800000" IdleTimeout="10" />
>       </Component>
>
> After installing this MSI, the app pool gets created successfully. Then I
> am manually modifying the MaxWorkerProcesses to 10 and the IdleTimeout=20
> in IIS.
>
> Then I build an upgrade MSI with the following component.
>
> <Component Id="cmpAppPool" Guid="08B7E196-5F24-453A-9B28-9A9C9A2FC441"
> NeverOverwrite="yes" Directory="INSTALLFOLDER">
>         <CreateFolder />
>         <iis:WebAppPool Id="MyAppPool" Name="My App Pool"
> MaxWorkerProcesses="6" ManagedPipelineMode="Integrated"
> ManagedRuntimeVersion="v4.0" PrivateMemory="1800000" IdleTimeout="11" />
> </Component>
>
> Even though I am using NeverOverwrite="yes" on the component, I can see
> that the values set manually by the user are getting overwritten. Also,
> there is a strange observation. Some settings which are manually updated
> retain their values after upgrade. So, some of the settings are always
> overwritten, irrespective of whether NeverOverwrite is set or not, while
> some settings are never overwritten. Is this a bug or I am missing
> something. Please help.
>
> This is a really critical business requirement wherein settings which are
> manually updated should not be overwritten during upgrade. Is this possible
> with the WiX elements?
>