Comments on: Windows Installer FAQ – Part 3

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By: bhawanarathore

bhawanarathore — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:34:52 +0000

Thanks!

By: msigeek

msigeek — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:12:53 +0000

Hi Bhawana, Thanks for your comments. Well, I would recommend you look at http://www.msigeek.com/category/windows-installer/ and http://www.msigeek.com/category/how-to/, These contain some nice materials covering from basics to advanced. (Do scroll through the older posts)

Further, you can always get in touch with me., if you have any specific questions. Thank You.!

By: bhawanarathore

bhawanarathore — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:17:45 +0000

As a beginner to packaging world, this info. really looks very useful to me..Thanks a lot !!

If you have any guide where I can learn about MSI packaging please do let me know..

Thanks in advance!

By: msigeek

msigeek — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:09:36 +0000

Yup.. Got your point. Lets cover the System Context and policy based deployment in detail in Part no 5.
Thanks for your comments Derek.

Btw, if you want to contribute in writing the FAQ questions and Answers. You are most welcome. Please make a set of 5 questions and lemme know. Lets keep this list growing.

Cheers'
Vijay

By: derekdousma

derekdousma — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:03:13 +0000

hi, indeed nice info, but perhaps in Q14 or Q15 you can also explain the system context (for your Custom Action) because now it looks like that you have to set you policy (elevated priveleges) or have to be a member of the admin group in order to iinstall specific msi packages.

Besides in my opinion you don't want to set the policy due to security reasons.
This will mean that every msi package can do everything on you local machine regardles of which account is kicking off the msi.

Kind regards,
Derek Dousma

By: msigeek

msigeek — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:08:56 +0000

Hi Bhuavana, Thanks for your comments. I really appreciate it.

By: Bhuvana

Bhuvana — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:40:03 +0000

Hi Vijay

Good one.

I have a suggestion for Q12. How do you determine the installer Version in a machine

If the MSI Version needs to be checked with script or programmatically, you can create an vbs file with the following VBScript code
set installer = createobject("windowsinstaller.installer")
msgbox "MSI Version - " & installer.version

Thanks
Bhuvana

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Windows Installer FAQ - Part 4 | MSigeek.com — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:44:35 +0000

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By: hi

hi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:27:12 +0000

nice information

By: Vijay Raj

Vijay Raj — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:54:24 +0000

Thanks a lot Dude.!!

By: Rodolfo Barbosa

Rodolfo Barbosa — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:42:09 +0000

VJ Very useful information ! The Software package community may be glad for your contribution.
Regards
Rodolfo