Custom Action Administrator Privileges

[shLin]

Hi everyone, I am trying to run one custom action that modify the windows registry (exe file), but I get the following message:

"You do not have access to make the required system configuration modifications, Please rerun this installation from an administrators account"

Custom Action configuration:
Install process
Synchronous execution, check return code
Immediate execution
Always Execute

somebody knows how can I run the msi with administrator privileges?

thanks in advance.

[Cosmin]

Hi,

To run a custom action with full privileges you can schedule it between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize actions as Deferred with no impersonation. This way it will run under the SYSTEM account.

Regards,
Cosmin

[shLin]

Thanks for the information, I set my Custom ACtion between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize actions as Deferred with no impersonation, and everything works fine.

Thanks,