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- Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:56 am
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Windows service account and upgrades
- Replies: 5
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Re: Windows service account and upgrades
Understood. Anyway, thanks for assistance!
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:37 am
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Windows service account and upgrades
- Replies: 5
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Re: Windows service account and upgrades
This is very unfortunate behavior. Major upgrade strategy for smaller products is the most convenient way to update the product. And for many aspects in AI it is possible to define task execution conditions. Services are not changed often even during major upgrades. Service executables -- they may c...
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 12:36 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Display changes of previous version of an project
- Replies: 5
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Re: Display changes of previous version of an project
disclaimer: I'm not an AI support, just random user of AI Custom PS scripts aren't encrypted, they are encoded and you can easily recover the script using PowerShell. Copy encoded string from XML tag value to clipboard, then in PowerShell console insert copied base64 string: $base64 = @" <paste...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:00 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Replace uninstaller
- Replies: 5
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Re: Replace uninstaller
understood. I have to keep same product ID and upgrade ID in order to re-cache the installer.The ProductCode should be the same for the recache operation I've mentioned, not for installing the new MSI over the old MSI.
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:30 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Windows service account and upgrades
- Replies: 5
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Windows service account and upgrades
Our application installs the Windows service along with install process. By default we configure the service to run under "Network Service" account, it is configured in AI project. However, we treat this as default installation and recommend (though not requiring) customers to use gMSA ser...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:18 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Replace uninstaller
- Replies: 5
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Re: Replace uninstaller
Hello Catlin, thanks for your fast response! That probably happens because you have changed the ProductCode property and now Windows Installer sees your MSI as an upgrade. this may happen since we use Azure DevOps pipelines to build the MSI. It appears it re-generates the product code every time we ...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:31 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Replace uninstaller
- Replies: 5
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Replace uninstaller
We have an MSI package which includes custom actions executed during install and uninstall to configure certain things on install and roll back on uninstall. However we detected a major flaw in custom action script executed on uninstall. My aim is to fix the MSI (only custom action, all other settin...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 2:10 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Installer fails on Windows Server 2022 Server Core
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8208
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Re: Installer fails on Windows Server 2022 Server Core
That was it! I have no idea why I tried to call misexec against .exe, must be some mind eclipse.
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:30 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Installer fails on Windows Server 2022 Server Core
- Replies: 3
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Installer fails on Windows Server 2022 Server Core
I've build an MSI installer which is intended for Windows Server family with the Server Core support. I'm running it as follows: msiexec /i "path to msi.exe" /quiet /qn /L*V c:\msi.log and it fails with the following content in log file: === Verbose logging started: 25.10.2021 16:02:36 Bui...
- Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:43 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Windows Service properties during product upgrade
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9211
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Re: Windows Service properties during product upgrade
Just a follow up. It seems this doesn't work. Even making suggested changes, installer overwrites custom settings on a service.
- Wed May 26, 2021 5:54 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Custom APPDATA path when CurrentUser installation option is chosen
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3745
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Re: Custom APPDATA path when CurrentUser installation option is chosen
I have only Pro license, can't edit or interact with dialogs.- select the "Next" button and under "Published Events" tab
- Mon May 24, 2021 5:05 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Custom APPDATA path when CurrentUser installation option is chosen
- Replies: 3
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Custom APPDATA path when CurrentUser installation option is chosen
I'm building an x64-only installer with extra InstallTypeDlg dialog where user can choose installation type. What I can't figure out is how to specify custom path to APPDATA variable. To me it defaults to somewhere in %AppData% which is not the right folder in my case. The idea I want to implement i...
- Mon May 24, 2021 8:33 am
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Windows Service properties during product upgrade
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9211
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Re: Windows Service properties during product upgrade
Thanks, I will take a look into this option and let you know with outcome.
- Sun May 16, 2021 2:10 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Windows Service properties during product upgrade
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9211
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Re: Windows Service properties during product upgrade
Thanks Catalin,
sorry for late response. Your answer confirms my concern.
sorry for late response. Your answer confirms my concern.
but won't this action execute during upgrade and cause same effect -- service is removed and all custom settings are gone as well?I'd say we could have a custom action that removes the service only during uninstall.
- Wed May 05, 2021 10:22 am
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Windows Service properties during product upgrade
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9211
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Windows Service properties during product upgrade
My product includes a Windows Service to install with some default settings (actions, user account, etc.) when new service is installed. Product upgrade to to version consist of "Remove previous version and install new version": Capture.PNG To my knowledge, the service will be removed upon...