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- Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:15 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Automatic updater.exe continues to run after updating.
- Replies: 3
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Re: Automatic updater.exe continues to run after updating.
Hi Catalin, Thanks for responding. Sorry for the delay. I found a way in the end using powershell. A service we install allows us to pass in custom scripts, so when this service is running the script will check if the updater is still running and kill the process. You confirmed what i suspected, but...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Automatic updater.exe continues to run after updating.
- Replies: 3
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Automatic updater.exe continues to run after updating.
Hi, I have a question regarding the behaviour of the auto update scheduled task. i've noticed that when the executable runs and downloads the update files, after completing the installation the updater still runs in the background. The scheduled task is created with Advanced Installer, however to ge...
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:48 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: "watcher" service to check service status
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2133
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Re: "watcher" service to check service status
Hi Catalin. Thanks for getting back to me. The service runs in the background whether someone is logged on or not, but we've noticed it fail a few times. sometimes we don't know until after an hour or so when we stop seeing performance data coming in. This is something we'd want to run in the backgr...
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:43 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: "watcher" service to check service status
- Replies: 3
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"watcher" service to check service status
Hello, Does advanced installer have a feature in which i can create a "watcher" type of service that will start my main service if it stops? Currently we install our application as a windows service and have set the recovery options to restart the service if it fails but we've noticed that...
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:42 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Is there anywhere in the cloud I can put a .msi file for users to access
- Replies: 2
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Re: Is there anywhere in the cloud I can put a .msi file for users to access
Personally, where i work we host the files on a web server (for our application) but you could probably use something like DropBox or MS OneDrive personal or maybe a google drive?
You could share the links from there and password protect it if you wanted.
You could share the links from there and password protect it if you wanted.
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:20 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Persistent properties during update don't seem to be persistent.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4007
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Re: Persistent properties during update don't seem to be persistent.
Hi Catalin, thanks for your understanding. I've forwarded the AIP and installer over to the support email address along with some other versions of my application and copies of some of the older AIP files, hopefully they are of some use to you. I've sent them as a OneDrive link. If you could point m...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:24 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Persistent properties during update don't seem to be persistent.
- Replies: 7
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Re: Persistent properties during update don't seem to be persistent.
Thanks Catalin, sorry for the delay. This is one of a few different things I'm working and have been struggling to find time to come back to it. I'll try and get them over to you ASAP, although I'm not sure i still have the older version. I only have one AIP file which I've used throughout, should i...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Persistent properties during update don't seem to be persistent.
- Replies: 7
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Re: Persistent properties during update don't seem to be persistent.
Hi Catalin, thank you. I'm not quite sure which situation i am in, but i think there might be something i've changed or misconfigured. If i go to the registry page in AI I only have entries for current user > software > manufacturer > productName. This contains "version". If i look in hkey...
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 3:14 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Drive Selection
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3301
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Re: Drive Selection
Hi, i'm only just getting chance to work on this, I've got the drive selection part working based on the guide you provided. I've changed the replace part slightly to drop the \ from the drive name as i need to pass it to a configuration file and the \ part would break it. At the moment I'm getting ...
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:12 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Persistent properties during update don't seem to be persistent.
- Replies: 7
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Persistent properties during update don't seem to be persistent.
Hi again, I'm running into an issue where the persistent properties i set during installation don't seem to be used/passed to the updater.exe file when I run it. I have it configured as a scheduled task with two actions, the first is a configuration update. It uses powershell to grab the config loca...
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:22 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Drive Selection
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3301
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Re: Drive Selection
Thanks Catalin! Looks quite detailed I'll have a look this afternoon:)
thank you
thank you
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:02 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Drive Selection
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3301
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Drive Selection
Hi, When i run the installer to install my windows service, i need to show a list of all available drive instances on a local machine. From there i want to be able to select the drive instances i want. When the installer completes a config file is output with these drives instances included. Then my...
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:38 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Failed updates completely uninstall my application
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1535
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Failed updates completely uninstall my application
Hello, long time no post! (we have a license now :D ) I had a strange issue last week in which an auto update completely removed my application/windows service. I Think it was failing due to some registry entries - i have some persistent entries which had default values "Select One". so......
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:34 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Windows services with different config options
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5819
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Re: Windows services with different config options
Hi,
I found a way around this now. I've removed the bits from the config that could change and download them separately now so i don't need to change the config file thats in use when installing the service.
Thanks
I found a way around this now. I've removed the bits from the config that could change and download them separately now so i don't need to change the config file thats in use when installing the service.
Thanks
- Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:33 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Windows services with different config options
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5819
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Windows services with different config options
Hello, When i install my application it grabs the config file from a remote server. This is working great. I have two rules set up 1) if the "system type" = "Citrix XenApp" then download http://[config_url]/XenApp.conf 2) if the system type is != "Citrix XenApp" then do...