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Hello, One of our customers reported regarding the headless app error in the msix upload . Apparently, you have to have to get a waiver from them. You need to contact Microsoft’s store operations support team. A headless app is one that doesn’t have a specific start point (like a library) or one tha...

Hi, As I said, this message is displayed when the install condition is not verified. Can you please let me know if the prerequisite was however installed? If the prerequisite was not installed, then the warning is correct. To see why the prerequisite was not installed, please pass the following comm...

Hello, Can you please attach a printscreen with the erorr that you have during installation? Also a log file will help us a lot to have a better view about this. To crate a log, please check the how do i create a log article. When you get that Warning 4154, can you please check if the prerequisite w...

Hi Akshay, You must make sure your prerequisite install conditions are correct from the conditions tab. These conditions are evaluated two times: - first to determine whether the prerequisite should be installed - a second time, after the prerequisite has been installed, to determine whether the pre...

Hello, It seems that Windows 10 KB4551762 breaks the installation process when installed on a shared location with Basic or Silent UI level. Recently we’ve received some complaints from our users that they cannot install updates, be it a major upgrades or patches when the destination (install folder...

Hello, Starting with 16.9 version of Advanced Installer , the Updater has the ability to display custom messages to your users. This feature may be of great help when you want to reach your users either be it with great offers for the software, campaign discounts or just latest blog article. It does...

Hello, There are cases when you install WebApps where the user is asked to select a SSL certificate during installation. The related certificate being used by the IIS elements. Although Advanced Installer has predefined support for this, in case you also want to preserve the SSL certificate the the ...

Hi David, Since I dont need any capability I have checked off the 'Full Trust' option from the Capabilitties page. Please note that the related option is mandatory for all Win32 apps converted to MSIX. All the apps that are not native UWP and use Win32 API needs to have the realted option enabled. D...

The Running PowerShell scripts in MSIX video shows how you can configure the MSIX package to run PowerShell scripts during MSIX deployment.

If you have used this approach please let us know what was your scenario.

Hello, The MSIX has limitation, no news here. In case you want to migrate the current supported features to MSIX and install the unsuported features from MSI (e.g. drivers) and have a single distribution package as MSIX then it is possible. You can include the MSI in the MSIX and trigger the MSI ins...

Hello,

We don't have yet support for this but we are working on this. Once this feature will be available in Advanced Installer, I will let you know.

Thank you for your suggestion.

Best regards,
Dan

Hello, Here's a sample project where you can see how to interact with the MSI database at runtime, through a custom action. The sample project is attached to this thread, so if you are interested to take a look directly at my project, you are more than welcome to download the ZIP file. For debugging...

Hello, Please keep in mind that custom actions must return a value of 0 for success. The installer interprets any other return value as failure. Also, in order to continue with the installation even the custom action returns a value other then 0, you can uncheck the “Fails installation if custom act...

Hello, In order to see what fails during the uninstall process, can you pleae create a log file of the uninstall process? Can you please send us the .AIP (project file) and a verbose log of the uninstall process to support at advancedinstaller dot com so we can investigate it? If it contains confide...

Hello, In case you have a subscription for Installer Analytics and need to link to your installers here's more details. In the Analytics view from Advanced Installer you can track your installations, just enable the Installer Analytics. Once the checkbox has been enabled, an ID will be generated for...

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