JordanD83
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Chained Prerequisites waiting until one finished before starting next

I have multiple chained prerequisites each installing a .msi, where each of those .msi's being installed needs to download to finish the install. How can I delay the installation of a proceeding .msi install run until the one before has been completed? I did read about creating Custom Behavior: Search, but I don't think I did it right. I created File Searches for a specific .exe of one of the prior installed .msi's, and for the Condition setting of the Install of the Chained install, I used "NOT xxxx " for example. but this did not work.
Catalin
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Re: Chained Prerequisites waiting until one finished before starting next

Hello Jordan,

Please note that this should be the default behavior here.

By default, the OS does not allow the installation of more than 1 MSI at a time, so each MSI package will be launched only after the previous is installed - to avoid this limitation.

Are you noticing a different behavior? Or perhaps can you give me some more details about your scenario (maybe I did not quite understand your request here)?

Best regards,
Catalin
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