Hello,
we currently are really happy with advancedinstaller, however we install a service and want to keep the service while updating, so that windows credentials that were manually inserted/changed, will be kept the same, so we change the Service Action from On Uninstall "Stop" / "Delete" to just "Stop" and removed the delete, now the update process works fine, however when completly removing the service it won't remove the service, is there a way to achieve this?
We use MSI's.
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Re: Uninstall Service, but not while updating MSI
Hello and welcome to our forums,
First of all, thank you for your kind words!
I am glad to hear you are happy with our product.
Regarding your scenario, in the Update service without changing its logon details thread we can see a similar user that removes the service using a Custom Action.
The reason why this happens is because an upgrade is basically:
- removal of the previous version
- installation of the newer version
so if the service is not removed on upgrade, it will not be removed during normal uninstall either.
For the custom action, we could use a "Launch File" that launches sc.exe (tool that comes by default with Windows OS).
Controlling a Service Using SC
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Catalin
First of all, thank you for your kind words!
I am glad to hear you are happy with our product.
Regarding your scenario, in the Update service without changing its logon details thread we can see a similar user that removes the service using a Custom Action.
The reason why this happens is because an upgrade is basically:
- removal of the previous version
- installation of the newer version
so if the service is not removed on upgrade, it will not be removed during normal uninstall either.
For the custom action, we could use a "Launch File" that launches sc.exe (tool that comes by default with Windows OS).
Controlling a Service Using SC
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Catalin