Installing service under different account depending on OS

[Uniwares_AS]

Right, I am trying to install a service either under the NETWORK SERVICE account if the operating system is Windows 2003 or later, but LOCALSYSTEM on any other OS.

Questions:
1) how do I set the condition for the service account setting?
2) what to put in the password field for the NETWORK SERVICE account?

[Cosmin]

Hi,

In order to condition the installation of the service you can use the components in the "Organization" page. These are the steps:
- in the"Custom Actions" page you create 2 "Property set with formatted" custom actions under the "InstallUISequence" -> "CostFinalize" folder (you can add the "CostFinalize" standard action by using the "Show standard action" button on the toolbar)
- the first custom action looks like this:

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Property Name: ACCOUNT
Formatted Text: NETWORK SERVICE (or "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE")
Expression: VersionNT=502 (this field is in the "Execution Condition" section)

For more information on the VersionNT property look here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370556.aspx
- the second custom action looks like this:

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Property Name: ACCOUNT
Formatted Text: SYSTEM
Expression: VersionNT<>502 (this field is in the "Execution Condition" section)

- in the "Services" page you add your service and in the "User Name" field you set [ACCOUNT]
- you leave the "Password" field empty because these accounts don't have passwords.

Regards,
Cosmin

[Uniwares_AS]

Works like a charm. Thank you very much.

Although I got a bit confused by the smartedit field for the service account name. After creating the custom actions, I went to change the service settings and entered the name of the property in the field - the smartedit insisted that the property was unknown/missing. Only after leaving the field, ignoring the hint and switching from this page, AI added the property to the list of user defined properties. That behaviour is somewhat confusing. But I guess that is a feature and not a bug and one has to get used to it.

[Rawand]

Hi, I have a same situation here, i want it like that if it was Windows Vista then the service to be installed as Administrator but then we need to have a password , i wonder if its possible?

Regards

[Cosmin]

Hi,

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Can you please give me more details about this?

Regards,
Cosmin

[Rawand]

Hi,
What i mean is now in AI there is Service Account username and password while configuring service properties, i want to have this account information entered by user during installation and install the service under that entered account if its possible.
Regards

[Cosmin]

Hi,

This can be done by using properties in the "User Name" and "Password" fields of the Service Properties page. These properties can be set by using a custom dialog like in the Create a new dialog tutorial. Note that instead of "Server Address" and "Port number" your custom dialog will get the username and password of the service.

Regards,
Cosmin