Vista UAC and Regserver

[Mitch]

Vista won't allow me to register my application using a custom action if the UAC is enabled, even if the user has admin priviledges. I assume there must be a way to do this using the COM section of AdvancedInstaller Pro but I can't seem to get it to work. Can you provide an example or step by step instructions?

Thanks,
Mitch

[gabriel]

Hi,
Please try using a custom action without an impersonation property in Execution Options group.

Let me know if using no impersonation resolves your problem.

Regards,
Ovidiu

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[Mitch]

Thanks, that worked. However this user has Admin Priveledges and I though I haven't tested yet I presume it should work with a Standard User who requires elevation to install the program.

Mitch

[gabriel]

Hi,

Yes, it should work fine.

Glad to be of service,
Ovidiu

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Advanced Installer team
http://www.advancedinstaller.com

[Mitch]

Oops, not done yet. Since self registration for a COM DLL didn't work on Vista with UAC Enabled I tried the same strategy of using a custom action to register:

RegSvr32.exe /s "[#dll]"

Deferred with no impersonation

and ended up with an Ole Error. Any ideas on how to make this work?

Mitch

[Cosmin]

Hi,

Have you tried registering the COM with the "Extract registration info from native library" option? Also, how did you configure the custom action which runs regsvr32.exe? Are you using a configuration similar to the one in this thread?
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums ... php?t=4574

Regards,
Cosmin

[Mitch]

Yes, I tried the Auto Register/Self Register option first and got an Ole Error and then tried the strategy that worked with registering the COM server.

Property Name: RESULT_PROPERTY_REGSVR32.EXE
Source Type: Executable
Command Line: /s "[#RockWare_GIS_Link_2.dll]"

Synchronous execution, check return code

Deferred with no impersonation

Always Execute

Expression: NOT Installed

This appears to be a common Vista MSI problem and the only solutions I could find were to turn off UAC.

Mitch