MSI and GPW

[bristok]

Hello Installaware,

concerning the MSI Installation per Group Police Wizard two problems came up and therefore I would like to ask you some questions.

Our customers would like to install our software with the GPO/Client Management System. Hence we implemented our Software through the Group Police Wizard as MSI.
Our MSI contents several programs and features as exe-files which install themselves silently in the background.

Unfortunately these two problems arised:

First of all the customer has no posibility to adjust the path of TARGETDIR to his requirement.
I have checked the Forum and Help-page for some ways to deal with this problem but I only found the resulution to type it through the Group Police Wizard with CMDLINE. For example: CMDLINE = „TARGETDIR=D://MyApp/“
But if you change this entry with Orca (microsoft) under the headline „Property“ e.g.: at „C://Program Files/MyApp/“ the programm is still installed at „D://MyApp“.
Did we do anything wrong during the compilation of MSI or with our IA Project?

Second of all if the MSI per Client Managent System is shared silently, after a short period the system notifies you that the MSI was installed successfully.
But a closer look at the „Installations-Files“ reveals that the program is not yet installed completely and still in the process.
Is there any adjustment, that we can use to change the described fact, so that one can only see the „finish“-notification when the whole file is entirely installed?

Best wishes Benni

[FrancescoT]

Dear Benni,

for what concerns the TARGETDIR, you can also pass it as command line parameter when your installer gets executed.

Example;
msiexec.exe /i "setup.msi" CMDLINE="TARGETDIR=<path>" /quiet

Alternatively, you can even use an MST file for this purpose:
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6234

Regarding your other question, I suppose you are referring to the same argument already discussed with the following forum thread;
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9957
... unfortunately, it doesn't exist a possible workaround yet.

Hope this helps you.

Regards

[bristok]

Hi Francesco,

If i use you example "msiexec.exe /i "setup.msi" CMDLINE="TARGETDIR=<path>" /quiet" it works as expected.

However if i try to use an MST file the app gets installed to the original path as the MST file gets completely ignored.

If i take a look at the log file these two lines seem suspicous:
MSI (s) (3C:84) [10:15:52:744]: Transforms are not secure.
MSI (s) (3C:84) [10:15:52:744]: Transforming table Property.
Are these lines related to the problem?

Do you now a resaon why the MST file gets ignored?

Regards Benni

[FrancescoT]

Dear Benni,

this happens due the latest OS security policy, please have a look at following link.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371577(v=vs.85).aspx

Hope this helps you.