Wix to IA

[ngurram]

Hello, I have a couple of questions about Wix and IA migration / conversion.
One of my other teams used Wix tool to generate installers (msi) and I am asked to take over. I would like to convert / migrate them over to IA. As a part of that research, I had below couple of questions. I would appreciate your help if any one knows or have done this successfully.

1. Is there a tool or any way to automatically wix script to IA script?
2. Also should I be able to take UpgradeCode Guid (of wix script) and use it for Product code GUID in IA? Would it handle upgrades from Wix generated msi to IA generated exe?

Thanks in advance.

[FrancescoT]

Unfortunately,, it's not available a Wix converter.

In case you have "InstallAware Studio admin" Editio, you may use "PackageAware" tool to capture the installation.

PackageAware is an intelligent wizard that captures the changes a setup makes to a system. You may use PackageAware to monitor the results of any installation, and it will create a ready-to-use installation project that can be immediately built in InstallAware. PackageAware provides a very easy way to migrate legacy installations into Windows Installer, and InstallAware.

For what concerns the UpgradeCode Guid of your wix project, an IA setup cannot detect an update condition over a Wix generated MSI. My recommendation is to assign a new and unique PRODUCTCODE to your IA setup projects. While to detect your existing Wix installations, you can easily use the approach I described with my reply to your other post.
https://www.installaware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11365#p43319

[ngurram]

Thanks Francesco, I will try your solution from the thread you mentioned.

Thanks