Group Policy Wizard with Native Setup

[JeffryPaul]

I built a compressed setup using the Native Installaware engine. I recieve the following error when attempting to use the Group Policy Wizard to wrap the setup with an MSI wrapper.
I receive the following error message:

Unable to verify <path to compressed setup.exe> as an InstallAware compressed setup.

Is there an update to the Group Policy Wizard to support the Native Engine? Is there a workaround in the meantime?

[giaviv]

Dear JeffryPaul,

There must be something else that is causing this not to work, I am able to use the Group Policy Wizard on a compressed Native Engine build without a problem.

Could it be that you check the Debug Build checkbox under Build in the Project Settings window?

[JeffryPaul]

Aviv,

The setup is configured as follows:
Deployment Type: "Compressed Web-Based EXE"
Always Cache Setup Sourced: Checked
Debug Build: Unchecked
Signed with Authenticode: Checked (all related fields are entered)
Best Compression
256AES Encryption: Unchecked
Reduce MSI file component count: Checked
Reduce MSI registry component count: Checked
Generate stable identifiers: checked
Calculate file hashes for Windows Installed: checked

[giaviv]

Hi,

I was still able to run the wizard with all those settings (other than the signing) applied.

Please try to remove the signing and let me know if that changes anything.

Thanks!

[JeffryPaul]

The problem was a result of my project having the following compiler variable: NO_MSI=TRUE.

The help documentation states:
NO_MSI: Controls whether Windows Installer support will be disabled at runtime - when disabled, this speeds up the setup build process.

However, it doesn't state that the Group Policy converter won't work with this setting enabled.

[giaviv]

Thanks for the note Jeffry! We will look into that.