[wpkg-users] MSI install issues

[Malte Starostik]

{looks like i used the wrong sender address when i sent this some two days 
ago, i hope it won't be duplicated now, basically what others said}

Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 17:48:45 schrieb Shier, Jon:
> That seems to work, why would I need not need to supply that on all of the
> msi files?

AFAIR, it's:
0 - install to current user's profile
1 - install system global
2 - decide depending on whether the current user has admin rights

MOST packages luckily come with a more or less sane default of 2, although I 
personally totally oppose the idea of a non-admin user (the account, not the 
person) installing software.
Other packages' authors unfortunately think 0 is a good default - or maybe 
they just didn't care at all and the package „works“ for the usual single user 
box.  Those are the ones you need to tweak.
And then there's the odd package that behaves like a 0, but doesn't honour the 
ALLUSERS property at all.  That's where Orca or InstEd come to help.

Regards,
Malte

PS:  <rant>It's a total mess, just have a look at SYSTEM's profile 
(%SystemRoot%\system32\config\systemprofile) on a box running WPKGClient or 
WPKG-GP.  All kinds of broken installers place all kinds rubbish there. IMHO 
there should be a system wide option for ALLUSERS and other more or less 
universal properties and installers should be denied write access to 
%USERPROFILE% unless ALLUSERS is explicitly set to 0.  And while at it, just 
ban those useless desktop and tray icons for programs that are only ever 
opened via they're associated documents.  Cluttering unsuspecting users' 
screen estate should be a criminal offence.</rant>

> ~Jon
> 
> 
> 
> From: heiko.helmle at horiba.com [mailto:heiko.helmle at horiba.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:17 PM
> To: Shier, Jon
> Cc: 'wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org'
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] MSI install issues
> 
> wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org<mailto:wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org> 
wrote on 08.09.2011 03:41:01:
> > I have one msi install that I am having issues with using wpkg, it
> > will not create the program files shortcuts or desktop shortcuts. I
> > have moved this msi from a standard windows domain GPO, which
> > installs just fine. I just wanted to try to keep all my installs in
> > one spot. From what I can tell in the logs it installs fine with no
> > errors. Has anyone run into this before?
> 
> Did you set any properties? Try ALLUSERS=1 - this helps most MSI install
> the Shortcuts into %ALLUSERSPROFILE% instead of %USERPROFILE%.
> 
> Best Regards
>         Heiko


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