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JerryP — Wed, 05 May 2004 13:47:00 GMT

Welcome to blogging - installation is and has always been a big issue.
Maybe you can answer this question(s) "Why are MS Installer all so different, why do many of them have problems with unattended installation - and why do they sometimes need a user logged on?"

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Aaron Stebner — Wed, 05 May 2004 15:57:00 GMT

This is a really good question and another one of my pet peeves. It seems like there isn't an established standard for how to create a good or well-behaved MSI setup, even within Microsoft. For example, a lot of the stuff we learned on the setup team I worked on came from feedback for our released products. Visual Studio 2002 was the first version of VS to use MSI, and we missed some key scenarios - specifically related to Active Directory and other types of unattended deployment.

So, to answer your questions based on my experiences so far - so many teams are creating their own setups which leads to some differences in look-and-feel and functionality. Unattended installation is too often left until the end in product design and testing and not enough focus is put on deployment scenarios. This is not true across the board, some of our products do a really good job addressing these scenarios I think, but many do not.

Requiring a logged on user is very dependent on what the setup itself is trying to do to configure the product it is installing. There are cases where some level of elevated privileges are needed, but there are also cases where it is enforced by a setup but not truly needed and it just happened to be easier to author the setup that way.

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josh ledgard — Wed, 05 May 2004 20:17:00 GMT

You should prop this answer to a blog post so its easier for people to find... good stuff Aaron.

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Tom Holland — Thu, 06 May 2004 14:11:00 GMT

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for the blog! I am looking forward to your future posts. I do repackaging of legacy applications into MSI.

Just one note, it looks like the link to the "MSDN Windows XP Embedded resources page" is incorrect.

Again, thanks for the blog!

Tom Holland
http://allmsi.com

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