What changed in Windows Installer (MSI) in Windows Vista Service Pack 1?

Reporting Issues?

Trejkaz — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:31:39 GMT

I know this is probably the wrong place, but I need to find out where to direct issues with Windows Installer.

Basically we have an installer which works under WiX 2.0, and then broke under WiX 3.0. But the WiX team are claiming that the error message is a validation done by WI itself, rather than being under their control.

So to be able to switch to WiX 3, we first need WI to properly support what we're doing.

Basically all we're doing is that there are some fonts we're shipping which we don't want to put in the system-wide Fonts directory. Apparently this is worth an error, although I don't understand why.

This form didn't let me put in an email, but it did let me put in a URL, through which you can trivially find contact info for a reply.

Thanks in advance. :-(

re: What changed in Windows Installer (MSI) in Windows Vista Service Pack 1?

zhakim — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:00:29 GMT

Thanks for your feedback, everyone.

Colby: Not all changes in a given Service Pack are documented in that SP's documentation. None of the changes listed in this posting were hotfixes or security updates released before SP1 and did not meet the "notable changes" bar for SP1. That is why we created this blog posting - so interested parties could know what has changed. :-)

Megh: The next redistributable we have planned for Windows Installer is version 4.5, due out later this summer. You can find information about accessing the 4.5 beta on this blog.

- Tyler

Windows Installer V 3.01.4001.5512

Megh Neupane — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:57:43 GMT

I noticed the msi version changed to 3.01.4001.5512 in Windows XP SP3? Any redistributable for this upgrade? If yes, link please and more details. Thanks,

re: What changed in Windows Installer (MSI) in Windows Vista Service Pack 1?

Colby — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:11:54 GMT

Why aren't the updates to MSI found in Vista SP1 listed in the Vista SP1 documentation?

Neither the "Hotfixes and Security Updates Included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1" page (http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/20184cb6-7038-4e82-a32c-4bc10ffe56ab1033.mspx?mfr=true) nor the "Notable Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1" page (http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/20184cb6-7038-4e82-a32c-4bc10ffe56ab1033.mspx?mfr=true) mentions the updates to MSI.

re: What changed in Windows Installer (MSI) in Windows Vista Service Pack 1?

Tanveer Badar — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:38:42 GMT

"Queries to the Win32_Product WMI class will if the machine has at least 2 per-user applications installed with a generic failure error."

Missing fail after "will".

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