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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:17 AM

Arbitrary labels used as Primary keys must not be changed between versions

Summary Msi Editing tools that write auto generated references inside installer tables may cause unnecessary content to be included inside a patch. ‘Patching’ components with unchanged content may cause them to be uninstalled when the patch is removed
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 10 Comments
Friday, November 11, 2005 7:00 AM

Windows Installer Troubleshooting Tips from First Week of November

Question 1 What is the correct way to find whether a certain product (msi based setup) is installed on the machine? Answer 1 Searching for Existing Applications, Files, Registry Entries or .ini File Entries [Windows Installer] lists the built-in detect
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:00 AM

Windows Installer Troubleshooting Tips From Halloween

Question 1 In my lab automation that silently installs Windows Installer packages. This automation is inconsistently getting Error 1618 from its msiexec calls. Please help unblock this scenario as it's inhibiting our push to ship. Troubleshooting 1 First,
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 7 Comments
Monday, October 03, 2005 7:00 AM

Our patches seem to work fine, yet none of the files on the disk are replaced.

Question I am seeing a very strange issue with patches on msi 2.0, our patches seem to work fine, yet none of the files on the disk are replaced. I tried regenerating the patches with the 2.0 toolset , but that did not help. Answer For MSI20 Patches,
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 4 Comments
 
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