Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

re: Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

Daniel McGloin — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:37:56 GMT

Thanks for documenting this important info. I have a question regarding how we can leverage Restart Manager in our products. We have our own patching UI that uses MsiApplyMultiplePatches and MsiSetExternalUIRecord. We may be calling MsiApplyMultiplePatches several times in one user interaction with our patch UI - much like is done in the Windows Update experience. Is there any way to avoid having applications restart at the end of each call to MsiApplyMultiplePatches? For instance, can we use RmStartSession then hand off the session key to each MsiApplyMultiplePatches call, let any applications or services shutdown as needed, then call RmRestart after the last MsiApplyMultiplePatches completes?

re: Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

Donald Ryan — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:30:18 GMT

This is fantastic information - you should publish for other MSI related behavior. eg What happens on restart when an MSI didn't full succeed: does it try a repair or does it try a silent install, or does it maintain a list of files which failed to copy?

re: Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

Satheeshkumar T — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:43:42 GMT

How can I create msi file for my web application

re: Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

SQL Protocols — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:29:06 GMT

My question is related to MSI.

How to specify a custom action that run only during uninstallation.

Can custom action check MSI database ref-count on a component?

re: Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

Windows Installer Team — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:16:46 GMT

To answer Daniel's question: We provide the MsiGetPatchFileList API for patch-chainers to get the list of files from several patches so that the chainer can manage the Restart Manager interaction. You can also apply multiple patches in the same transaction using the MsiApplyMultiplePatches API and we will handle the restart managr interaction for you.

re: Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

David Schwarz — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:36:14 GMT

Can you be any more specific about what can cause the installer to throw message 1611 in step 9)? For example, if the RM finds that it can't shut down an application in step 4), would that lead to a 1611 message or a different message?

I ask because I'm consistently getting a 1611 message in an installer I'm building, and trying to come up with a list of possible reasons it couldn't close the application.

re: Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

Periyannan Muthaiah — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:28:19 GMT

I have one question. I have added MsiRMFilesInUse authored dlg to my setup file. In Vista, I try to uninstall my application, when my application is running. In this case Installer is not showing the MsiRMFilesInUse dlg. In log file I am getting error code 1610.

Could you please tell me, what I need to do extra to get the MsiRMFilesInUse dlg.

Note:

My MSI file shema is 200.

My OS is Vista

My MSI has MsiRMFilesInUse resource.

The OEM Ready Program and RMTool.exe

Yves Dolce — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:29:42 GMT

On the The OEM Ready Program page, OEM’s can download the OEM Ready Program Test Cases for Windows Vista