MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta

MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta - Click & Solve

MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta - Click & Solve — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:49:43 GMT

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re: MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta

Mike Diack — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:56:11 GMT

Are you willing/able to say if Installer 5.0 will be backported to legacy OS's eg Vista/XP as 4.5 was?

Mike

re: MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta

Windows Installer Team — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:38:16 GMT

Dear Mike, presently there is no plan for an out of band release. Some of the functionality included with MSI 5.0 is specific to Windows 7 and would not make sense to port down-level. All MSI 4.5 features are also included in MSI 5.0 in Windows 7.

re: MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta

Joe — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:58:48 GMT

When will windows installer support updating c:\documents and settings\default user\ntuser.dat?

re: MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta

Greg Lambert — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:36:40 GMT

It's a shame that we could not use some of the new Service Install and Configuration functionality that ships with Windows Installer (MSI) 5 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003. To many custom actions are still required to get a service to install - and be able gracefully potential failure scenarios.

re: MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta

jason_ruz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:00:03 GMT

MSI 5.0 still stops working when a zero kb file called "C:\Windows\system32\msiexec" (no extension) gets created -- i.e. you have both these files:

C:\Windows\System32\msiexec

C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe

The Windows Installer service fails to start and you get a "Windows Installer Service could not be accessed" error. This problem would be so easy to fix for you guys; just add .exe to the path you use to start the Windows Installer service -- i.e.

C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe /V

instead of

C:\Windows\system32\msiexec /v

So what are you guys waiting for?

re: MSI 5.0 in Windows 7 Beta

Windows Installer Team — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:58:02 GMT

Dear jason_ruz,

You will be happy to learn that this issue has been fixed for Windows 7 RC. So now if there is a situation where a dummy msiexec gets created under %windir%\system32, the windows installer service would not be affected. Thank you for your comment.