WIX - Reference a heat generated file ID for use in Custom Action - powershell

New to Wix, but trying to learn!
I'm using heat to generate a 'directory.wxs' file that contains all of the files I need for my application. One of these files is a Powershell script that I need to run as a custom action. I'm trying to use the -suid flag so the File Id is consistent across runs. I don't like this solution as I may be in a bad way if I ever have two files with the same name... suggestions welcome on that one.
In the customaction.wxs file, I'm trying to use what is generated, "install-service-filebeat.ps1" as my Property value in my custom action. I have looked at a quite a few examples / problems similar to this across here and other sites. I may just be an idiot and missing something, but was wondering if my issue is with referencing the ID from my directory.wxs file, or if it elsewhere in my syntax.
Below are my scripts, I included them at the end as they are long.
Thanks in advance!
My PS script:
## Powershell Script to Create MSI ##
## Variables ##
# WIX Source Dir #
$WIX_DIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.11\bin"
# Source Dir for files to be enumerated into MSI #
$SRC_DIR="C:\application-directory"
# Name of our Application #
$APP_NAME="Filebeat"
# Where to stage the various .wxs files #
$STG_DIR="C:\wix-project\${APP_NAME}\stage"
# Where to deliver the Final Product #
$TGT_DIR="C:\wix-project\${APP_NAME}\output"
## Create MSI ##
# Compile the source files into a Fragment to be referenced by main builder Product.wxs #
& ${WIX_DIR}\heat.exe dir $SRC_DIR -srd -dr INSTALLDIR -cg MainComponentGroup -out ${STG_DIR}\directory.wxs -ke -sfrag -gg -ssuid -var var.SourceDir -sreg -scom
# Convert the .wxs files into .wxobj for consumption by light.exe #
& ${WIX_DIR}\candle.exe -dSourceDir="${SRC_DIR}" ${STG_DIR}\*.wxs -o ${STG_DIR}\ -ext WixUtilExtension -arch x64
# Create the final MSI package --CURRENTLY REFERENCING THE FILES EXPLICITY. NEED TO FIND WAY TO WILDCARD! #
& ${WIX_DIR}\light.exe -o ${TGT_DIR}\${APP_NAME}_installer.msi ${STG_DIR}\customaction.wixobj ${STG_DIR}\directory.wixobj ${STG_DIR}\product.wixobj -cultures:en-US -ext WixUIExtension.dll -ext WiXUtilExtension.dll
This generates my files just fine, and compiles them. The contents of my customaction.wxs:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<Wix xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi'>
<Fragment>
<!--Define the CustomAction for running the PowerShell script-->
<CustomAction Id="RunPowerShellScript_set"
Property="install_service.ps1"
Value=""[\[]POWERSHELLEXE[\]]" -Version 2.0 -NoProfile -NonInteractive -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "&'4(var.SourceDir)\[\[]#install_service.ps1[\]]'; exit $$($Error.Count)"" />
<CustomAction Id="RunPowerShellScript"
BinaryKey="WixCA"
DllEntry="CAQuietExec"
Execute="deferred"
Return="check"
Impersonate="yes" />
<!-- Ensure PowerShell is installed and obtain the PowerShell executable location -->
<Property Id="POWERSHELLEXE">
<RegistrySearch Id="POWERSHELLEXE"
Type="raw"
Root="HKLM"
Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds\Microsoft.PowerShell"
Name="Path" />
</Property>
<Condition Message="This application requires Windows PowerShell.">
<![CDATA[Installed OR POWERSHELLEXE]]>
</Condition>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
And the relevant portion of my product.wxs:
<!-- Execute Custom Action -->
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="RunPowerShellScript_set" After="InstallFiles" />
<Custom Action="RunPowerShellScript" After="InstallFiles">
<![CDATA[NOT Installed]]>
</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>

I think that your Property="install_service.ps1" is incorrect. Try to follow the pattern from my blog post. I hope it helps you, just tested my script again and it works. Have a nice day!

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MSI (s) (10:F8) [09:54:54:515]: Invoking remote custom action.
DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSI80E7.tmp, Entrypoint: WixQuietExec64
WixQuietExec64: Error 0x80070001: Command line returned an error.
WixQuietExec64: Error 0x80070001: QuietExec64 Failed
WixQuietExec64: Error 0x80070001: Failed in ExecCommon method
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(note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
On the destination machines is PowerShell 3 installed. The script also uses PowerShell 3 modules.
I have included the option -InputFormat None but this makes no difference for PowerShell 3.
Any thoughts on this issue?
Try to run the script stand alone, in order to exclude command errors.
I have encountered same problem and what solved it was the command length (in your situation is RunPSscriptCommand's value), I have decreased the length to be less than 255 characters.
You can check your powershell version automatically using WixPSExtension.dll
<PropertyRef Id="POWERSHELLVERSION" />
<Condition Message="You must have PowerShell 1.0 or higher.">
<![CDATA[Installed OR POWERSHELLVERSION >= "1.0"]]>
</Condition>
I hope it will help.

WiX Bootstrapper: How do I set burn variables from the command line?

Using WiX 3.7 and .NET 4.0.
How does one set burn variables when running a WiX bootstrapper EXE from the command line?
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<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"
xmlns:bal="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/BalExtension">
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<Variable Name="MyBurnVariable2" bal:Overridable="yes" Type="numeric" Value="0" />
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SourceFile="first.msi"
InstallCondition="MyBurnVariable1 = 1" />
<MsiPackage Id="MySecondMsiPackage"
SourceFile="second.msi">
<MsiProperty Name="MY_PROPERTY" Value="[MyBurnVariable2]" />
</MsiPackage>
</Chain>
</Bundle>
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I have found a couple of examples showing how to run a PowerShell script from WiX but have not been successful running either of them. So, I'd like to post what I have with the hope that someone can point out what I am doing wrong.
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<DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLFOLDER">
<Component Id="cmp_ShutdownIExplore" Guid="{4AFAACBC-97BB-416f-9946-68E2A795EA20}" KeyPath="yes">
<File Id="ShutdownIExplore" Name="ShutdownIExplore.ps1" Source="$(var.ProjectDir)Source\PowerShell\ShutdownIExplore.ps1" Vital="yes" />
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<Fragment>
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<RegistrySearch Id="POWERSHELLEXE"
Type="raw"
Root="HKLM"
Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds\Microsoft.PowerShell"
Name="Path" />
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<Condition Message="This application requires Windows PowerShell.">
<![CDATA[Installed OR POWERSHELLEXE]]>
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MSI (s) (DC:F8) [11:21:46:424]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=RunPowerShellScript,,)
Action 11:21:46: RunPowerShellScript.
MSI (s) (DC:F8) [11:21:46:425]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=RunPowerShellScript,ActionType=1025,Source=BinaryData,Target=CAQuietExec,)
MSI (s) (DC:9C) [11:21:46:459]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSI8228.tmp, Entrypoint: CAQuietExec
CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070057: failed to get command line data
CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070057: failed to get Command Line
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Action ended 11:21:46: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
I am not at all clear what this error is trying to say. Are my internal references bad? Is the command to execute the script bad? Something else?
Any help is most appreciated and thanks in advance.
Looks like you have scheduled the CAQuietExec action as deferred. In this case you have to pass the command line to be executed via a CustomActionData property called QtExecDeferred which is written to the execution script. The deferred action can then access the property from the script.
More details at http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/customactions/qtexec.html
I didn't understand Stephen's answer, however I eventually got it working with the help of this blog post.
Here's a summary of the change I made to Greg's code to get it to work:
I changed CAQuietExec to WixQuietExec (I'm not sure if this was necessary).
In SetProperty I changed the value of the Before attribute from InstallFiles to the Id of the custom action; in Greg's case it would be RunPowerShellScript.
Although unrelated to the question, I ended up needing to change the -Version of powershell to 3.0 from 2.0 to prevent an error when running my script.
Here was my actual working code:
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:iis="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/IIsExtension" xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension">
<Product Id="*" Name="..." Language="1033" Version="..." Manufacturer="..." UpgradeCode="...">
<Property Id="POWERSHELLEXE">
<RegistrySearch Id="POWERSHELLEXE"
Type="raw"
Root="HKLM"
Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds\Microsoft.PowerShell"
Name="Path" />
</Property>
<Condition Message="This application requires Windows PowerShell.">
<![CDATA[Installed OR POWERSHELLEXE]]>
</Condition>
<SetProperty Id="InstallMongoDB"
Before ="InstallMongoDB"
Sequence="execute"
Value=""[POWERSHELLEXE]" -Version 3.0 -NoProfile -NonInteractive -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& '[#MONGODB_INSTALL.PS1]' ; exit $$($Error.Count)"" />
<CustomAction Id="InstallMongoDB" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="WixQuietExec" Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="yes" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="InstallMongoDB" Before="InstallFinalize"><![CDATA[NOT Installed]]></Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<Component Id="MONGODB_INSTALL.PS1" Guid="..." DiskId="1">
<File Id="MONGODB_INSTALL.PS1" Name="mongodb-install.ps1" Source="mongodb-install.ps1"/>
</Component>
</Product>
<Fragment>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="APPLICATIONFOLDER" Name="...">
<Directory Id="InstallScripts" Name="InstallScripts">
<Component Id="MONGODB_INSTALL.PS1" Guid="..." DiskId="1">
<File Id="MONGODB_INSTALL.PS1" Name="mongodb-install.ps1" Source="mongodb-install.ps1"/>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
Only the following example helped me
https://github.com/damienbod/WiXPowerShellExample/blob/master/SetupWithPowerShellScripts/Product.wxs
you need to add smth similar into your 'Product.wxs'. the 'Value' property of the first 'CustomAction' contains a ps script (create and run a windows service in my case).
<!-- assign the string (ps command) to RegisterPowerShellProperty -->
<CustomAction Id="RegisterWindowsService"
Property="RegisterPowerShellProperty"
Value=""C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoLogo -NonInteractive -InputFormat None -NoProfile sc.exe create MyService binpath= 'C:\Program Files (x86)\My service\MyService.exe';sc.exe start MyService"
Execute="immediate" />
<!-- Deferred execution of the above script -->
<CustomAction Id="RegisterPowerShellProperty"
BinaryKey="WixCA"
DllEntry="CAQuietExec64"
Execute="deferred"
Return="check"
Impersonate="no" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<!-- On installation we register and start a windows service -->
<Custom Action="RegisterWindowsService" After="CostFinalize">NOT Installed</Custom>
<Custom Action="RegisterPowerShellProperty" After="InstallFiles">NOT Installed</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
you will need to add a reference to 'WixUtilExtension' in order to run the script.

First run notepad with my.cfg and only then start the service

I install along with my application:
1) a service that starts and stops my application as needed
2) a conf file that contains actually the user data and that will be shown to the user to modify as needed (I give the user the chance to change it by running notepad.exe with my conf file during installing)
The problem is that in my code the service I install starts before the user had the chance to modify the conf file. What I would like is:
1) first the user gets the chance to change the conf file (run notepad.exe with the conf file)
2) only afterward start the service
<Component Id="MyService.exe" Guid="GUID">
<File Id="MyService.exe" Source="MyService.exe" Name="MyService.exe" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes" />
<ServiceInstall Id='ServiceInstall' DisplayName='MyService' Name='MyService' ErrorControl='normal' Start='auto' Type='ownProcess' Vital='yes'/>
<ServiceControl Id='ServiceControl' Name='MyService' Start='install' Stop='both' Remove='uninstall'/>
</Component>
<Component Id="my.conf" Guid="" NeverOverwrite="yes">
<File Id="my.cfg" Source="my.cfg_template" Name="my.cfg" KeyPath="yes" />
</Component>
[...]
<Property Id="NOTEPAD">Notepad.exe</Property>
<CustomAction Id="LaunchConfFile" Property="NOTEPAD" ExeCommand="[INSTALLDIR]my.cfg" Return="ignore" Impersonate="no" Execute="deferred"/>
<!--Run only on installs-->
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action='LaunchConfFile' Before='InstallFinalize'>(NOT Installed) AND (NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE)</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
What am I doing wrong in the above code and how could I change it in order to achieve what I need? (first run notepad with my conf file and then start the service).
I would extend the MSI UI to ask for the parts the user needs to modify and then update the text file using XmlFile and XmlConfig elements. Then Windows installer can come by and start the service.