I have an application that uses SQLLocalDb that I am deploying via InstallShield Express Spring 2012.
LocalDb requires that the .Net update for KB2544514 be installed. LocalDb is unable to connect to a LocalDb instance without this update.
When I add this exe to InstallShield as a custom action:
An Error 1721 is encountered when NPD40-KB2544514-x86-x64.exe is executed unless the install is run as Administrator.
If the setup that includes NPD40-KB2544514-x86-x64.exe is run as an Administrator, the installation succeeds.
Is there a way to daisy-chain the Microsoft KB update with the install that does not require a reight-click "Run as Administrator". My concern is that instructions "Right click and Run as Administrator" will typically be overlooked by 99% of users and generate a high number of support calls.
You'll have to make a custom prerequisite via the "Install Shield Prerequisite editor" and associate it with your feature.
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I have removed .Net Framework feature from "Server Manager -> Remove Roles and features Wizard".
(This image is from a different server)
Later I noticed that this activity has affected many windows features (Server manager, IIS Manager, Turn on off windows features etc..).
After removed .Net Framework feature I was not able to find the Server Manager application.
I tried answer in this link and able to restore ServerManager.exe but once I try to load the server manager it's giving below error,
I may be able to resolve this if I can re enable .Net frame work feature. But not sure how to do that without using server manager(since I cannot open sever manager).
Appreciate any solutions or suggestions regarding this.
Finally able to re enable .Net feature and access server manager by following below steps,
Open command prompt
Run the command: dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx4ServerFeatures /ALL and press return.
Type PowerShell and press enter.
Run the command: Install-WindowsFeature PowerShellRoot,PowerShell,PowerShell-ISE.
Restart the server.
Credit belongs to this blogger:
https://glennopedia.com/2020/02/14/why-you-shouldnt-remove-net-in-windows-server/
This kind of errors are caused due to lack of .NET framework on your machine or if you installed old version of framework. You need to install an appropriate .NET Framework on your computer.
Updating .NET framework on your computer will solve your problem maximum.
Install it from the Microsoft website.
Run as Administrator , the server manager will open.
Now you can try to add.
Few machines have 'MyApp.exe' installed using ClickOnce. And I have created a new MSI Windows Installer for 'MyApp.exe' using MS Visual Studio 2013 Setup and Deployment. I have a requirement that when my new MSI Installer runs it has to automatically remove/uninstall all previous 'MyApp.exe' (installed using ClickOnce) and install the new exe. Installer has to do it as part of its installation process.
Is this even possible? ClickOnce doesn't make any registry entries, so how can I get the Upgrade codes/Product codes which I can feed to Windows Installed 'Upgrade Paths' to upgrade it. ClickOnce is per user installation, but Windows Installer is not.
Is it even possible for Windows Installer to uninstall ClickOnce installed application ?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
ClickOnce is a per-user deployment experience and MSI is usually a per-machine experience. Per machine can't clean up other people's profiles. The only way I know is to do an active setup trick to run a program for each user who logs on and then execute a script to do cleanup. Either that or put first-run code in the applicaton itself to do the same.
Many articles state that LocalDb is easy to install and some state that SQL Express is not needed to deploy an application that uses LocalDb. However, I have found no reference that tells what binaries should be included in an install for an application that uses LocalDb.
Do I simply need to add the contents of "\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\LocalDb\Binn" to the application folder?
Is there a reference on this?
You should still use LocalDB MSI to install it. It is just that LocalDB MSI is very simple, has no prerequisites on supported platforms, installs fast and asks you no questions.
Also, if your application uses ClickOnce installation, and you are using Visual Studio 2012, you can just mark LocalDB as chained dependency in your Deployment Wizard.
Otherwise you need to make sure your installer installs LocalDB MSI.
Can you please enlighten me on my task?
My task is to create a nightly builds of MSI (done in WiX) and install it to our web server using powershell.
TFSBuild server build an MSI
Run Powershell to uninstall and install the newly build MSI.
Run Powershell to Start the windows service.
The WiX MSI contains WindowsService and a Web Application.
Below are list of what i have done so far:
Solution.sln : Configuration Manager and "x86|debug" (check all the files that needs to be built '.wixproj' already checked)
Created a build definition and set "x86|debug" for configurations to build and set projects to build is my solution file.
but after the build has completed, there is no MSI files on the binaries build folder on the build server. :(
Thanks in advance.
Few pointers:
Have you installed Wix on the buildserver?
Which version of Team Build are you using? 2010 has the preference here as the tooling has progressed a lot since 2008.
Did you configure to run msbuild in auto or x86 mode (auto can result in 64-bit which has some issues with the latest stable version of wix) link link
Is your build agent running on a 64 bit server? If so, you either need to run the build agent under an administrative account or do some mucking around in the registry to fix issues with Wix. link
To install the build using Powershell, I personally prefer TFSDeployer, which can monitor your build output and trigger powershell scripts based on the build outcome. It takes away the deployment responsibility from the build server and saves a lot of headaches around security and account configurations.
For .net 3.5 SP1, Microsoft have the new client profile which installs only a subset of .net 3.5 SP1 on to Windows XP user's machines.
I'm aware of how to make my assemblies client-profile ready. And I've read the articles on how to implement an installer for ClickOnce or MSI.
But I've been using Inno Setup for my project so far and I'd like to continue to use it (as an Express user, I can't easily make MSIs), I need to know how to use the client-profile installer in a custom environment.
There is an article on a Deployment.xml schema, but no indication of how to write one, package it or anything else. Can someone explain this process? Finding the articles I linked to alone was a painful search experience.
Microsoft has now shipped the Client Profile Configuration Designer (Beta).
This designer lets you edit the XML files with some limitations, this isn't a 'Google beta' by any means.
Information and download
Can you clarify: Are you trying to write an installer for your app, which depends on the Client-Profile, or are you trying to write a custom installer for the client-profile?
I haven't used it personally, but if it's anything like the dotnetfx 1 and 2 msi's, you basically have to just invoke it's executable yourself from your own .exe file, or from an Msi BEFORE the InstallExecuteSequence starts up - you can't "embed" those in your own app, MS go out of their way to tell you not to do that due to suckage of MSI.
Client profile works only on clean XP. If your user as .Net 1 or 2 installed, client profile wont install...
You have an offline version (integrating Full .Net3.5 Install in case Client Wont install) 200 to 300Mo don't remember
Online version will get required files.
You can call a silent install from the first steps of your install.