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The corporate benefits of using MSI files
What are the advantages of using .msi files over regular setup.exe files?
I have the impression that deployment is easier on machines where users have few permissions, but not sure about the details....
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Find GUID of MSI Package
How can I find the GUID of an MSI package? I would like to script the removal of a program on a large number of desktops by using:
msiexec.exe /x ProductCode
Any reason why this would not work ...
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How can I speed up MSI package install and uninstall?
When installing and uninstalling Windows Installer packages, or MSI files as they are called, the progress of the installation appears signifiantly slower than with other installation packages.
Why ...
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How do I determine what the Windows Installer (msiexec) is doing?
After rolling out a new software package, I'm seeing high CPU usage on machines. One process that seems to be really active is msiexec, which really shouldn't be running. I'm watching it in process ...
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Roll back suspended .MSI install from command-line
We deployed a Java installer to a large number of machines, and it froze up on about half of them. Now, subsequent deployments are failing because of the following message:
User 'SYSTEM' has ...
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I want to install an MSI twice
I have a peculiar wish to install an msi twice on a machine.
The purpose of the double install is to first install under the pre-production folder, run the deployment in a safe environment prior to ...
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How can I eliminate the huge, cached MSI files in C:\Windows\Installer?
The size of the MSI cache folder (C:\Windows\Installer) has grown substantially, and is now taking up way too much disk space on my (domain) computers. Can this folder be eliminated or shrunk?
Same ...
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What, exactly, is the SCCM client doing when it installs an .msi for a system?
I've been working with a particular .msi (AppleApplicationSupport.msi). I have installed it two different ways which I thought would be equivalent. However the results differ as follows.
PSEXEC -i -...
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Unable to launch MSI installers off NFS share
I have a Linux server where I've configured a read only NFS share. The client I'm currently working on is a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that has the NFS features installed. I'm able to open and ...
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What could be causing MsiInstaller to continuously reconfigure applications(EventID 1035)?
I have a brand-new machine that we just installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise on about two months ago. In the event log, I am seeing thousands of EventID 1035 logged. This is MsiInstaller ...
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Is it possible to disable msiexec help GUI?
I'm automating unattended retrieval & installation of specified .msi packages with a powershell script but if the command is invoked with syntax errors the msiexec will wait indefinitely for an OK ...
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What happens when you uninstall a per-user installation?
What happens if an MSI installation is set to install as per-user, and 3 different users log on and each install the app? Will Windows Installer recognise that the same MSI has already been installed ...
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Windows Installer folders registry key value 1
I'm looking for information about the reg folder "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders"
I couldn't find any information on MSDN or other sites.
I see that ...
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Remote installing programs by scripts or batch files
Firstly, I can't use Group Policy as our team doesn't manage that. The company is a massive FTSE company with a team for every aspect of IT you can think of.
Our team needs a way of installing ...
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Troubleshoot msiexec removing dotnet Core
I am attempting to upgrade ASP.NET Core from 2.0.3 to 2.1.5 on a group of servers. I am using a Powershell script that looks something like this:
$software = Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...
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How can I compare the content of two (or more) MSI files?
How can I do a "content compare" of two (or more) MSI files and see what is actually different inside the files - instead of doing a useless binary compare? (which obviously only tells me if I am ...
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How can I list all installed applications including those installed in per-user context?
I can run wmic product to get a list of all installed software. This command will list any software installed in the system context, or per-user context for the logged in user. However, this command ...
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What is the preferred way to distribute a small update to software?
If a product simply requires a replacement of the .EXE file, what would be the expected way to deliver this update to multiple workstations in a large enterprise?
Is an .MSP file preferred?
Or ...
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Windows Installer: The system cannot open the device or file specified
I downloaded as Administrator in Chrome an installer .msi file [Citrix XenCenter Management; so it's not an exotic program] on a Windows Server 2012 R2 into a drive F: which is hosted on the SBS and ...
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App MSI install hangs up on newly imaged PCs (Win10) [closed]
I'm working on an issue that got kicked up to me from Tier 1. I have a proprietary app that's built into an MSI for deployment with a VBscript. I didn't do the build and I don't have access to the ...
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Installing MSI to ASP.NET Core App Service Windows Container
I'm trying to use Visual Studio 2019 to develop a ASP.NET Core 3.1 app running in Docker for Windows. I'm having a few problems with this. I need to host an endpoint to start and stop a service and ...
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Windows Installer cannot execute EXE install files
When I run the msiexec.exe with an msi file, it runs perfectly.
The problem is that many install files are not msi's but exe's.
My question is: How can I run an exe file with the msiexec.exe command?
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Deploying Applications via MDT Fails
I'm setting up a test lab for using MDT at our organization and I've been having trouble getting the installs to run properly. So far I only have an older copy (5.2) of RealVNC working.
My ...
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How to allow program updates without prompting UAC?
We have about 15-20 users who have this software installed.
We have UAC enabled through GPO as you should, which means the software prompts for admin approval if a standard user trys to install it. ...
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How can I determine what causes repeated Windows Installer self-repair?
The Windows Installer Service keeps triggering a repair operation (self-repair) of a package installed on my desktop. I am unable to find the cause and resolve the problem permanently.
How do I find ...
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specify temp folder for msi extracted files used for installation
I was recently installing Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 to create my build server on a VM (Windows 2003 R2 Std), I was wondering that it would be nice to specify the ...
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GPO MSI Install - Error 1305.Error reading from file
Windows Server 2016
Adobe Reader DC msi
Hi
I'm trying to install Adobe Reader remotely and silently to a set of PCs in a Windows Domain.
I have setup a network share, ABC-Deploy$, containing the ...
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how to fix dll registration error with msi?
there is a setup file created by installshield, so used silent switch and deployed the application.
newer version of same exe is available now, when deployed with silent switch, during upgrade it is ...
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Install Multiple Instances of Windows Service using WiX Toolset
I want to install an msi multiple times on a machine. The purpose of this is to install multiple instances of a service with different service names.
I am able to install one service with a user ...
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Java group policy install succeeds but not fully installing
I am attempting to deploy java over group policy and am running into a few issues. Sometimes when the msi installs, the installer reports that it succeeded in the event viewer, but when I go to the ...
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How to check if a Product is installed from launch condition of msi?
We are creating an msi, which is a sidecar/config for our main product ,an installshied exe(embedded an msi inside).
This new msi should be installed only when the main msi is already installed on the ...
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MSI on Windows 10 won't register OCX (even when run as admin)
Got an MSI built using a Visual Studio Installer project. The resulting MSI was developed on Windows 7 some years back, and works fine there.
There is a merge module (MSM) that is supposed to dump ...
