Comments on: Everyone or Just Me?

By: Mike Rosenblum

Mike Rosenblum — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:40:37 +0000

Ok, thanks Dennis, I will check it out…

By: Dennis Wallentin

Dennis Wallentin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:58:06 +0000

Hi Guy,

orcmid:
Agreed, would it be possible for You to show us how You solve it with a Windows Installer package, i.e MSI package?

Mike:
For a basic MSI package it’s a global setting.
However, the Orca tool offer a lot of possibilities to customize MSI packages and allows us to have several MSI packages.

To start out download and install Windows Installer 4.5 SDK. It includes a larger helpfile and tools.

Of course, by using dedicated installation tools like Wise gives us a more flexible and powerful platform.

Kind regards,
Dennis

By: Mike Rosenblum

Mike Rosenblum — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:32:31 +0000

Hej Dennis,

Very interesting stuff (as usual from you!).

I have not played with this… Can we assign different InstallAllUsers settings for the various COM components that need installation, or is this a global setting for everything that gets installed by the setup package?

(Sorry if this is a totally noobie question, I have very little experience with deployment.)

By: orcmid

orcmid — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:57:32 +0000

The hard part here is needing to be administrator to do the install but wanting “just me” to be a Limited User account.

My standard install tedium involves elevating my LUA to be an Administrator, do the install there, specify JustMe if I can, ignoring the fact that the account name presented by the installer is incorrect, and then lower the LUA back to actual LUA after doing a run-once to catch all the nasties that still require administrator.

This is not what I would call a wonderful user experience.