- That might work I'll try that out, thank you...so this is probably a stupid question but what do you mean run it with installshield? I don't have an admin repack tool set or anything I have to code everything by hand.
- You don't need to repack, just create a new mst project, point to the msi and click throu the install then save the .mst and install with msiexec /i installer.msi TRANSFORMS=savedfile.mst /qn
- How do you create an mst project, if I don't have any sort of packing/repackage creation software?
- You probably need to buy installshield to do that unless you find a free tool. It is possible to create mst with Orca (free and part of win 7 SDK) but you cant just 'run' the msi and get a mst there, you need do know what changes you want to do to the msi (and do the changes in orca) and then save as a mst.
Your best bet is to open the msi in Orca or InstEd and look at the properties table. If you find a property where you can set whatever it is you need then add that to the msiexex install string or create a mst as described above.
If this is a one time thing mabye it would be better to pay to have the job done as buying Installshield is rather expensive. (And before you ask, no I can't provide that service but finding somebody that van shouldn't be to hard)- I work with a legacy environment still...
- Enable MSI logging (voicewarmup) and install your setup.exe - the resulting logs in %temp% will show you what parameters were passed to the MSI (look for command line in the logs), create an MST in Orca against the MSI with those properties, install and test.
- I ended up using an alternate method and worked out a SendKeys to do the job.
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