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Posted 1/23/2009 9:41:32 AM
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As a best practice moving into the Vista world we are using more MSI packages with transforms rather than picture taking.

a typical command in the console would then be:
msiexec.exe /i "PATH" TRANSFORMS="PATH" ALLUSERS=2 /qb

to uninstall we would use this in the Uninstall tab:
msiexec.exe /x{GUID} /qn

however to do a reinstall you would need the following commands and from my testing if you reinstall from the console of an MSI these commands dont get implemented just whatever you had in the original command.
msiexec.exe /fa "PATH"

Any way we could change something in the database that says if the task is a command use "This" if reinstall is selected?

Thanks,
Mike 

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Posted 1/23/2009 10:04:12 AM


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Here is a suggested workaround that doesn't involve hacking the database (which we can't endorse). Create a new Command Task for your reinstall MSI command configured as you want it:

msiexec.exe /fa "PATH"

Then assign that task to the computers needing to have the application reinstalled.

We'll enter a feature request that Command Task properties should have another tab for "reinstall." Thanks for the clearly-stated example!



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