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MSI is a Windows Installer package. It contains all of the components necessary to install a particular software package along with a machine-readable description of how the package should be installed.

MSI is a Windows Installer package. It contains all of the components necessary to install a particular software package along with a machine-readable description of how the package should be installed.

Questions regarding MSI desktop motherboards usually fit better on Super User rather than Server Fault.

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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 temporary folder for the files being extracted by…
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MSI Install over network with Admin Rights

I have been asked to install software.msi over a network to a group of users as they logon. My issue is that they also need admin rights to install this software. I have tried using runas command but it askes the user to input a password. I have…
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Preparing computers for remote MSI installation in NT4 domain

We recently purchased EMCO Remote Installer to deploy MSI packages we're creating. We are still (unfortunately) in an NT4 domain, and when I try to deploy a package using domain's administrator credentials I'm getting "access denied". Under the…
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msi Radio button text is not showing completely, how to fix that?

Radio button text is not showing completely.In the final install screen it is showing with characters truncated. If you observe, the last words are truncated as in below screen. But in the dialogs section of installshield, it is showing…
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How to add values to ansible-playbook instead of overwrite it?

As per today, I have the following role, this role simulate a basic installation of the product: - name: Install Server.msi primary_appserver ansible.windows.win_package: path: C:\product.msi log_path: C:\InstallProduct.log arguments: …
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How to identify which MSI installation is in progress that throw the error message : "Another program is being installed."

We're building Automation deployment through Ansible that have several .msi to install. And we encountered, rather randomly the following error message during deployment : Another program is being installed. Please wait until that installation is…
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How to update with latest files, msi?

We have created a separate msi to replace a sub folder in the production. If I install only the new msi, the new files are getting installed.But if I install on top of the existing msi installed machine, it is skipping the new files instead of…
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How to replace a complete folder with msp?

We have an msi in which only one folder need to be changed.is there anyway to generate a patch for this?? Installshield it is showing individual components when I checked
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Windows installer package throwing error when I try running it from file server

Right now I am trying to use PDQ deploy to push out an update (20.2.40) for a software called Bluebeam, if you haven't heard of it, it's essentially a PDF editor. I have also tried running this MSI installer without PDQ, when I run it on my computer…
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Installing msi applications silently with arguments using PowerShell script fails

I'm trying to install an msi application silently with a Powershell script with some arguments but it fails. The logs that I get from msiexec is not help full at all. I believe this is a fault in the arguments in my code: $logFile = "test.log" $path…
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Deploy MSI via GPO to specific users "Admin right issue"

I'm trying to deploy an MSI via GPO to specific users (120 users) from different departments and sites, the problem is that they don't have admin rights so the application cannot be installed due to insufficient privileges. Can anyone have an idea…
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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 an OCX to the 32-bit system folder (usually…
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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 machine and also above a specific version…
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What is the difference between .msi file and binary version of apache?

I am new to web programming , Could anyone please explain what the difference between .msi and binary version of apache ? Actually I want to use apache 2.4 I am not sure which version to download and use?
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