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Hi, I would like to add some kind of completion message to the msi installer but I'm having a hard time figuring it out. Can this be added to the "add-launch-to-msi.js" file? I would really appreciate a solution or if someone can point me to the API I'm supposed to be using for that file. |
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The installer packaging for an msi is driven by Wix and Windows installer. The add-launch-to-msi.js file is a script that tweaks the Windows installer file. Windows installer is a big old complicated thing. I was able to work out the details to create that file by a combination of combing through Reddit and Stack Overflow. Here are a few resources: https://wixtoolset.org/ In theory you can do anything, up to and including crazy stuff like embedding other executables. Certainly a completion notification is possible. IIRC there is a way to tell the msi to run with different display levels - https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/msiexec.html - but I don't recall right off the commands to set it. One complicating factor is that most system administrators doing rollouts specifically don't want any kind of completion dialog, whereas a lot of users like the option. Just depends on your scenario. |
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The installer packaging for an msi is driven by Wix and Windows installer. The add-launch-to-msi.js file is a script that tweaks the Windows installer file. Windows installer is a big old complicated thing. I was able to work out the details to create that file by a combination of combing through Reddit and Stack Overflow.
Here are a few resources:
https://wixtoolset.org/
WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML
In theory you can do anything, up to and including crazy stuff like embedding other executables. Certainly a completion notification is possible.
IIRC there is a way to tell the msi to run with different display levels - https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/ms…