Do you like or hate self healing?
I recent ran accross a situation where a company is considering to change the way MSIs are packaged. They want to minimize self healing because they are finding out that self healing is causing applications to wreck each other. What is your experience with self healing in the enterprise?
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WayneB
17 years ago
kkaminsk,
Just thinking it through, we are gearing up our packages to be Vista compatable, I believe self healing is going to be an issue in regards to User Account Control (UAC). If you haven't seen the remifications, check out this blog:
http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/
Anyway, we'll run them up on Vista and see what gives. I'm betting a formalised repair functionality is the way to go ie KIS (Keep It Simple) principles and following correct packaging guidelines (isolation, per machine etc).
Cheers
WayneB
Just thinking it through, we are gearing up our packages to be Vista compatable, I believe self healing is going to be an issue in regards to User Account Control (UAC). If you haven't seen the remifications, check out this blog:
http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/
Anyway, we'll run them up on Vista and see what gives. I'm betting a formalised repair functionality is the way to go ie KIS (Keep It Simple) principles and following correct packaging guidelines (isolation, per machine etc).
Cheers
WayneB
Posted by:
revizor
17 years ago
Kkaminsk,
I've seen (and early in my days authored myself) several sloppy packages that kept kicking off self-healing for all wrong reasons.
People hated it, and rightfully so.
Currently I prefer not to resort to self-healing features for HKCU registry keys because of the terminal environment considerations.
Self-healing is a nice feature, though, to ensure package integrity (if done properly).
I think it would make whole a lot of difference if self-healing routines were optimized a little bit better, with users not having to wait for 2-3 minutes for an application to open...
I've seen (and early in my days authored myself) several sloppy packages that kept kicking off self-healing for all wrong reasons.
People hated it, and rightfully so.
Currently I prefer not to resort to self-healing features for HKCU registry keys because of the terminal environment considerations.
Self-healing is a nice feature, though, to ensure package integrity (if done properly).
I think it would make whole a lot of difference if self-healing routines were optimized a little bit better, with users not having to wait for 2-3 minutes for an application to open...
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