Software Deployment

By using what you suggested, resolved the problem.

But as the entries are in HKCU, when i try to login as another user on the same machine, these HKCU entries are not getting created for another profile when I try to launch the application through shortcut.

When I opened the .MSI and checked it, the shortcut's component has no key path. So I tried to create a transform for this, and moved the shortcut to the component where the target .exe is located. But even after that, the application doesn't bring back the HKCU entries for the other users.

I made sure that the component where the registries reside is also having the key path.

Any suggestions how to bring back the HKCU entries when the shortcuts are launched? Coz, this vendor MSI's shortcuts are not handled properly.

Thanks,
John.

First of all make sure that the shortcut in the vendor MSI is advertised, and make a seperate component that contains the reg values, make sure you set one value as key path. Since it's possible the values actually already exist but have different contents, you might want to add a control value of your own and make this the keypath... something along the lines of LicenseSet = 1

This way launching the app via the shortcut should trigger a repair of the component if the keys are missing.

If you don't want to work with advertised shortcuts I personally find the cleanest solution to triggering repairs to be ActiveSetup. You can find a good explanation of it here. Basically it triggers a comand for every user that logs in for the first time after the installation

Just trigger the msi's repair function in the stubpath command, something along the lines of msiexec.exe /fu <productcode> /qn

VBScript custom action to go to the network drive and copy the file to the correct location on the PC.

You will need to wrap error checking around the network copy incase the drive doesnt exsit.

Alternativly put the file inside the MSI, via a transform.

Having re-read your post, are you saying that when you load the app it prompts for a license file? If so procmon that registration process to find the keys that make this work and include them inside your transform?

P

I appreciate your quick response...

Can you tell me in detail as how to include that file via transform and the file is actually share from network and needs to be mapped and then browsed manually for the registration. If the file is copied or moved it throws an error stating File has been moved.

this should do the trick with a slight tweak.

http://johnmcfadyen.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9DD01136FC094724!197.entry

Hello,

Not sure if you have resolved this for yourself or not, but I have just gone through the same thing. The solution I found is making a transform (best practices) or editing the vendor MSI to import the following .reg file.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sparx Systems\EA400\EA\OPTIONS]
"SharedKeyFolder"="Path to license key"
"AutoCheckoutSharedKeyArray"=hex:02


The path to the license key can be either a mapped drive or full UNC path.