Software Deployment

permissions to registries ?
I think when you launch in admin user., the application is creating something in RunTime which the app is unable to do the same if you launch 1st time in Test User.

Ya for testing that i took capture in admin like 1st snap shot before launching the shortcut 2nd one after launching it.
some HKCR got captured i included them in my package as well .....
even then its not working.
as you said to what all registries we can give permissions?
there are many registry entries in my package. (msi)
any idea?

try giving permisions to main registry hive under HKLM\Software\
folder under ProgramFiles

Use ProcMon, It should guide you in the right direction

Suggest - you use File mon / Reg mon under your test a/c to diagnose issue

try giving permisions to main registry hive under HKLM\Software\
folder under ProgramFilesR E A L L Y Bad Idea.

Use ProcMon to find out exactly which resources are being written to and permission those only.

ORIGINAL: VBScab

try giving permisions to main registry hive under HKLM\Software\
folder under ProgramFilesR E A L L Y Bad Idea.

Use ProcMon to find out exactly which resources are being written to and permission those only.




Thats just a try if we can ged rid of the error... It doesnt mean that we havvve to give permissions to those in order to avoid shortcut error... Ian

I tried running processexplorer but its just showing which exe its accessing and running...
does processmon is different from processexplorer and how to figure out which resources is it accessing and writing....
can you please help?

Yes procmon is very different. First hit on any search engine takes you here: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Filter out the process that is your application and then search for some ACCESS DENIED results...

If you are unable to dig out the registries/files using Procmon then try LUA Buglight tool to identify the registries/files to which permssion needs to be given to resolve the issue.

Hi
i need some help like whenever i launch a shortcut its deleting the hkcr keys (actually i gave permissions to that).
again its serching nd trying to create them
can i do something in my package so that whenever those keys gets deleted it should heal nd get back those keys? automatically

ORIGINAL: Yankir

If you are unable to dig out the registries/files using Procmon then try LUA Buglight tool to identify the registries/files to which permssion needs to be given to resolve the issue.


great tool!

thanks man!

Hi Sowjanya,

Import the regsitries in to package and remove delete permissions to test user for these registries..

place an active setup and advertise the shortcut...deletion and healing happens only in admin... any how as the end user m/c's won't be able to delete the keys it should be fine i guess..

and can you name the application for which u r facing the issue..

place an active setup and advertise the shortcut...deletion and healing happens only in admin...I suggest a good read of John McFadyen's Windows live blog on self-healing.

Meanwhile, @ sowjanya_230, is the application deleting those keys or is self-healing? Again, ProcMon will show you.

Hi ,

The applications name is Aspect Unified IP 6.5.2 ....
and when i have run that procmon it showed access denied to 2 of the HKCR\[key-1], HKCR\[key-2]
so i gave full permissions to those keys for user
but as soon as i launch that its deleting them. again somehow its trying to create them but as user doent have any permissions directly to HKCR its again giving error.
dont know excatly whats happening.......

Is you application working fine if you give permissions to HKCR\key1 and key2 ?

Did you capture the application ?

yes its a capture
No ....
even if i give permissions its not.......
it showing access denied for HKCR\clsid\{xxxx} like this kind of key
i gave full control even then showing access denied in procmon

This might not relate to what you are being queried here but an Idea [;)]
< Did you try creating a Response file to make the app install silently.
I believe you will be able to create response files for applications from "Aspect" Vendor >

yes it was a good idea..........but still i dint check whether is this happening in vendor media as well.............
if soo then i think i should trouble shoot this issue in both the cases.......

I think.. the issue you are facing should be resolved by GapCapture. Did you try it?

I will try doing this gap capture

sowjanya,

One question has to be answered in this case: Is a manual installation of the application behaving the same way? (I think you're already looking into that, but I thought I'd ask again)

If this is the case, you have a problem. It would mean the application itself is deleting and rewriting the HKCR keys, and it's not a package issue. No matter what you do with your MSI (self healing/active setup) , it'll be in direct contention with the application's exe, trying to delete/restore the registry keys. Basically it would mean the application is badly designed and, well, you should line up its programmers against a wall and have them shot...

Solution-wise you have 3 options in this case

1) talk to the vendor
2) give users rights on the entire HKCR hive ( not exactly recommended)
3) explain to the business that this app requires local admin rights to run

PJ

Thanks for the suggestions..
coming to answer for your question.
yes i have installed the media exe and in this case also shortcuts are not launching directly
in user account.
but one thing i tried.
i took capture for only that shortcut in admin account (installing the media exe) i found some keys (HKCR) and files(user account appdata folder)
now i installed the media exe again and installed this msi which i have created in the above step.launched shortcut direcly in test user.
now its working for one shortcut. But the other short cut have the same issue......
one more question like if i give permission directly to HKCR, i am not able to log in in to test user account i mean i am not able to view the task bar itself...
any solution for this like how can able to give permissions direclty to HKCR?

Hi sowjanya,
are you aware of the special composition of the HKCR hive?
This hive is a merge of the following two registry locations:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724475%28VS.85%29.aspx

So maybe setting the registry keys in the users hive with the installer, solves your problem.

Regards, Nick

thanks Nick i will try this option.

Hi Sowjanya,

Is that problem resolved !!!!

sreedhar.

Yes...
On one of the Machine which has all the basic applications(i mean generally whatever the machines we use with all the basic applications installed) installed, i installed this application as well along with its pre-reqs..
i dont know how it got automatically launched perfectly.
i mean there is something missing when i installed on a clean machine along with their pre-reqs.
so for another short cut i took the capture for that short cut installing the media.and i included whatever i found their.
some how luckily it worked........................

some how luckily it workedNice to see the scientific approach to packaging in use...