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This is a continuation of my series on WiX Windows Installers. In this part we talk about making the installer architecture independent.
To be clear: MSI-installers do not support both 32 and 64 bit platforms, but are built for one or the other.
To get around this you can create a “bootstrapper”.
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It’s pretty much impossible to pass a parameter to a msi installer downloaded. There’s the possibility of deploying a web-based click-once application from Visual Studio, but passing arguments to the installer requires the end user to use the IE browser – and who the would want to do that?
The WiX framework is a great and powerful one for creating installers. If you need to pass a parameter to a WiX based msi installer you can use two methods as far as I know. Both are based on the filename the user downloads so there’s no need for per-user compilation or anything like that.
Installing printers for RDP is seldom straight forward, but when it comes to HP super-user-friendly driver installs it’s super interesting.
The only driver available for this one printer I was going to install for a client (HP p1102) was a user friendly and very good looking installation wizard which required the printer to be plugged in. I’m not about to borrow the printer, get it to the datacenter and plug it in..
When you run the installer, the actual printer driver is extracted to a temporary directory. I noticed this using procmon. For this HP driver, the path was: “C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Temp\<RandomName>”. The installer will prompt you to plug in the printer. When you cancel this operation, the temp directory containing the drivers is deleted.
Here’s what you need to do:
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Usually, at least for IIS folks, SSL certificates are requested using the IIS Management Console GUI. In cases where IIS is not installed you may use Certreq, which is – in fact – very easy.Ran into an ugly problem with a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 not booting because of “BOOTMGR is missing”. I’ve tried a great deal, but this solution – involving booting and repairing with a Windows 7 Pro - strangely, worked for me!
Not sure how this happens, but suspect some sort of failure in Windows Update because on the first successful boot an update process was completed.. This might just as well be a coincidence though..
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