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How do I do an All Users Installation with Visual Studio Installer?

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Howard Pinsley

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Sep 30, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/30/99
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I want my installation to affect the All Users folders (for menu entries and
desktop shortcuts) rather than the current, installing user. The Platform
SDK documentation for Windows Installer indicates that this is accomplished
by setting the ALLUSERS property to "2". How do I do this while creating my
installation with Visual Studio Installer?

Jan Boström

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Oct 1, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/1/99
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Howard,

As far as I know you can't do that from within VSI 1.0. It might work if you use Orca to set ALLUSERS to 2 in the "Property" table of a MSI file that VSI 1.0 has created, but I have not tried that.

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Jan Bostrom

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Howard Pinsley

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Howard Pinsley <hpin...@kayescholer.com> wrote in message
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> I want my installation to affect the All Users folders (for menu entries
and
> desktop shortcuts) rather than the current, installing user. The Platform
> SDK documentation for Windows Installer indicates that this is
accomplished
> by setting the ALLUSERS property to "2". How do I do this while creating
my
> installation with Visual Studio Installer?
>
>

So far the only way I know to do this is on the command line. I'd like it,
however, to be the default when the project is built with Visual Studio
installer. So far, no luck in doing that.

Frank Ding

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Oct 27, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/27/99
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Can you add the ALLUSERS property into property table in the .msi file
manually
by modifying .msi file? There is a platform SDK utility called Orca to do
that, but
I have not tried it yet.

Frank.

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Frank Ding

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Oct 27, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/27/99
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I just tested using Orca to add property ALLUSERS=2 in the property
table. It worked as expected on NT.

Cheers!

Frank.

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