Disable advertised shortcuts?
William Jones
(non-advertised) shortcuts? I know you can set the DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS
property on individual MSI packages, but I'm looking for something like a group
policy setting that would apply globally. I need to disable advertised
shortcuts when the MSI isn't readily available (e.g. when it's bundled inside a
setup.exe bootstrapper).
Christopher Painter
The DisableMSI policy is the closest that I can think of to doing what
you want. ( Well, I suppose MsiZap if you don't want to ever uninstall
the app .. perhaps you reimage the machine instead. )
Instead, consider running the setup.exe and ripping the msi out of the
temp directory that a boostrapper typically creates. Then you can use
a tool like SMS 2003 ( SMS Advanced Client - MSI Source Agent ) to
manage associating the package on a distribution point to the source
location of the install, or write your own custom utility for doing so
( MSISourceList API's )
Phil Wilson
trigger a repair, but they are not. They are other places where an automatic
repair can be triggered.
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William Jones
However, all the applications that are giving me grief are triggering repair
only at launch, based on the advertised shortcut. If I delete the advertised
shortcut and manually create my own standard shortcut, everything works. I'd
like to eliminate this manual process.
I'm sure advertised shortcuts (and automatic repair) are valuable in many
environments, but they add no value and create trouble for me. It's
unfortunate that they can't be globally disabled.
Linda Liu [MSFT]
Thank you for posting here.
It seems that this issue is more related to GPO, and is not a .NET
Framework Development related one. I suggest that you may post this issue
in:
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy
You may have someone who has more experience on GPO to help you.
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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Christopher Painter
MSI's that are compressed within a bootstrapper.
Phil Wilson
file extensions other actions can cause a repair. You're fighting an
in-built design feature of Windows Installer instead of working with it and
having the MSI file available for repair somewhere. If you're seeing a
repair then either the installation is broken or users are removing/altering
files (or you are somewhere with a custom action after files are installed).
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