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CviUser2003
Aug 11, 2008, 10:40:09 PM8/11/08
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When I created a CVI installer using the following commands:
CVI 6.0 - Build menu - Create Distribution Kit
CVI 8.5.1 - Build menu - Distributions - Build Active
It creates the SETUP.EXE, MSI file, and other associated installer files that loads the appropriate version of CVI's RTE, and my *.EXE, *.UIR, *.DLL, and config files.
When I run SETUP.EXE on a system where I do not have ADMIN priviledges, I could not run it. Even if I.T. adds me to the "Power Users" group, I still could not install it. The installer seems to require me to be in the "Administrators" group.
Is it possible to change the installer so it only requires "Power User" for installation?
Is there a setting that I am missing or incorrectly set?
Thanks.
CVI 6.0 - Build menu - Create Distribution Kit
CVI 8.5.1 - Build menu - Distributions - Build Active
It creates the SETUP.EXE, MSI file, and other associated installer files that loads the appropriate version of CVI's RTE, and my *.EXE, *.UIR, *.DLL, and config files.
When I run SETUP.EXE on a system where I do not have ADMIN priviledges, I could not run it. Even if I.T. adds me to the "Power Users" group, I still could not install it. The installer seems to require me to be in the "Administrators" group.
Is it possible to change the installer so it only requires "Power User" for installation?
Is there a setting that I am missing or incorrectly set?
Thanks.
Jonathan N
Aug 12, 2008, 9:40:23 AM8/12/08
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Hi CviUser2003,Unfortunately every distribution you build with
CVI 8.0 and later will require administrator privileges to install. The new
framework introduced in CVI 8.0 always writes registry keys to HKLM
during installation, and this means administrator privileges. The <a href="http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/7DB0F74A94EBCAF78625701A0074FC39?OpenDocument" target="_blank">Permissions Needed When Installing LabWindows/CVI Distribution Kits</a> describes the behavior. I know it's not
what you wanted, but is it not possible to have an admin perform the
installation? The only other option would be to manually move over the underlying CVI RTE files to the target system. See this <a href="http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=180&message.id=37092&requireLogin=False" target="_blank">post</a> for more information. Best Regards,
CVI 8.0 and later will require administrator privileges to install. The new
framework introduced in CVI 8.0 always writes registry keys to HKLM
during installation, and this means administrator privileges. The <a href="http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/7DB0F74A94EBCAF78625701A0074FC39?OpenDocument" target="_blank">Permissions Needed When Installing LabWindows/CVI Distribution Kits</a> describes the behavior. I know it's not
what you wanted, but is it not possible to have an admin perform the
installation? The only other option would be to manually move over the underlying CVI RTE files to the target system. See this <a href="http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=180&message.id=37092&requireLogin=False" target="_blank">post</a> for more information. Best Regards,
CviUser2003
Aug 12, 2008, 3:40:13 PM8/12/08
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Unfortunately, I do not have ADMIN priviledges in our closed system. I.T. folks say I can have "Power User" access, which they say normally allows installers to work, but not in this case. I.T. is not always available to install the software for us, whenever we modify our code, and we cannot afford an IDE in all stations I distribute my application to.
It looks like I have to stop using the installer for interim (engineering) builds and have I.T. admin's run the installer once (loading the RTE and modifying the HKLM), and we will manually overwrite our DLL's and EXE's to update the version of our code only.
It looks like I have to stop using the installer for interim (engineering) builds and have I.T. admin's run the installer once (loading the RTE and modifying the HKLM), and we will manually overwrite our DLL's and EXE's to update the version of our code only.
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