I am creating a Installscript MSI project using Installshield 2014 profession edition.
I want to check following things in installshield project as pre-requisites before continuing installtion:
OS either windows 7 & above OR Windows 2008 R2 & above
Core i3 processor
Minimum free disk space 10gb
ODAC 11g - should be checked for existence and should not be forced to install
IIS 7.5 & above
I tried to set conditions for OS, RAM in 'Install conditions' from General section.
There, I cannot set other conditions.
Additionally I want to write a log file which will contain information about what prerequisites are not met during installation.
Could anyone please suggest how this could be done using Installscript?
Any help is really appreciable.
Thanks in advance.
I got solution for checking OS, minimum disk space and IIS version.
To check OS version:
In Installscript, I used SYSINFO structure to check value for member nISOSL. Its value indicates the operating system of the target machine.
To check free disk space:
I used following couple of statements to get free hard disk space.
nvHDDFreeSpace = GetDiskSpaceEx("C:", GBYTES);
NumToStr(szMsg, nvHDDFreeSpace);
To find IIS version:
Following registry path can be visited to get IIS major and minor versions:
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters
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After successfully testing my MVC4 programs using this environment
I tried to publish it to 64-bit Windows 2008 Server with the IIS that disallows 32 bit apps, then I start getting stuck with the exception : the referenced dll's dependencies cannot be found!
I tried every advice the internet can give me including modifying web.config to reflect their dlls' on deploy-to server win 2008 using global cache cmd's on the prompt!
Yet nothing works. 32-bit is working but 64-bit is flat broke!
First, I stopped messing around the web.config. Then, I re-installed Oracle 11g 64 on my Windows 2008 server. Finally I placed ODAC on top of 11gx64's installation. The key to success is locating the correct ODAC to match the version of Oracle you have on your system.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/windows/downloads/index-090165.html
To VERIFY you have the right ODAC installed correctly over oracle 11 g you have to look into [asp.net] and [ODP.net] directories to make sure they BOTH have 2.x's and 4's dirs in each bin and their presence in global cache 64.
Ater solving the ODAC installation problem, I start experimenting with oracle client dll's. I copied the Oracle.DataAccess.dll(64-bit) from bin [2.x] to my app's compiled bin only to watch my program still crashed with the same complaint that it cannot find the dependent DLL's. Then I copied the Oracle.DataAccess.dll from bin [4], then everything WORKS fine!!
Now the remaining question is why 4.112.4 not found in register cache GAC_64 is working great but the set of dll's registered in GAC_64 broke the program? Can't help not being confused.
See the resulting view of the working dlls ==>
If you acquire all those screens I show in this case, your MVC4 apps should fly high with Oracle 11 g 64-bit client! Good luck! I'll share mine with you!
I have a server that I am working on that is using Windows 2008 SP2 Enterprise and I have found that the installed version of Robocopy is missing the MT (multithread) switch.
Since I'm working with enterprise hardware, having multiple threads can really help my performance so I'd prefer not to have to remove the switch from the copy operation that I am attempting.
What I don't understand is why the installed version is missing this switch since this is a 2008 windows instance. Was the MT switch introduced in 2008R2?
Is there any way I can safely update this version of robocopy (such as copying the executable from one of my other environments)?
To provide just a little background for contextual purposes this command is being issued as part of an automated backup process developed in SSIS. This process executes normally in other environments, so I'm trying to establish a means of upgrading all the older versions with a more recent version of robocopy to maintain functionality. Otherwise I will have to contextually disable the inclusion of the switch which is a pain.
According to the documentation on Technet, the /MT parameter applies to Server 2008 R2 but not Server 2008. I'm not sure if this is due to just the version of the robocopy executable or some other restriction.
What is the File Version of your robocopy.exe, as shown in the file properties?
You might try to pull the newest version of Robocopy (6.1.7601) out of KB2639043 and see if that works for you. Though, information I found on this thread suggests that newer versions of Robocopy don't work at all on Server 2008.
First of all sorry if this is a repost or is found to be duplicate.
I'm about to install sharepoint 2010 in my laptop for development. I'm using a laptop with win 7 64-bit with 8GB RAM, with vs 2010 installed.
I'm having SP2010 with SP1 standard license.
Have went to lot of pre-requisite advisory pages but haven't got a satisfactory/complete answer and hence decided to pen down my doubts here.
Below are my queries
Can i start by auto-running the CD (sorry if it sounds a lot stupid. kindly take note that i'm at beginning stage of SP2010 with VS programming background).
Can i connect to sql server 2005 (32-bit) from sp2010 after installation for programming. Is it possible technically.
Should i need to install sql 2005/2008 (64-bit) before installing SP2010 or can i install it after completing installation of SP2010.
PLEASE provide pointers if any so that i can have a hiccup free, successful installation of sp2010.
Edit:
Have downloaded a bunch of files from the below url
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27417
Can anyone advise which virtual machine i should use to run the vhd image for sp2010
Thanks :)
Installing on Windows 7 is not recommended and tends to run into some incompatibilities. Can you use a virtual machine? Here is a link which is useful for Win 7 installation.
Answering your questions:
You can install from the DVD or a mounted Image.
You can use SQL 2005 but only 64Bit.
You should install SQL server before installing SharePoint so it will be more automated
I de-installed SQL server 2005 express some time ago when I installed SQL server 2008 express.
Doing that install required windows installer 4.5.
Now I discover a reason to have SQL server 2005 express again.
(to reconnect to the outlook Business Contact Manager which requres it to connect to the default MSSQL\MSSMLBIZ database)
However, when I install any version of SQL server 2005, it fails for all the important things, like the database engine, with the message that I should upgrade my windows installer to a newer version.
I'm interpreting this as the SQL 2005 installer is experiencing failure and is presuming it is because the installer version is incorrect, and presuming the version is too previous.
But I suspect the version is too subsequent.
Any way out of this?
The error messages are produced by MSI-based installers are notoriously misleading (most installers silently swallow a lot of error conditions and present one single generic error message.) The best thing you could do is sift through the log files created by the SQL Server 2005 installer (IIRC, they're dumped into the %TMP% directory.) That will certainly provide more information.
You could try to uninstall the KB942288 package (Add/Remove Programs, make sure the Show updates checkbox is checked, and locate the corresponding entry.) Here's the corresponding Microsoft KB article as well. No guarantees as to what this will do to your system though, especially since you've certainly performed a lot of install actions since you installed 4.5.
You could also try one or more of the generic MSI debugging techniques described in KB 555175.
I have been running SQL Server 2005 Express Management Studio ("SSMSE"), and I now have a need to install the full version of Management Studio ("SSMS"). This is a known hassle, but I've not found a comprehensive way to carry it out.
At first, I uninstalled SSMSE, and then ran SqlRun_Tools.msi to install the toolset. I got this error message:
A component that you have specified in the ADD_LOCAL property is already
installed. To upgrade the existing component, refer to the template.ini
and set the UPGRADE property to the name of the component.
I had no idea what template.ini was. So I looked around, and decided to uninstall the rest of the minimal installation of SQL Server 2005 Express on my computer by following Microsoft's advice in KB 909967, "How to uninstall an instance of SQL Server 2005 manually." That bit was very successful.
But when I attempted to run SqlRun_Tools.msi again, I faced this mess when the installer was "Preparing Installation Wizard":
The setup has encountered an unexpected error in datastore. The action
is SetDialogs. The error is : Source File Name:
...\datastorecachexmlschema.cpp
**** Compiler Timestamp: Fri Jul 29 01:13:50 2005
**** Function Name: DataStoreCacheXMLSchema::initScopeRecord*****Sour...
(but replace the asterisks with box chars, which were probably CR-LF's in the original message)
This is very frustrating. Does anybody have any advice for installing the full version of SSMS over top of SSMSE? Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!
I have also installed SQL Management Studio before just using the SqlRun_Tools.msi package without any problems but I think if you have previously had any other SQL Server 2005 components installed then you will need to install the Setup Support Files first as this is probably what sets up the component installation sequence. This can be done either by installing from the SQL Server installation media or by running the sqlsupport.msi file as described in the Microsoft KB article.
I resolve this problem
Steps
Go to Add\remove program
unstall SQL server browser
Install support files from CD
Install SQL_Tools.MSI
Well, I roughly found out what the problem was, based on a somewhat cryptic resolution mentioned across a few different forums. This solution suggested that I needed to install Setup Support Files. Maybe it was reinstall, since I removed something with the same name when uninstalling SQL2K5 Express. I'm not sure if they were the same files, between the full version and the Express Edition.
I had tried reinstalling SQLXML4, the Native Client, and MSXML6 just to see if I could get beyond the error involving datastorecachexmlschema.cpp, and each time, I got the same error again. But I tried the technique mentioned in the above link, and it worked perfectly.
Basically, you insert the CD and run just the first part of the installation process, which installs the installation tools, including Setup Support Files. Then you cancel the rest of the installation process, and run SqlRun_Tools.msi instead.
I got great results when upgrading 2008 express to 2008 developer by (running setup) first going to Maintenance->Upgrade Edition, and then (since Management Tools etc was still "express" and I mainly needed the Sql Profiler) I also did a complete "new" installation (Installation->"New installation or add features.."), selecting the existing instance and then selecting all features.
No uninstall or command line necessary.
Behaved the same afterwards, just with new features.