Re: [WiX-users] Validation through Visual Studio

[Kathy M. <KM...@pr...>]

Sorry, let me clarify: the Windows 7 machine is my development machine.  I am a local admin, and I can code and compile in .NET, and create and compile WiX projects, etc. from this machine with my company network logon with no other issue.  

I have run installs, including Visual Studio and SQL Server (and Orca).

I couldn't validate through InstallShield after we moved to the Windows 7 machine a while ago, but I thought that was an IS problem, since we are a on an old version (IS 2009).

I don't seem to have a problem running the Windows Installer, just validating.  Orca tells me that "The validation engine could not start".  

When I compile a WiX project, Visual Studio's message is "light.exe(0,0): warning LGHT1105: Validation could not run due to system policy. To eliminate this warning, run the process as admin or suppress ICE validation."

I couldn't find much on the Web on that warning, and what I did find talked about setting the DisableMSI system policy.  However, Microsoft says "On Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, the Windows Installer is enabled for all applications. All install operations are allowed." And my registry has this policy set to 0, with is also "enabled for all applications".


-----Original Message-----
From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@li...] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:00 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Validation through Visual Studio

Can you install an MSI from the same user account/environment? Are you an interactive user or are you running from a service or a scheduled task?
 
Validation uses the same Windows Installer service that installation transactions use.
 
Also I found a bug report that says that an environment block that is too large can cause a failure to connect/start the MSI service, so you may try removing things from your environment variables to bring the overall size down.
 
Blair Murri
 
> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:30:52 -0400
> From: kmm...@gm...
> To: wix...@li...
> Subject: [WiX-users] Validation through Visual Studio
> 
> I'm using VS 2010 SP1 on a Windows 7 machine. When I build in VS, I 
> get a message that I can't validate due to system policy.  I tired to 
> validate through Orca, and got an error that the validation engine couldn't start.
> 
> Does anyone know what system policy has to be changed to let me run 
> validation?  I am a local admin on my machine, and VS shows that it is 
> running as an administrator.
> 
> Thanks!
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