Vista - MSI Custom Action DLL does not have administrator rights

My deployment requires installing a service, among other things, that I do in
a custom action dll. However, it is failing because the dll does not have
administrator rights, even though during Setup the user is prompted for and
gives permission to run as an admin. Why doesn't the dll inherit the rights
of MSI? InstallShield doesn't have this problem.
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Thanks,
Robert Tonsing

It should - if you're prompted for admin. privilages, it should inherit to
the DLL's. Having said that, MSI packages just refuse to install sometimes
if you're not an admin.

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"Robert Tonsing" <RobertTonsing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:62F07143-E4D1-46E6-A53E-35EA2BFA3A60@microsoft.com...
> My deployment requires installing a service, among other things, that I do
> in
> a custom action dll. However, it is failing because the dll does not have
> administrator rights, even though during Setup the user is prompted for
> and
> gives permission to run as an admin. Why doesn't the dll inherit the
> rights
> of MSI? InstallShield doesn't have this problem.
> --
> Thanks,
> Robert Tonsing

Actually, in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._libraries.asp,
it states "The installer runs custom actions with user privileges by default
in order to limit the access of custom actions to the system.".

What I need to find out is how to override or bypass this.
--
Thanks,
Robert Tonsing


"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

> It should - if you're prompted for admin. privilages, it should inherit to
> the DLL's. Having said that, MSI packages just refuse to install sometimes
> if you're not an admin.
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
> --: Original message follows :--
> "Robert Tonsing" <RobertTonsing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:62F07143-E4D1-46E6-A53E-35EA2BFA3A60@microsoft.com...
> > My deployment requires installing a service, among other things, that I do
> > in
> > a custom action dll. However, it is failing because the dll does not have
> > administrator rights, even though during Setup the user is prompted for
> > and
> > gives permission to run as an admin. Why doesn't the dll inherit the
> > rights
> > of MSI? InstallShield doesn't have this problem.
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Robert Tonsing
>
>
>