Mar 02, 2011 Windows 7 installer package error 2869 while installing an upgraded version. Error 2869 is meaningless - it's. For application deployment. Apr 05, 2009 MSI Install Error 2869. Permissions in order to avoid the installer error 2869. Is still returning an error 2869. It's the same MSI as on.

We have our application Setup program created using Visual Studio 2005 (Setup & Deployment project). Our application setup program runs fine on Windows XP / 2003, however we get the following error message when we try to run the setup program under Vista: The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2869.

According to the Windows Installer documentation, error 2869 means 'The dialog 2 has the error style bit set, but is not an error dialog.' I don't understand what the issue could be here? Do we need to create/build a separate installer for Windows Vista? Snippet from the article above: To specify that a package can only be installed by an administrator into the Public profile, set ALLUSERS='1' or ALLUSERS='2' and set bit 3 of the Word Count Summary property to 0. To specify that a package is a per-user installation that can be installed by a standard user, set ALLUSERS=' or don't define the property, and set bit 3 of the Word Count Summary property to 1.

We use VisualStudio 2005 to create our installer, and I'm guessing that ALLUSERS = ' can be set by specifying InstallAllUsers=False in the Deployment Project Properties window. However, I don't know how to set bit 3 of the Word Count Summary property to 1.

Could someone point me to the correct place where I could set this? Another snippet:. These MSI files fail because the CustomActions attempt to do something that requires administrator privileges.

Usually this can be fixed by merely adding the msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate attribute to the CustomActions. I'm guessing this is an attribute I attach to my CustomActions class, does anyone have a C# sample of what the attribute looks like? I encountered the same problem a while back and for the most part the only information I could find was to run the installer from a command prompt with administrative priveleges or other work arounds. In my case, the MSI package needs to be distributed through SMS. I want a clean and simple solution. The MSI I have been building is built with Visual Studio 2005.

It doesn't exactly give the option of setting the impersonate settings for CustomActions included in the MSI. My installer has a managed custom action that was not getting the Administrative priveleges that the rest of the installer is running under.

To fix this I installed a program named ORCA. Once installed i opened ORCA and used it to open the MSI package. On the left-hand side a list of editable regions of the MSI are listed. I navigated to the CustomAction package and located an action with a value of 1025. There are probably a few different values that this can contain. Using the wonderful MSDN documentation i located a value that turns ont he impersonation feature, 3137.

After changing the 1025 - 3137 i saved the file, closed ORCA, loaded the MSI on to a vista machine and it installed without any problems. I've solved this long time ago in a way that enables it to be added to automated build using some help from the internet (links are shown below). Run this script after creating the MSI file. Save this script to a file called 'NoImpersonate.vbs' and invoke it from a command line as this: cscript NoImpersonate.vbs MSI-FILE Here is the script code: ' - ' From: ' ' ' ' Since I had the same problems, I combined the 2 scripts, Aaron and Misha proposed to 1. ' For those, who are not developers and try to install an existing Msi, just run the script on the msi: ' cscript ' Here is the script, most of it is taken from Aarons post of setting the NoImpersonate-Flag: ' prepare MSI-Files for use on Vista-Systems ' Visual Studio forgot to include 2 things: ' 1. Mark Custom Actions as NoImpersonate, otherwise an Security-Error results in Error 2869 ' 2. User-Exceptions in CustomActions are not shown.

Instead a plain Error 2869 without description occurs. ' Therefore Error-Message for this case has to be defined. You are having the same problem as described above.

XP Professional has the same user access security turned on by default like Vista, this causes programmes run by users (even if that user is an administrator) to run with less privileges unless the programme has a manifest to elevate its privileges. Unfortunately as far as I know you can not attach manifests to customer actions of MSI files. The MSI, running under administrator, is starting new processes for the custom actions and they start with the lower privileges.

Setting the NoImpersonate flag stops the administrator from pretending to be a user with less privileges when starting these new processes. Hi, I appologise for starting up this old thread again. Not sure where to post this otherwise. If anyone could point that out the that would be helpfull.

I'm experiencing the MS Installer 2869 error as explained above in thread on Vista with VS 2005. I've run scrip to set the NoImpersonate bit on the custom action. I am running my setup.msi from the command prompt with admin rights (selected the cmd.exe as run as administrator). I have used the.Net Framework 2.0 Configuration tool to set my Runtime Security Policy Machine Code Groups MyComputerZone permission set to Everything.

In this state the install fails. When the permission is set to Full Trust the install succeeds no problem. I've done this at the recommendation of the MS Self Paced Exam Prep for 70-536. Am I right in thinking that when set to Full Trust any CAS statements in my code are completely ignored? The setup project attempts to install an untouched windows forms application.

It doesn't do anything but do the default stuff provided by the template. I seems as though an end user of an application might install it with at least an Everything permission set, otherwise CAS is ignored. Any feedback would be most appreciated. I found it helpful to adjust our MST Orca-transform file to modify the bit directly.

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Here is how to do so: 1. Open the MSI in Orca. Go to the CustomAction table. Find all rows that need modification. All rows whose Type value has the inscript bit set need modification. To verify: i.

Convert the row’s Type (decimal) value to Hex ii. And the Hex value with 0x400 (the inscript bit) iii.

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If result is not 0, then the row needs modification. For each of these custom action rows, perform the following steps: a. Convert the row’s Type (decimal) value to Hex b. Or the Hex value with 0x800 (which is the noimpersonate bit) c. Convert the value back to decimal. Replace the row’s Type value with the newly calculated decimal value.

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Shintaro sakamoto love if possible. Save the transformed MSI, if desired, or incorporate the above steps into an existing transform file for future re-use. Hi Elizas, I tried your solution and it works very well.

Thanks for the help here. But I had a doubt in my mind, how does running a Bat file as Administrator is different than running the msi file from the command windows which is opened up using 'runas /user:Administrator cmd'. This command will also open up the command window in admin mode and any application you run from there will be running under administrator. Also any Setup program get the privileges because of which it runs under the (logged in ) admin user account.

Then how is this behaviour different here? In the context of UAC systems and setups generated with Visual Studio 2008: In 'Everyone' installs the custom actions run as the system account because that's the way they run elevated. If you turn on impersonation they run as the installing user, but they do not run elevated, that's just how UAC systems behave.

If you want the impersonated custom actions to run elevated then you must arrange to have the entire MSI install run from an elevated context, either a setup.exe type of program that elevates then runs the MSI, or some other type of elevated context. Visual Studio 2005 setups have custom actions that are already impersonated, which is typically why they fail onm UAC systems unless you elevate the entire install.