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Do not change the service start type on upgrade

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Do not change the service start type on upgrade

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Hello,

I am quite new to wix and stuck with an issue.

I have a windows service which is installed as a part of an MSI , the service start being set to manual. The users can change this to automatic after installation.

Now if we install an update, the service is deleted and re-installed and the service start is set to manual again. I would like to have a way in which the service start type should not change if the user has set it to automatic when an upgrade msi is being installed.

I tried :

Get the current service start type
<Property Id='SERVICE_STATUS'>
<RegistrySearch Id='ServiceStatus' Type='raw' Root='HKLM' Key='SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Services\My Service' Name='Start' />
</Property>

=====
Based on the Property tried suppressing the installservices and deleteservices elements in the InstallExecuete table
<DeleteServices Suppress="yes" >SERVICE_STATUS </DeleteServices>
<InstallServices Suppress="yes" >SERVICE_STATUS<InstallServices >

This did not work.

====
Then I tried to create two different component elements:

<Component Id="My_Service" Guid="67B3D72D-0CB9-41BA-B76A-ADEF1DF87745" DiskId="1">

<Condition><![CDATA[SERVICE_STATUS AND (SERVICE_STATUS = "#2")]]></Condition>
<Serviceinstall ... Start="auto"...
<File...
<servicecontrol...

and

<Component Id="My_Service1" Guid="A50691F0-5C0F-49d5-AA27-9C5280278459" DiskId="1">

<Condition><![CDATA[(NOT SERVICE_STATUS) OR (SERVICE_STATUS <> "#2")]]></Condition>
<ServiceInstall Start="demand"...
<File...
<servicecontrol...

In this case service does not install when I upgrade from older version of MSI
=======

Any other ways in which i tried setting a property and using it as a value in the start attribute of serviceinstall element failed as it did not support properties.

Could anyone point me to the correct way of doing this?

Thanks

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Yan Sklyarenko

Re: Do not change the service start type on upgrade

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Can you try setting the Component's attribute NeverOverwrite to 'yes'?
Didn't try it myself, though...

-- Yan

-----Original Message-----
From: Saurabh [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:18 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [WiX-users] Do not change the service start type on upgrade

Hello,

I am quite new to wix and stuck with an issue.

I have a windows service which is installed as a part of an MSI , the
service start being set to manual. The users can change this to
automatic after installation.

Now if we install an update, the service is deleted and re-installed and
the service start is set to manual again. I would like to have a way in
which the service start type should not change if the user has set it to
automatic when an upgrade msi is being installed.

I tried :

Get the current service start type
<Property Id='SERVICE_STATUS'>
<RegistrySearch Id='ServiceStatus' Type='raw' Root='HKLM'
Key='SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Services\My Service' Name='Start' />

</Property>

=====
Based on the Property tried suppressing the installservices and
deleteservices elements in the InstallExecuete table
<DeleteServices Suppress="yes" >SERVICE_STATUS </DeleteServices>
<InstallServices Suppress="yes" >SERVICE_STATUS<InstallServices >

This did not work.

====
Then I tried to create two different component elements:

<Component Id="My_Service" Guid="67B3D72D-0CB9-41BA-B76A-ADEF1DF87745"
DiskId="1">

<Condition><![CDATA[SERVICE_STATUS AND (SERVICE_STATUS =
"#2")]]></Condition>
<Serviceinstall ... Start="auto"...
<File...
<servicecontrol...

and

<Component Id="My_Service1"
Guid="A50691F0-5C0F-49d5-AA27-9C5280278459" DiskId="1">

<Condition><![CDATA[(NOT SERVICE_STATUS) OR
(SERVICE_STATUS <> "#2")]]></Condition>
<ServiceInstall Start="demand"...
<File...
<servicecontrol...

In this case service does not install when I upgrade from older version
of MSI
=======

Any other ways in which i tried setting a property and using it as a
value in the start attribute of serviceinstall element failed as it did
not support properties.

Could anyone point me to the correct way of doing this?

Thanks

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Bob Arnson-6

Re: Do not change the service start type on upgrade

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Saurabh wrote:
> Now if we install an update, the service is deleted and re-installed and the service start is set to manual again. I would like to have a way in which the service start type should not change if the user has set it to automatic when an upgrade msi is being installed.
>

If you use a major upgrade, the only way to prevent the service from
being removed is to use a late scheduling of RemoveExistingProducts,
either just before or just after InstallFinalize. Note that that
scheduling requires adherence to the component rules. See
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/30/paying-for-upgrades/ for more details.

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Saurabh-5

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Yan,

I would like to overwrite the files, but keep the service start type same after installation as it was before.

--Saurabh

--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Yan Sklyarenko <[hidden email]> wrote:

> From: Yan Sklyarenko <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Do not change the service start type on upgrade
> To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <[hidden email]>
> Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 11:38 PM
> Can you try setting the Component's
> attribute NeverOverwrite to 'yes'?
> Didn't try it myself, though...
>
> -- Yan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saurabh [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:18 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [WiX-users] Do not change the service start type
> on upgrade
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am quite new to wix and stuck with an issue.
>
> I have a windows service which is installed as a part of an
> MSI , the
> service start being set to manual. The users can change
> this to
> automatic after installation.
>
> Now if we install an update, the service is deleted and
> re-installed and
> the service start is set to manual again. I would like to
> have a way in
> which the service start type should not change if the user
> has set it to
> automatic when an upgrade msi is being installed.
>
>
> I tried :
>
> Get the current service start type
> <Property Id='SERVICE_STATUS'>
> <RegistrySearch
> Id='ServiceStatus' Type='raw' Root='HKLM'
> Key='SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Services\My Service'
> Name='Start' />
>
> </Property>
>
> =====
> Based on the Property tried suppressing the installservices
> and
> deleteservices elements in the InstallExecuete table
> <DeleteServices Suppress="yes" >SERVICE_STATUS
> </DeleteServices>
> <InstallServices Suppress="yes"
> >SERVICE_STATUS<InstallServices >
>
> This did not work.
>
> ====
> Then I tried to create two different component elements:
>
> <Component Id="My_Service"
> Guid="67B3D72D-0CB9-41BA-B76A-ADEF1DF87745"
> DiskId="1">
>
> 
>
> <Condition><![CDATA[SERVICE_STATUS AND
> (SERVICE_STATUS =
> "#2")]]></Condition>
> <Serviceinstall ... Start="auto"...
> <File...
> <servicecontrol...
>
> and
>
>
> <Component Id="My_Service1"
> Guid="A50691F0-5C0F-49d5-AA27-9C5280278459" DiskId="1">
>
> 
>
> <Condition><![CDATA[(NOT SERVICE_STATUS) OR
> (SERVICE_STATUS <> "#2")]]></Condition>
>
> <ServiceInstall Start="demand"...
>
> <File...
>
> <servicecontrol...
>
> In this case service does not install when I upgrade from
> older version
> of MSI
> =======
>
> Any other ways in which i tried setting a property and
> using it as a
> value in the start attribute of serviceinstall element
> failed as it did
> not support properties.
>
> Could anyone point me to the correct way of doing this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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Saurabh-5

Re: Do not change the service start type on upgrade

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Bob,

That i what we are doing in the wix (I checked after your reply)
<RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallFinalize"/>

Also I do not mind if we delete the service as long as we can save the start type before deleting and then set the start type to the same during serviceinstall.

--Saurabh

--- On Wed, 7/8/09, Bob Arnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

> From: Bob Arnson <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Do not change the service start type on upgrade
> To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <[hidden email]>
> Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 4:55 AM
> Saurabh wrote:
> > Now if we install an update, the service is deleted
> and re-installed and the service start is set to manual
> again. I would like to have a way in which the service start
> type should not change if the user has set it to automatic
> when an upgrade msi is being installed.
> >
>
> If you use a major upgrade, the only way to prevent the
> service from
> being removed is to use a late scheduling of
> RemoveExistingProducts,
> either just before or just after InstallFinalize. Note that
> that
> scheduling requires adherence to the component rules. See
> http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/30/paying-for-upgrades/
> for more details.
>
> --
> sig://boB
> http://joyofsetup.com/
>
>
>
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Bob Arnson-6

Re: Do not change the service start type on upgrade

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Saurabh wrote:
> Also I do not mind if we delete the service as long as we can save the start type before deleting and then set the start type to the same during serviceinstall.
>

MSI doesn't support that; it will install the service with the start
type defined in the ServiceInstall table.

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