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Reputation: 254

Upgrading a Windows service unattended

I have a Windows service app in C# and a setup project for installing the service. In the setup project, RemovePreviousVersion is set to true, and the custom actions are all set.

I upgrade the app by running the msi file which will have a higher version number than the installed version. While running the msi, I get a prompt saying the file is in use and asking me to Try Again, Continue or Exit. If I select Continue, the installation will go on happily and ask to restart at the end. This is all fine and expected.

However, I need to do the upgrade unattended by running the msi with msiexec using the /quiet option, which will fail and according to the log, the problem is due to file in use.

How can I install a msi unattended using msiexec if a file is in use? I am looking for a way of getting msiexec to work unattended rather than doing all the work myself stopping my service, etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 352

Answers (1)

Harun
Harun

Reputation: 5179

Try your re-installation after stopping the previous running service.

    control panel->Administrative tools->services

select your service from the opened service listing window and stop your service.

Hope this solves your problem.

Upvotes: 0

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