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LazarusG
LazarusG

Reputation: 150

Edit MSI with Orca to add registry keys on install

I'm trying to streamline the installation of a package that requires a registry change after installation. I wanted to instead be able to just add the registry change into the MSI (I did not write the code, I'm simply trying to edit the existing MSI) and have it deployed remotely and just be done with it.

Can anyone provide some good examples on how to perform this? Also, any recommendations for books dealing with modifying MSIs or a site that gives some in depth explanation over what Microsoft provides would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 4

Views: 20444

Answers (3)

Christopher Painter
Christopher Painter

Reputation: 55581

What you are looking for is called a transform. See:

Basic Patch and Transform Concepts in ORCA

Basically you use ORCA ( or InstallShield Tuner or similar tools ) to create a transform with your registry values then save it to an MST file. From there you can say:

msiexec /i foo.msi TRANSFORMS=foo.mst

And you'll see your expected behavior without modifying the original MSI. Also if the vendor ships a new MSI there's a good chance you'll be able to appy the MST to the new MSI. ( YMMV depending on what changed from release to relase in the MSI. )

BTW, while it's important for Setup Developers to understand transforms, your question is typically see as an IT Deployment question and possibly belongs over on ServerFault.

Also I should note that InstallShield has a Transform project type allows you to use the full UI of InstallShield to author the MST without dealing directly (unless you need/want to ) the underlying MSI tables.

Upvotes: 1

Ciprian
Ciprian

Reputation: 3565

The MSDN has a step by step example of how to create a MSI package using ORCA. One of the step is how to add registry information. You can find it here

Upvotes: 5

hamid reza mansouri
hamid reza mansouri

Reputation: 11323

You can use Setup And Deployment project in Visual studio. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307353

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa266445%28v=vs.60%29.aspx

Upvotes: -1

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