I havecouple ofissues with the msi setup that I created for my application. We are also using SMS to push the msi package to all the machines. If I install manually using windows add/remove then it works fine.

Here are the details
1. The msi package is created using VS 2005 with install option for Everyone.
2. We have found that for some users it installs with just for me option as opposed to for every one when pushed through SMS.
3. As a result of 2 I am looking for ways to uninstall the product that got installed with just for me. Our users don't have admin rights for their machines.

Thanks

Part of this may be the way VS setups work, which I don't thinkis deterministic enough. The MSI file is built with an ALLUSERS property value of 2, which means "do an Everyone install if the user is privileged, otherwise fall back to a Just me install". This might be having an effect.

So I think if you are doing the "assign to machine" install (if I remember thatexpression correctly) then SMS will try to do a per-machine Everyone install, but itwill fall back to per-user if you haven't set up the environmentformanaged installs. That's related to the AlwaysInstallElevated setting here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369784(VS.85).aspx
that a non-administrator can't set, but Group Policy can.

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Phil Wilson

Hi SanChips,

I am moving this thread from Base ".NET FrameworkSetup" forum to the "ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects" forum, since the issue is related to deployment. There are more deployment experts in the "ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects" forum.

Thanks

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Part of this may be the way VS setups work, which I don't thinkis deterministic enough. The MSI file is built with an ALLUSERS property value of 2, which means "do an Everyone install if the user is privileged, otherwise fall back to a Just me install". This might be having an effect.

So I think if you are doing the "assign to machine" install (if I remember thatexpression correctly) then SMS will try to do a per-machine Everyone install, but itwill fall back to per-user if you haven't set up the environmentformanaged installs. That's related to the AlwaysInstallElevated setting here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369784(VS.85).aspx
that a non-administrator can't set, but Group Policy can.

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Phil Wilson