Microsoft Windows Installer RC1 ready for download
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 16 April 2004 - 10:10 · 10 comments & 1628 views
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#1 Posted by xan_san on 16 Apr 2004 - 10:28
- it is possible to download without being in the beta program? is there a link?
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#2 Posted by Darkness2k on 16 Apr 2004 - 10:40
- Try going to V5.Windowsupdate, because it used to install 3.0 when you get part way into the checking process.
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#3 Posted by PhyrAnt on 16 Apr 2004 - 13:04
- Watch out!
I'm on the V5 Windowsupdate beta and installed the MSI3.0 RC1 and could not install any .msi files until I uninstalled it. There may be some version incompaitibilities.
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#4 Posted by xan_san on 16 Apr 2004 - 13:17
- but V5.Windowsupdate requires you to be in the beta program too?!
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#5 Posted by griffinme on 16 Apr 2004 - 13:20
- "Installation Summary
The following updates were installed successfully:
Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS2) Client version 2.0 Beta
Windows Installer v3.0 RC1"
And we are off and running. I saw a demo of this a few weeks ago. If it is the same thing, they were talking about combining Windows and Office update. With all the holes in Office this should have been done a long time ago.
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#6 Posted by MrMunka on 16 Apr 2004 - 16:46
- WARNING!!!!!!!
Some older .msi application will not work with MSI3.0 RC1. If your gettting funny errors when trying to install something, this is more than likly your problem. Try uninstalling MSI3.0 RC1 to fix the issue.
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#7 Posted by lnatan25 on 16 Apr 2004 - 18:02
- Offtopic, what is this XOXIDE banner on the right???
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#8 Posted by Tempest on 16 Apr 2004 - 23:47
- MrMunka is right about installer errors. Some installers would not play well with RC1...had to uninstall it.
New features in the MSI3.0 / RC1 release:
Authors need to explicitly mark patches in order to support uninstall.
The new MsiPatchMetadata table provides additional information about a patch - including whether it supports uninstall
PatchWiz.dll, the SDK tool used to create MSPs has been enhanced to support the new MsiPatchSequence and MsiPatchMetadata tables. It can also generate automatic patch sequencing information that should suffice for simple product servicing. PatchWiz has been optimized to significantly reduce the time taken to create patches.
MSI30 and update.exe support the same standard command line options to make it easy for administrators to control display, reboot behavior, install, uninstall, log generation and applying updates. Try msiexec /? after you install the RC1 bits.
Thank you for participating in this beta program. We look forward to your valuable feedback.
Windows Installer Group
MSI30 adds support for smaller binary delta compression patches for assemblies.
MSI30/RC1 includes a whitepaper on patch sequencing to help product teams design and implement servicing strategies that can take advantage of Patch Sequencing.