Software Deployment

What do you mean that your package doesn't capture this?

Have you restarted the printer spoooler within your package? Maybe that's the solution?

Create a Custom Action to run the following command;

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /q /in /ga /n\\ServerName\PrinterName

The switch /ga will ensure that the printer is available to everyone logging onto the machine.

Please let me know how to restart the spooler service in package itself

What tool do you use for repackaging?

Its wise Packaging stidio 4

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Hello Lillude,

Go to the 'Setup Editor' view, and then 'tables' and choose the 'ServiceControl' table.

Create a new row with the following entries:

ServiceControl = Restart_Spooler_Service
Name = Spooler
Event = 3
Wait = 1
Component_ = any valid component in your MSI package.



REMARKS: The Name variable Spooler is the service name in the registry. ie: you can restart any service with MSI packages, not just the ones you are installing.

REMEMBER: The MSI will only start/stop the service when the referenced component is being installed/uninstalled.

[8D] Keep cool. [8D]

You have to make sure you're capturing the relevant "hardware" registry keys too. There's an option in your "snapshot" configuration options. These are not captured by default, in order to avoid novices accidentally overwriting/deleting important system services.