Software Deployment

Clearly the set-up stub is installing additional items, most likely performing some DLL registration or similar.

Proceed as you would if you had captured the install, i.e.:

- run your MSI, including any transform
- start a lightweight snapshotting tool, like InstallWatch or In Control and take a 'Before' snapshot
- rename the relevant 'Uninstall' registry key, to prevent the engine triggering a repair/modify/remove action
- run the set-up stub
- take an 'After snapshot

Incorporate any relevant changes into your transform.

Hi VBSCAB thanls for ur help......after adding a service and adding some registry files no i am getting another error Fatal error :- e06d7363h exception at 770c42ebh......unable to find about this on the net.....any clues???

Now you need to use monitoring tools to see what's happening. My guess is that the app is trying to access protected areas of the file system or registry. ProcMon will show you what's going on.

i have relentlessly tried using procmon and other tools for taking snapshots but to no avail........infact have been trying since past 5 days and haev tried everything in my capacity....but m jus not able to find out.....has any 1 faced a similar issue with autocad 2009?????

Presumably you've read the 'Package KB' notes? http://itninja.com/link/mapobjects-2.1-file-requirements-for-deploying-applications8

Is it pointing to any location, file/registry. Check with filemon/regmon

compare files and registries delivered by source and ur package

Check with filemon/regmonIt always pays to read the entire thread before responding :)
i have relentlessly tried using procmon and other tools for taking snapshots but to no avail @Ravindranath, it sounds like you need to fine-tune ProcMon and learn how to use it properly.

Set the filter to exclude the processes you're not interested in, particularly any a/v, stuff like svchost.exe, explorer.exe and so on. Otherwise, the output window is too cluttered. Once you have it set up, stop the capture IMMEDIATELY after the error message appears. Then you need to examine the last 3 or 4 screens of output. Remember that you can selectively "turn off" the view so that you only see, for example, file activity. You can then turn that off and view just registry activity.

Lastly, is the set-up stub authored in InstallShield, do you know? IIRC, there's a tool in IS AdminStudio (you can d/l a trial version to get this done) which can handle IS-authored stubs. If I was on my regular machine, I'd load up the VM I have with AS in it and be more specific. Someone else may know what that is and how to get to it.

nah the package has been built using wise as the vendor msi still has wise tables and entries left in it....

Ravindranath,
Does your vendor MSI itself shows up this error in Vista? or it is only after applying transforms?

Hi friends,
I am using windows'7 OS.
When i installed AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009 , I get errors as "MSI9E05, MSI45E8" and after that a pop-up appeared showing "Installation is completed successfully".
After that it is not opening. you guys please help me to solve this issue.