Software Deployment

You'll need to create some kind of script/wrapper that will look for an exit code on the uninstall to determine success, if its good then create a reg key in one of the following locations depending on per machine or per user:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Both keys are just like ..\Run, except they are executed once and removed from the registry.

if you could pass the uninstall to msi instead of installshield then you can use something like this for a wrapper..

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Set objWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
myuninstall = "msiexec /x <msifile> /qb-"
return = objWSH.Run(myuninstall,1,True)
if return = "1641" Then
Set bolBootNeeded = "True"
objWSH.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\InstallMyMSI", "Your command to your second msi", "REG_SZ"
end if
wscript.quit

VikingLoki :

That's fine, I didn't know the "RunOnce" key, exactly what I need !


rikx2 :

if you could pass the uninstall to msi instead of installshield then you can use something like this for a wrapper..

I don't understand what you mean. What do you mean by "pass the uninstall to msi" ?

My msi package launch (using a CA 34 + *.iss file) a silent IS uninstall during the MSI UIsequence. once that it is done, there is an automatic reboot. I hope that the IS uninstall ends up before the MSI stops (because of the reboot).

one another solution would be to make an IS silent uninstall which doesn't reboot, and this is the MSI which reboots if the exit code is good. MMmmh, that would be cool. But I need to find how to automatically reboot in an MSI, conditionned by an exit code... :-/