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kjullion

Thanks for the reply Catalin. Two related questions:

Is there anything to prevent us from using the "Release Date" field for our own purposes in the .aiu file even if we aren't using License Validity Checks? We think we have a possible workaround solution which might make that field useful to us ...

kjullion

Hi,
We understand that the updater config project has a Release Date field that is available.

What we would like to do is publish an auto-update on about the 29th of the month, but with a release date set to the 1st of the following month. So, on Aug 29th publish the auto update to our website ...

kjullion

Check that, we are Ok now that we have the SHA256 enabled. I tampered with the SHA256 hash signature in the AIU file and that caused our auto-updates to fail, which is good...that is what we were hoping for.

kjullion

Actually we do still have a question: it is about the MD5 and SHA2565 hash values. We would like it so that our auto-update installation doesn't succeed if the hash value in the AIU file does not match the hash of the file to be installed. But our testing of this so far has shown that (when we were ...

kjullion

Ok, thanks for the two links. We've now enabled the "Install only digitally signed update packages signed with the same certificate as the Updater" setting and that seems to be working as expected. Only digitally signed auto-update Setup files are allowed to succeed in the process. But, we still ...

kjullion

Hi,
I thought that by using the "Compute MD5 signature from file" in the Updates Config projects and digitally signing our Setup exe that we would be able to prevent someone from maliciously tampering with the auto-update process.

But, I think in my tests I have proved two things which surprised ...

kjullion

Lots of times during testing I have initiated a Build and inadvertently overwritten an prior build with teh same name.

Would it be possible to add an option to the Builds node which when checked would not start the build until the user acknowledges that they want to overwrite an existing file with ...

kjullion

Hi,
We were wondering if the auto-update process can be tweaked to download from the published site a file other than our Setup exe?

For instance, if we wanted to download from the published area an xlsx file which our program could then consume. No installation would be required in this scenario ...

kjullion

Hi Catalin,
No problem, I have found a suitable work-around.

I just interrogate the .aiu file after it has been downloaded, and in it I can search for the line which starts with "Version = " and from that information I can get what I need.

Thanks!
Kevin

kjullion

Hi,
Is it possible to call the Updater.exe in such as way as to determine what is the Version # of the build(s) which are available once the auto-update build(s) has been published?

Thanks,
Kevin

kjullion

This was fixed, when the user that got the error was upgraded to have Administrative access to their local machine.

kjullion

Hi,
We have one user that is reporting that our installation is failing on a new Win7 HP laptop. No other users are reporting this error.
The error is causing our overall installation to halt, because it's a prerequisite which is failing.

Here is the MSI log file entry ...

kjullion

Hi,
Our setup is fairly straightforward in that it doesn't install multiple features. On the Product Details > Add or Remove Programs (Control Panel) we have set to "on" both the "Disable Modify" and "Disable Repair" this works perfectly if the user goes to Control Panel to add/remove a program. But ...

kjullion

If the updater.exe doesn't find any appropriately named .AIU file on the webserver, it seems to throw this error:
-536870888 (&HFFFFFFFFE0000018)
(see attachment).

Is this correct/expected behavior?
Is this trappleable so that if the file is missing the user doesn't see my error message box dialog ...

kjullion

Hi Daniel,
I've tried moving my "SET_USER_DOMAIN" custom action to the top part of the "Install Execution Stage" but still during the Silent installation scenario my custom property is not getting set, or so it seems. Is there a blog or help page that dissects more the Install with sequence concepts ...

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Re: Release Date property of the Configs projects

Release Date property of the Configs projects

Re: blocking tampered auto-updates from installing?

Re: blocking tampered auto-updates from installing?

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Builds node; can an "are you sure?" prompt be added

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Get available version build number from updater.exe

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Error 4153. Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable mandatory prerequisite was not correctly installed

Disabling Modify / Repair from the MaintenaneTypeDlg

updater.exe and missing AIU file

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