I am creating Wix installer for IIS website with possibility in UI choose website, app pool and choose virtual directory. Thing is: I successfully created installer, which works with UAC off, but with UAC set to max. i get error - from MSI log:
MSI (c) (A0:C8) [16:41:21:692]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Users\kovac\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI1AEF.tmp, Entrypoint: EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools MSI (c) (A0:CC) [16:41:21:692]: Cloaking enabled. MSI (c) (A0:CC) [16:41:21:692]: Attempting to enable all disabled privileges before calling Install on Server MSI (c) (A0:CC) [16:41:21:692]: Connected to service for CA interface. SFXCA: Extracting custom action to temporary directory: C:\Users\kovac\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI1AEF.tmp-\ SFXCA: Binding to CLR version v4.0.30319 Calling custom action WebAppInstallCustomActions!WebAppInstallCustomActions.CustomActions.EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools: Begin EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools: ATTEMPTING TO RUN WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS CustomAction EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox) Action ended 16:41:23: EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools. Return value 3. MSI (c) (A0:B0) [16:41:23:878]: Doing action: FatalError Action 16:41:23: FatalError.
I tried to follow articles - all i just understood was that i should run my custom action with Impersonate="no" so i did but with no success Additional info: there is no asking from UAC if custom action can be run with right or notm it just ends installer...
<CustomAction Id="EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools"
BinaryKey="WebAppCA"
DllEntry="EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools"
Execute="immediate"
Return="check" Impersonate="no" />
Also i read somewhere that actions needs to be run as deffered - but in this case it is not possible - as i need list of websites for user before installing.
My question is how can i run custom action with full right - with UAC on, specifically how are UAC related to admin rights applied on running CA? appreciate any help or any suggestion what to... As i don't know importance and problem domain i rather attach custom action script written in C#:
/// <summary>
/// Adds the II7 web sites and the application pool names to the
/// ComboBox table in the MSI file.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="session">
/// The installer session.
/// </param>
/// <returnenter code heres>
/// Always returns ActionResult.Success, otherwise rethrows the error
/// encountered.
/// </returns>
/// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException">
/// Thrown if the <paramref name="session"/> parameter is null.
/// </exception>
[CustomAction]
public static ActionResult EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools(
Session session)
{
Debugger.Launch();
if (null == session)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("session");
}
session.Log("EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools: Begin");
// Check if running with admin rights and if not, log a message to
// let them know why it's failing.
if (false == HasAdminRights())
{
session.Log("EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools: " +
"ATTEMPTING TO RUN WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS");
return ActionResult.Failure;
}
session.Log("EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools: " +
"Getting the IIS 7 management object");
ActionResult result;
using (ServerManager iisManager = new ServerManager())
{
result = EnumSitesIntoComboBox(session, iisManager);
if (ActionResult.Success == result)
{
result = EnumAppPoolsIntoComboBox(session, iisManager);
}
}
session.Log("EnumerateIISWebSitesAndAppPools: End");
return result;
}
private static ActionResult EnumSitesIntoComboBox(Session session, ServerManager iisManager) { try { // Debugger.Break(); session.Log("EnumSites: Begin");
// Grab the combo box but make sure I'm getting only the one
// from WebAppInstallDlg.
View view = session.Database.OpenView(
"SELECT * FROM ComboBox WHERE ComboBox.Property='WEBSITE_NAME'");
view.Execute();
Int32 index = 1;
session.Log("EnumSites: Enumerating the sites");
foreach (Site site in iisManager.Sites)
{
// Create a record for this web site. All I care about is
// the name so use it for fields three and four.
session.Log("EnumSites: Processing site: {0}", site.Name);
Record record = session.Database.CreateRecord(4);
record.SetString(1, "WEBSITE_NAME");
record.SetInteger(2, index);
record.SetString(3, site.Name);
record.SetString(4, site.Name);
session.Log("EnumSites: Adding record");
view.Modify(ViewModifyMode.InsertTemporary, record);
index++;
}
view.Close();
session.Log("EnumSites: End");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
session.Log("EnumSites: exception: {0}", ex.Message);
throw;
}
return ActionResult.Success;
}
static bool HasAdminRights()
{
WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity);
return principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);
}
