Wix upgrade msi removing already installed features

Question

I am using the Wix Toolset to generate an .msi for my application. Everything works when I upgrade to a new version, except every time I run a newer version installation the setup doesn't detect already installed features and instead defaults to the features that are 'required' which means if the user installed any of the other features they are removed unless the user explicitly checks them for installation again.

Is there anyway to have the .msi detect which features are currently installed each time a newer version is installed?

            <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension">
          <Product Id="*" UpgradeCode="9e578e3d-0119-425c-8633-f54ffaaa4929" Name="@product.name@" Version="@product.version@" Manufacturer="@product.company@" Language="1033">
            <Package InstallerVersion="400" Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perMachine" Comments="@product.version@" Description="@product.description@"/>
            <Media Id="1" Cabinet="myapp.cab" EmbedCab="yes" />

            <!-- Installer Properties -->
            <Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="INSTALLDIR" />
            <PropertyRef Id="WIX_IS_NETFRAMEWORK_46_OR_LATER_INSTALLED"/>

            <!-- Check Existing Install -->
            <Upgrade Id="9e578e3d-0119-425c-8633-f54ffaaa4929">
                <UpgradeVersion Minimum="@product.version@" OnlyDetect="yes" Property="NEWERVERSIONDETECTED"/>
                <UpgradeVersion Minimum="0.0.0" Maximum="@product.version@" IncludeMinimum="yes" IncludeMaximum="no" Property="OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED"/>   
            </Upgrade>
            <Condition Message="A newer version of this software is already installed.">NOT NEWERVERSIONDETECTED</Condition>

            <!-- Prerequisites -->
            <Condition Message="This application requires .NET Framework 4.6 or newer. Please install the .NET Framework then run this installer again.">
                <![CDATA[Installed OR WIX_IS_NETFRAMEWORK_46_OR_LATER_INSTALLED]]>
            </Condition>

            <Condition Message="This application is only supported on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher.">
                <![CDATA[Installed OR (VersionNT >= 601)]]>
            </Condition>

    ...

    <Feature Id="Feature_Application"
                         Title="Application"
                         ConfigurableDirectory="APPLICATIONDIR"
                         Level="1"
                         AllowAdvertise="no">
                        @product.applicationcomponents@
                        <ComponentRef Id="ApplicationShortcut" />                    
                        <ComponentRef Id="CleanupApplicationData" />                    
        </Feature>

        <!--  Feature: My Service -->
        <Feature Id="Feature_Service"
                         Title="My Service"
                         Description="My Service"
                         ConfigurableDirectory="REPORTDIR"
                         Level="3"
                         AllowAdvertise="no">
                        @product.servicecomponents@    
                        <ComponentRef Id="ServiceShortcut" />                    
            <Component Id="MyServiceInstaller_ServiceControl" Guid="B72CAA3F-F2DB-48D2-90DD-061209AB2CE5" Directory="REPORTDIR">
                <CreateFolder />
                <File Id="MyService.exe" Name="MyService.exe" KeyPath="yes" Source="@product.sourcedir@\MyService\MyService.exe"/>
                <ServiceInstall Id="MyServiceInstaller_ServiceInstall"
                    Type="ownProcess"
                    Vital="yes"
                    Name="Windows Service"                    
                    DisplayName="Windows Service"
                    Description="Windows service"
                    Start="auto"
                    Account="NT AUTHORITY\LocalService"
                    ErrorControl="ignore"
                    Interactive="no" />
                <ServiceControl Id="MyServiceInstaller_ServiceInstall" 
                    Name="My Service"
                    Stop="both"
                    Remove="uninstall"
                    Wait="yes" />               
            </Component>     

        </Feature>

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
        <RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallValidate"/>
    </InstallExecuteSequence>   

    <UIRef Id="WixUI_FeatureTree" />
    <UI>
      <DialogRef Id="FilesInUse" />
      <DialogRef Id="MsiRMFilesInUse" />
      <!-- Add the GUI logic for installation -->
    </UI>
  </Product>

Seems odd, the MigrateFeatureStates standard action should be taking care of this unless your UI is re-setting the states back to 'default' values. I would suggest doing the upgrade twice, once with the UI (msiexec /i install.msi /lv UILog.txt) and once quietly (msiexec /i install.msi /qn /lv quietLog.txt) and see what happens with the feature states. — Brian Sutherland
you could use (!FeatureID=3) to detect if feature is installed. Check link for more information : firegiant.com/wix/tutorial/com-expression-syntax-miscellanea/… — Ashish Kamat

dpb dpb · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-11T12:11:36

Try using MajorUpgrade tag.

`<MajorUpgrade DowngradeErrorMessage="Can’t downgrade." />`

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11028847/7165196

Wix upgrade msi removing already installed features

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