Wix: Cannot call DISM from Wix CustomAction

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Wix 3.10

After reading the article (Run ExeCommand in customAction as Administrator mode in Wix Installer), I have used a deferred CustomAction with attribute Impersonate="no", calling a batch file with DISM command.

    <Property Id="CMD">
      <DirectorySearch Id="CmdFolder" Path="[SystemFolder]" Depth="1">
        <FileSearch Id="CmdExe" Name="cmd.exe"  />
      </DirectorySearch>
    </Property>
    <Property Id="SXSPATH" Secure="yes" Value="SXSFOLDER" />
    <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
        <Directory Id="SXSFOLDER" />
    </Directory>


    <CustomAction Id="SetCustomActionData" Return="check" Property="OfflineSxSInstall" Value="[SXSFOLDER]" />

    <CustomAction Id="OfflineSxSInstall" Property="CMD" Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="no" ExeCommand="/c &quot;&quot;[#file_configure.bat]&quot; &quot;[SXSFOLDER]&quot;&quot;" />

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
        <Custom Action="OfflineSxSInstall" After="InstallFiles">NOT Installed</Custom>
    </InstallExecuteSequence>

Sadly, always DISM returns error 11 "You cannot service a running 64-bit operating system with a 32-bit version of DISM. Please use the version of DISM that corresponds to your computer's architecture"....

Firstly, I have tried to call proper CMD.exe and DISM.exe for the 64bit Windows 2012R2 test environment, ..... but always returns same error despite the absolute path of DISM, changing Path="[SystemFolder]" to "[System64Folder]"...

Then I found an article with Similar phenomenon (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/e25c27cf-ca6d-4079-90a1-8201ffc503e5/dism-gives-error-11?forum=w8itprogeneral) It tells me that it derived from lack of permission...

Currently I have tried to solve the problem by using schtasks.exe clearly running as Administrator...(Probably with login and password by Wix public parameter....user input with Wix UI window, ugly....)

configure.bat

setlocal

echo ＠Starting Installation of IIS Role Services and .NET Framework.... ＠%DATE%_%TIME%   >> C:\temp\test_configure.txt 2>&1


REM cd C:\Windows\SysWOW64
cd >> C:\temp\test_configure.txt 2>&1
echo %1 >> C:\temp\test_configure.txt 2>&1
SET SXS_SOURCE_PATH=%1

DISM.exe /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /Source:%SXS_SOURCE_PATH% >> C:\temp\test_configure.txt 2>&1
if !ERRORLEVEL! neq 0 (
    ECHO interrupting Installation of IIS Role Services and .NET Framework....＠%DATE%_%TIME%  >> C:\temp\test_configure.txt 2>&1
    EXIT /B 100
)       


DISM.exe /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:IIS-WebServerRole /FeatureName:IIS-RequestFiltering /FeatureName:IIS-Security /FeatureName:IIS-HttpLogging /FeatureName:IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics /FeatureName:IIS-WebServerManagementTools /FeatureName:IIS-ManagementConsole /FeatureName:IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility /FeatureName:IIS-Metabase /FeatureName:IIS-WebServer /FeatureName:IIS-Performance /FeatureName:IIS-HttpCompressionStatic /FeatureName:IIS-CommonHttpFeatures /FeatureName:IIS-StaticContent /FeatureName:IIS-DefaultDocument /FeatureName:IIS-DirectoryBrowsing /FeatureName:IIS-HttpErrors /FeatureName:IIS-ApplicationDevelopment /FeatureName:IIS-ASPNET /FeatureName:IIS-NetFxExtensibility /FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIExtensions /FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIFilter /all /Source:%SXS_SOURCE_PATH% >> C:\temp\test_configure.txt 2>&1

if !ERRORLEVEL! neq 0 (
    ECHO ＠interrupting Installation of IIS Role Services and .NET Framework....＠%DATE%_%TIME%  >> C:\temp\test_configure.txt 2>&1
    EXIT /B 100
)       



echo ＠Complete  Installation of IIS Role Services and .NET Framework....＠%DATE%_%TIME%   >> C:\temp\test_configure.txt 2>&1

endlocal
exit /B 0

Any ideas? I'm afraid that I must face something big thing like the DISM API....

P.S. Following kind @Chris Riccio's advice, I stopped using batch file, and QuietExec works fine, while the AddIISComponent command is not so long. (If I used the comment out command, LIGHT warned "LGHT1076 : ICE03: String overflow (greater than length permitted in column); Table: CustomAction, Column: Target, Key(s): AddDISMComponent." )

    <CustomAction Id="SetCustomActionData" Return="check" Property="AddDISMComponent" Value="[SXSFOLDER]" />

    <!--<CustomAction Id='AddDISMComponent' Property='DISMComponent' Value='"[System64Folder]dism.exe" /norestart /quiet /online /enable-feature /FeatureName:IIS-WebServerRole /FeatureName:IIS-RequestFiltering /FeatureName:IIS-Security /FeatureName:IIS-HttpLogging /FeatureName:IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics /FeatureName:IIS-WebServerManagementTools /FeatureName:IIS-ManagementConsole /FeatureName:IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility /FeatureName:IIS-Metabase /FeatureName:IIS-WebServer /FeatureName:IIS-Performance /FeatureName:IIS-HttpCompressionStatic /FeatureName:IIS-CommonHttpFeatures /FeatureName:IIS-StaticContent /FeatureName:IIS-DefaultDocument /FeatureName:IIS-DirectoryBrowsing /FeatureName:IIS-HttpErrors /FeatureName:IIS-ApplicationDevelopment /FeatureName:IIS-ASPNET /FeatureName:IIS-NetFxExtensibility /FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIExtensions /FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIFilter /FeatureName:NetFx3 /all /Source:[SXSFOLDER]' Execute='immediate'/>-->
    <CustomAction Id='AddDISMComponent' Property='DISMComponent' Value='"[System64Folder]dism.exe" /norestart /quiet /online /enable-feature /FeatureName:IIS-WebServerRole /FeatureName:NetFx3 /all /Source:[SXSFOLDER]' Execute='immediate'/>
    <CustomAction Id="DISMComponent" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec64" Execute="deferred" Return="ignore" Impersonate="no" />

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
      <Custom Action="AddDISMComponent" After="CostFinalize" />
      <Custom Action="DISMComponent" After="InstallInitialize"><![CDATA[(NOT Installed)]]></Custom> 
    </InstallExecuteSequence>

I have currently tried to call multiple QuietExec-DISM commands chopping up the long parameters...

Not smart....

    <CustomAction Id='AddDISMComponent1' Property='DISMComponent1' Value='"[System64Folder]dism.exe" /norestart /quiet /online /enable-feature /FeatureName:IIS-WebServerRole /Source:[SXSFOLDER]' Execute='immediate'/>
    <CustomAction Id="DISMComponent1" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec64" Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="no" />

    <CustomAction Id='AddDISMComponent2' Property='DISMComponent2' Value='"[System64Folder]dism.exe" /norestart /quiet /online /enable-feature /FeatureName:IIS-RequestFiltering /Source:[SXSFOLDER]' Execute='immediate'/>
    <CustomAction Id="DISMComponent2" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec64" Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="no" />

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
      <Custom Action="AddDISMComponent1" After="CostFinalize" />
      <Custom Action="AddDISMComponent2" After="AddDISMComponent1" />
      <Custom Action="DISMComponent1" After="InstallInitialize"><![CDATA[(NOT Installed)]]></Custom> 
      <Custom Action="DISMComponent2" After="DISMComponent1"><![CDATA[(NOT Installed)]]></Custom> 
    </InstallExecuteSequence>

Chris Riccio Chris Riccio · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-19T23:31:08

You can use the built in Wix QuietExec custom action to run the dism command line - this should simplify the installer quite a bit

    <CustomAction Id='AddIISComponent' Property='IISComponent' Value='"[System64Folder]dism.exe" /norestart /quiet /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-WebServerRole /all' Execute='immediate'/>
    <CustomAction Id="IISComponent" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec64" Execute="deferred" Return="ignore" Impersonate="no" />
    <InstallExecuteSequence>
        <Custom Action="AddIISComponent" After="CostFinalize" />
        <Custom Action="IISComponent" After="InstallInitialize"><![CDATA[(NOT Installed)]]></Custom> 
    </InstallExecuteSequence>

Here's a complete sample

Wix: Cannot call DISM from Wix CustomAction

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