Msi serial number switch

View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Popular Topics in General Windows. Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Learn More ». Mike This person is a verified professional. Thai Pepper. Spartan This person is a verified professional. Advanced Installer allows you to easily add a serial number protection for your package. There are two types of serial validation each having its advantages and disadvantages: Predefined List and Algorithm Verified.

In this case the package will check whether that the serials pass a certain algorithm verification. I know it is generally a bad idea, but at this point I think I am going to re-package this in Wise.

Please let me know if you come up with any ideas though. Thanks again for looking. Posted by: nheim 15 years ago. Hi Schieb, which Software exactly are we talking about here? You can capture it and add the missing keys to the original package, that would be a way to go. But just repack and hope Have you analysed the logfile? This is a common place to store install-specific things. Regards, Nick. I have analyzed the log.

I am trying to get one msi file in the end that contains some ODBC information along with the valid serial so the software is registerted. I then deploy it via Altiris. I have checked the Uninstall path but there is nothing there that seems to be related to registering it.

Posted by: gmorgan 15 years ago. If you can get a copy of the MSI from within the Setup. From this you should be able to get the property you need to set in the Property table If you use ORCA Close the log Good luck. I was able to do a setup. It always installs as Demo version with no prompts for anything. I have been using ORCA and I have tried multiple properties, even some proprietary ones related to installshield, no luck. The key is not stored encrypted but something is happening during the install.

I have tried importing all the good keys from a registered version over the place of the one I install with no luck. I don't know what InstallShield is doing to with IDriver. I have run filemons and regmons. Here is some more information that relates to my problem. In some cases, the MSI file contains no internal dialogs, and instead the setup. These custom actions will fail if setup. How can I provide the serial number to the custom actions is what I think I need to figure out.

Administrative installation option. Installs a product on the network. Advertises a product. Writes logging information into a logfile at the specified existing path.

The path to the logfile location must already exist. The installer does not create the directory structure for the logfile. Flags indicate which information to log. If no flags are specified, the default is 'iwearmo. Windows Installer 2. The x option is available with Windows Installer version 3. Note] For more information about all the methods that are available for setting the logging mode, see Normal Logging in the Windows Installer Logging section.