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Use PowerShell to get the Current Username and Sid from an Elevated Session

This post shows how to use PowerShell to get the current username and sid from an elevated session. Typically speaking, if you were running powershell.exe as an elevated user and typed $env:USERNAME you would see the username of the elevated...

April 5, 2023

MSI Application Packaging

Configuring Excel Automation Add-ins with VBScript

This is a replica (with better formatting) of a post I made over at ITNinja (or AppDeploy back then!) several years ago which discusses configuring Excel automation add-ins. I’m not even sure if it still works but it’s great as...

October 22, 2019

MSI Application Packaging

Repackaging a PDF Printer Driver

I’ve been working on a PDF printer driver recently. It was installed as part of another product – a crumby old InstallShield setup.exe that didn’t install or uninstall silently (and response files didn’t work). As such this blog post will...

June 28, 2019

MSI Application Packaging

InstallShield Could Not Find File

My current client uses the standalone InstallShield repackager to snapshot applications on virtual machines. When we copy the captured project back to the host machine and try to build the project, we sometimes see an error where InstallShield could not...

February 6, 2018

MSI (Windows Installer) Custom Actions VBScript

Clean Up the Windows Start Menu

Sometimes after installing a setup.exe with limited command line switches, we may want to clean up the Windows start menu. Usually as part of our Application Packaging best practises we remove ‘Uninstall’ shortcuts, ‘Update’ shortcuts, and shortcuts to readme’s and...

January 12, 2018

MSI Application Packaging

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 3)

This post continues from part 1 of the driver signing series found here and part 2 of the series found here. Part 3 of our driver signing guide deviates slightly from the self-signed certificate approach. My current client uses Active Directory...

July 27, 2017

MSI Application Packaging

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 2)

This post continues from part 1 of the driver signing series which can be found here. Part 3 of the series can be found here. It’s been a while since I looked at signing un-signed drivers I must admit. In...

April 29, 2016

MSI Application Packaging

Create a Symbolic Link from a Custom Action

Creating a symbolic link can be achieved using the MKLINK internal command. Internal commands are native to the windows command shell and are NOT executable files. As such, we must call these commands via the windows command shell as follows:...

August 25, 2015

MSI Application Packaging

Create a URL Shortcut using the IniFile table

With a Windows Installer there are a couple of ways we can create a URL shortcut, but I like to create a URL shortcut using the IniFile table. In this example, we create a file called ‘Alkane App.url’ on the...

August 13, 2015

MSI (Windows Installer) Custom Actions

Access a Windows Installer property in a Deferred Custom Action

Description: This post describes how to access a Windows Installer property in a Deferred Custom Action. Deferred, commit, and rollback custom actions can only access a limited number of built-in Windows Installer properties – CustomActionData, ProductCode, and UserSID. In brief...

October 30, 2014

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Category: MSI Application Packaging

Use PowerShell to get the Current Username and Sid from an Elevated Session

Configuring Excel Automation Add-ins with VBScript

Repackaging a PDF Printer Driver

InstallShield Could Not Find File

Clean Up the Windows Start Menu

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 3)

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 2)

Create a Symbolic Link from a Custom Action

Create a URL Shortcut using the IniFile table

Access a Windows Installer property in a Deferred Custom Action

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