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This may qualify as a stupid question -- or as Chris Berman said, "There are no stupid questions. Only stupid people who ask questions.

I finally have my windows installer where I want it. It loads the dotnet framework semi-silently, installs the main installer along with an automatic upgrade feature

Then, I hit one more snag. Some of the install computers do not have the latest version of windows installer. My question: Is there a neat easy way to automatically check and install the installer if necessary... and then go on with the rest of the install

Eric Fleet
Nov 20 '05 #1
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Eric Fleet wrote:
This may qualify as a stupid question -- or as Chris Berman said,
"There are no stupid questions. Only stupid people who ask
questions."

I finally have my windows installer where I want it. It loads the
dotnet framework semi-silently, installs the main installer along
with an automatic upgrade feature.

Then, I hit one more snag. Some of the install computers do not have
the latest version of windows installer. My question: Is there a neat
easy way to automatically check and install the installer if
necessary... and then go on with the rest of the install?


Locate %WinDir%\System32\msiexec.exe and check the file version. If it's not
the (newer than) the version you want, install InstMsiW.exe on WinNT/2000,
and InstMsiA.exe on Win9x/Me. Both files can be found on the Microsoft
website, in the download center.

--
Sven Groot

http://unforgiven.bloghorn.com

Nov 20 '05 #2

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