New Properties in Windows Installer 4.0 and later
Found this very useful post in msiblogger.com and would like to keep a note for myself so posting it here. Thanks to msiblogger for this. Microsoft has released Windows Installer Service 4.0 with Windows Vista. This new version of msi engine introduces some new properties which are exclusively available to msi based installations targeted for Windows Vista & later. MSIARPSETTINGSIDENTIFIER – The MSIARPSETTINGSIDENTIFIER property contains a semi-colon delimited list of the registry locations where the application stores a user’s settings and preferences. During an operating system upgrade, this information can be used by the setup to improve the experience of users migrating applications. MsiLogging – This property can be used to enable automatic logging within the msi package. This propety value can be set to MSI logging parameters within the property table. Some valid values of this property would be: iwe, iwearcmpvo. Setting this property is the same as running your msi package...