Winzip 14.5

[theasc]

Hi,

I have create a Silent Installation of Winzip 14.5 within a Wise Installation System Package (thats necessary because we publish Citrix Application within that)

In that Package I run the wz145gpro.msi with the parameter: ADDDESKTOPICON=0 ADDMENUGROUP=0 ADDSTARTMENU=0 INSTALLCMD="/noqp /noc4u /notip /autoinstall"

If I run the Wise Exe Interactively everything works fine and Winzip is installed like i wish. But we use Software Distribution System which installs the Wise Packages with a windows service. And if this service runs the package the package fails. It just hangs.

If I check the MSI Log I see that the last action the MSI does is the following:

MSI (s) (B4:10) [22:43:20:593]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=DoInstall,ActionType=3090,Source=C:\Program Files (x86)\WinZip\WINZIP32.EXE,Target=/noqp /noc4u /notip /nodesktop /nostartmenu /nomenugroup /autoinstall,)

After that nothing happens.

When I look with procexp I see that the process winzip32.exe runs underneath msiexec.exe and is still open with the command "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinZip\WINZIP32.EXE" /noqp /noc4u /notip /nodesktop /nostartmenu /nomenugroup /autoinstall.

I have now repackage the hole thing: Extracted the winzip folder and directly run winzip32.exe with the parameters but the result is the same. Winzip32.exe hangs.

Unfortunately Winzip Support says, if it works interactively their MSI is fine. But I have about 200 Packages working with that Software Distribution over the Service.

I've run a PROCMON to capture everything from winzip32.exe when ran over the service but I don't see errors.

Any Idea how to debug this things?

Is it possible to make the process visibile when ran from a service?

Thanks in forward!

Edited July 10, 2010 by theasc