Windows Installer - Install

FinalBuilder Discussion
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Hi, I'm very new to FinalBuilder and I understood I could use it to run an .MSI on a remote machine.

I'm using the "Windows Installer - Install" action and have the package location pointing to a location on my FB server.

I then fill in the details on the WMI connection tab with the Remote Machine details.

When I run this action I get

"Failed to install MSI Package. The system cannot find the path specified."

I've tried all sorts of flavours for the package location such as mapping a drive, inputting the path as if I was on the remote machine, entering the path as a UNC path, etc but I get the same error.

Can anyone tell me how to get this working?

Regards,

Jon

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Hi Jon

When using the Windows Installer action to install a package on a remote machine, the path to the package must be in a location accessible to the remote machine.

Does this work if you copy the MSI to C:\Temp on the remote machine, update the action accordingly and then run the action from FinalBuilder?

Regards,
Steve

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Many thanks Steve. I had originally put it on the D: drive (and this didn’t work), but for some reason putting it in C:\TEMP worked.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Jon

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No problems, glad you were able to get it working.

Regards,
Steve