B1DE Professional Installer Problem on win 2008 srv

Question

Hi all, I found a problem in the B1DE 2.1 Professional Installer, B1 8.8.
In some machine with win2008 server installed, you need to run B1 as Administrator, and the Setup fails because Custom Actions runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM instead as the logged user
So:
1) SubMain in the Installer project creates the registry Key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SAP\SAP Manage\SAP Business One\InstallAddOn\MyPartner\MyAddOn key, as the logged user. In this key SubMain stores two path separated by the u201C|u201C  character.
2) CustomInstallerClass is executed at the end of the setup, try to read the previous written key but as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM user, and obviously fails to read because HKEY_CURRENT_USER key is different than HKEY_CURRENT_USER at step 1)
3) You have an error u201DIndex out of Rangeu201D because the CustomInstallerClass try to split the readed string and to return the second path, but the readed string is an empty string
I modified the CustomInstallerClass to search other keys (e.g. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{6048236A-956D-498D-A6F1-9C81C13AB6E8}\8.8\0\win32) if the requested key was not found, but this is a dirty solution I donu2019t like much.
Any other Ideas?
Regards
Marco

Answer 1

Hi Marco,
Just my two cents worth but I never use the 'Professional' installer due to issues with getting it to install on terminal services. I always use the more primitive project (called 'SAP B1 AddonInstaller .NET Wizard') . The installer screens do look a bit ugly (though with the source code you can of course invest the time to make it look more professional). I've never had issues with this installer as long as I've compiled for a x86 target CPU.
Kind Regards,
Owen