CR 2008 .msi Deployment

Question

I set Crystal Reports 2008 as a prerequisite when deploying a Visual Studion 2008 application.  With the original 2008 .msi file this worked great.  The Crystal Reports runtime installed as expected.
Since CR 2008 is now up to SP1, I replaced the original msi file with CRRuntime_12_1_mlb.msi.  I rebuilt my setup application.  The new msi file was packaged with the setup as expected.  However, when I run the setup program I get the EULA (and I press Accept) then I get the message that setup terminates with a error.  The error is
the publisher of CRRuntime_12_1_mlb.msi cannot be verified.
Is there a way to get the SP1 msi to behave like the original msi and install correctly.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue when attempting to add the msi as a prerequisite.
- I used the CRRuntime_12_1_mlb.exe instead and it worked fine.
- You'll need to modify your product.xml file so it looks like what I have below.
You can download the CRRuntime_12_1_mlb.exe from [here|https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100006561812009E/cr2008sp1_redinst_rfrsh.zip].
See note [1353836 |https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/notes]when it is published to the SDN.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Product  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/2004/01/bootstrapper"  ProductCode="BusinessObjects.CrystalReports12.NET.2.0">  <!-- Defines list of files to be copied on build --> 
     <PackageFiles>
          <PackageFile Name="CRRuntime_12_1_mlb.exe" />
     </PackageFiles>
  <RelatedProducts>
  <DependsOnProduct Code="Microsoft.Net.Framework.2.0" />
       <DependsOnProduct Code="Microsoft.Data.Access.Components.2.8" />
  </RelatedProducts>
  <InstallChecks>
       <RegistryCheck Property="CRBuildNum" Key="HKLMSOFTWAREBusiness ObjectsSuite 12.0Crystal Reports" Value="BuildNum" />
  </InstallChecks>
  <Commands Reboot="Defer">
       <Command PackageFile="CRRuntime_12_1_mlb.exe"
       Arguments=' /quiet pidkey=A1234-B123456-C123456-D123'
       EstimatedInstalledBytes="50000000"
       EstimatedInstallSeconds="220">
      <!-- These checks determine whether the package is to be installed -->
      <InstallConditions>
        <!-- ByPass if the BuildNum is the same -->
        <BypassIf Property="CRBuildNum" Compare="ValueExists"/>
        <!-- Block install if user does not have admin privileges -->
        <FailIf Property="AdminUser" Compare="ValueEqualTo" Value="false" String="AdminRequired"/>
        <!-- Block install on Win95 -->
        <FailIf Property="Version9x" Compare="VersionLessThan" Value="4.10" String="InvalidPlatformWin9x"/>
        <!-- Block install on NT 4 or less -->
        <FailIf Property="VersionNT" Compare="VersionLessThan" Value="5.00" String="InvalidPlatformWinNT"/>
      </InstallConditions>
      <ExitCodes>
      <ExitCode Value="0" Result="Success"/>
      <ExitCode Value="1641" Result="SuccessReboot"/>        <ExitCode Value="3010" Result="SuccessReboot"/>        <DefaultExitCode Result="Fail" FormatMessageFromSystem="true" String="GeneralFailure" />      </ExitCodes>
         </Command>
    </Commands>
</Product>