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These changes were implemented and are addressed in XPP 9.6.

Ideas for optimizing the installation of XPP 9.4.0.0

Hello,

The following suggestions are based on very recent experience installing XPP 9.4.0.0 on Windows Server 2019

RE: Temporary Files Directory (PDF page 8 / 60 in instwin.pdf)

The XPP installation sets the temporary directory path to C:\Windows\Temp. The documentation points out that this folder is not always writable. 

Can the out-of-the-box installation set the XYV_TMPS folder to one of the folders installation creates as part of the install (or the path used for either xz or sd_liz)?

RE: Windows OS Package (PDF page 7 / 60 in instwin.pdf)

A pre-installation check that performs the following would be a nice addition:

  • check for the presence of the C++ 2017 Redistributable package and alert the installer if it's not found.
  • verify that the three UAC settings are set properly:
    • User Account Control slider bar. 
    • local security policy
      (User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode) and
    • registry entry
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA

Thomas Mangan
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  • And on the UAC and XPP installer really getting Administrator permissions discussion, I'll just add that we are investigating whether there's something "missing" in the XPP installer as to it checking/asking for (and getting) real Administrator permissions for the install.

    The install code does have check/abort code that's supposedly checking for Administrator permissions and aborting with a message if that permission is lacking.

    However, we're reading on the web a lot of stuff that seems to indicate that this "check" seems to no longer be working - seemingly since the introduction of UAC and/or the newest versions of Windows.

    It's being worked on as we speak (for the future XPP 9.5 installer) ...

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  • And on the UAC and XPP installer really getting Administrator permissions discussion, I'll just add that we are investigating whether there's something "missing" in the XPP installer as to it checking/asking for (and getting) real Administrator permissions for the install.

    The install code does have check/abort code that's supposedly checking for Administrator permissions and aborting with a message if that permission is lacking.

    However, we're reading on the web a lot of stuff that seems to indicate that this "check" seems to no longer be working - seemingly since the introduction of UAC and/or the newest versions of Windows.

    It's being worked on as we speak (for the future XPP 9.5 installer) ...

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