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[Msiuser]

My installer works fine in XP. Do I need to rebuild with Vista SDK for
installer to work in vista..I am facing issue in installing it on Vista
Beta1. Any help in this regard is appreciated.

[Stefan Krueger]

No, in general an .msi file created for MSI 2.x or 3.x should work fine on Vista (with MSI 4.x). Can you describe your problem in more detail? What's failing, how does it fail, do you get any error messages, did you generate a verbose log?

[Msiuser]

I am installing the product by calling the msi from setup. The call MSIInstallProduct() is failing which works fine on XP for the same binary..The error is 'Fatal error during installation'.

[Stefan Krueger]

Can you try with msiexec and a verbose log?

[Msiuser]

Ran through msiexec. msiexec /j <.msi> /log <logfile> Getting the following error:"You must have administrator rights to run this installation. Please login as an administrator and re-run this installation", even though the user has admin rights. This happens for XP as well. But, when ran through setup, the complete installation goes through fine in XP which is not working in Vista Beta 1.

[Stefan Krueger]

In Vista accounts are locked down by default, maybe even the admin account. It may neeed to be elevated. I don't recall all the details but look for LUA instalaltions in the SDK or MSDN.