Package and Deployement

[DaveCF]

I’ve come to the mundane part of the application life cycle that is “Package And Deployment”. The problem is when my users try to use the installation program they get a error prompt as they do no have administration rights to their machine.

The problem is the project sponsor wants ordinary users to be able to install this package, and I have authorization off the I.T. support people to do this, however can not find any way of customising the install package to allow this, any ideas?

Many thanks
Dave.

[suprize]

Are you using the standard VisualStudios Packager? Sometimes theres things you can tweak in the Setup.lst file that is created when you create the cab. But perhaps you might look into an MSI packager instead that may give you the option your looking for.

[iDxMan]

You may want to look at Inno (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). It's a free installer for windows.

ISTool (http://www.istool.org/default.aspx/) is also a nice front end to INNO.

-r

[stuka]

Normal users won't be able to install a LOT of things on an even halfway locked down Win2K/XP box, particularly to the Program Files area, or the %WINROOT%\System (or System32) folder, where DLL's typically live. For a 'normal' user to do ANYTHING, you'd probably need an app that lived ONLY in their own folders - starting in C:\Documents and Settings\username.