Okay, revisiting this question with my own answer providing nice little VB script that will do all heavy lifting. As mentioned in the original question, the aim was provide a simple solution for sysadmin users to make the updates/changes themselves. Below is a simplified version of the code I’m currently providing to customers Option Explicit … Read more
I just want to add some more specific technical information on the Windows Installer technology itself, and some of the history leading up to the creation of the WiX toolkit since this post may be found by people who are just getting into the field of installers, WiX and Windows Installer. This is intended as … Read more
Microsoft Orca: If you have Visual Studio installed, try searching for Orca-x86_en-us.msi – under Program Files (x86) – and install it. Then find Orca in the start menu. Current path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17763.0\x86 Change version numbers as appropriate About MSI Files Roughly speaking MSI files are COM-structured storage files – essentially a file system … Read more