MsiConfigureServices Action
The MsiConfigureServices action configures a service for the system. This action queries the MsiServiceConfig and the MsiServiceConfigFailureActions tables.
Windows Installer 4.5 or earlier: Not supported. This action is available beginning with Windows Installer 5.0.
Important
Windows Services provides the ability to automatically perform predefined actions in response to a failure in a service. To support programmatically setting up these Recovery Actions when a service fails, MsiServiceConfigFailureActions was added to MSI in version MSI 5.0. However, this functionality is not working as expected.
To workaround this issue, an application developer should use the Custom Action functionality in MSI to run sc.exe and set the Recovery Options appropriately.
Sequence Restrictions
This standard action must be used in the following sequence.
Any of the following actions: InstallFiles, RemoveFiles, DuplicateFiles, MoveFiles, PatchFiles, and RemoveDuplicateFiles actions.
MsiConfigureServices
ActionData Messages
There are no ActionData messages.
Remarks
This action requires that the user be an administrator or have elevated privileges with permission to install services or that the application be part of a managed installation.
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