1: How do you find out if there are no permissions?

A: Use filemon for finding permissions for files and use regmon for registries if you use either filemon or regmon then you Will get access denied errors from that you can say that for those files and registries which there are access denied errors For those we have to give permissions. Note: we will do the above usage whenever a shortcut is not launching when launched in user mode but the shortcut works Perfectly in admin mode. 2: If we have to install two or more features then what will you do? A: Use ADDLOCAL like :: msiexec /i "path of the msi" ADDLOCAL="Feature1,feature2,feature3" 3: What is INSTALLLEVEL? A: INSTALLLEVEL defines which features are selected to install during installation and this can be done through Feature Table, if the level of any particular feature is in between 3 to 100 then that feature installs and if the feature has level Less than 3 like 0,1 and 2 then that feature is disabled and will not be installed during installation. 4: If we want the application not to be displayed in add or remove programs what will you do? A: UseARPSYSTEMCOMPONENTS=1 ARPNOMODIFY=1 is to hide modify button in add or remove programs ARPNOREPAIR=1 is to hide repair button in add or remove programs ARPNOREMOVE=1 is to hide remove button in add or remove programs. 5: how do you register a dll? A: using regsvr32.exe "path of the dll" or by using wisecomcapture we will register and extract the registries then we will Add them to our msi. 6: what is ALLUSERS? A: ALLUSERS = 0 per user installation, installs but will work for current user only for other user it will not. = 1 per machine installation, installs and works for all users who ever logs in to the machine = 2 depending on the logged in user previliges if the logged in user is standard user then it will install on per user basis if the current logged in user is administrator then the application will install on per machine basis.

7: what is system search and appsearch? A : System search is a search criteria using by which we can search for a folder or we can search for a file or we can search for some specific registry. AppSearch is the search criteria by which we can search for a file by defining folder depth and also by defining folder path directly. 8: what are the tables that are used for APPSEACRH name them? A : There are five tables which are used for APPSERACH. They are 1) Signature 2) AppSearch 3) DrLocator 4) RegLocator 5) CompLocator 9: MSI Installation switches (Command Line Options) A : /i for installation /x for un-installation /f for repair /l*v for l-log file and v-verbose log creation.