[Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla official MSI installers available on Nightly

[Alexandre Gauvrit]

Hi there,

I have tried to deploy the beta Firefox MSI and found several things :

  * Installation goes well when doing it manually.
  * Overwriting an exisiting *.exe installation goes well, no conflicts

If I try to install it silently/automatically using a deployment tool I 
have several issues with the *.msi file properties :

  * "ProductCode" property must be equal to the registry uninstallkey
    'Mozilla Firefox 65.0a1 x64 fr', not to a random UID (or maybe you
    want to change that behavior and use UID ?)
  * "ProductVersion" property must be equal to actual Mozilla Firefox
    version, not "0.0.0.0"
  * "ProductLanguage" must be filled with a correct value like 1033 /
    1036 etc.

On why those properties must be correctly filled :

  * it's easier for deployment tools to retrieve version
    number/uninstallkey from the MSI file as it's a standard to have it
    set correctly in MSI files
  * it allows deployment tools to verify the good status of installation
    after the installation by checking these values in registry

Here is the current Firefox MSI properties Json output :

{'DESKTOP_SHORTCUT': 'true',
  'EXTRACT_DIR': '__DEFAULT__',
  'INSTALL_DIRECTORY_NAME': '__DEFAULT__',
  'INSTALL_DIRECTORY_PATH': '__DEFAULT__',
  'INSTALL_MAINTENANCE_SERVICE': 'true',
  'Manufacturer': 'Mozilla',
  'OPTIONAL_EXTENSIONS': 'true',
  'PREVENT_REBOOT_REQUIRED': 'false',
  'ProductCode': '{1294A4C5-9977-480F-9497-C0EA1E630130}',
  'ProductLanguage': '0',
  'ProductName': 'Mozilla Firefox 65.0a1 x64 fr',
  'ProductVersion': '0.0.0.0',
  'REMOVE_DISTRIBUTION_DIR': 'true',
  'START_MENU_SHORTCUT': 'true',
  'TASKBAR_SHORTCUT': 'true',
  'UpgradeCode': '{3118AB4C-B433-4FBB-B9FA-8F9CA4B5C103}'}

Final question, is '-ms' argument really necessary ? Do you keep it for 
legacy purpose or just for fun ?

Cheers

Alexandre

On 28/11/2018 14:53, Romain Testard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We recently started to make MSI installers (wrappers of the full exe 
> installer) available as part of our build/release process in order to 
> help make Windows enterprise deployments simpler. These are now 
> available on Nightly and will be riding the trains to release with 
> Firefox 65 (will also be available on our next ESR).
>
> You can find documentation here 
> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-customization-msi-installers> 
> (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-customization-msi-installers) 
> that helps understand how to customize Firefox installations with the 
> MSI installers and it would be great if people on this list who find 
> MSI installers valuable on their deployments could start testing it. 
> Feedback can be provided on this list if valuable for all, on bugzilla 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Installer> 
> for technical issues or directly to me otherwise.
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Romain
>
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