[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox msi detection in SCCM

Timo Pietilä timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
Fri Oct 25 09:28:06 UTC 2019


AFAIK that is by design. That msi is exe-wrapper and after install there 
is no trace that it was installed using .msi. You can't uninstall it 
using msiexec /x {productcode} either.

You need to treat it like if it were installed using .exe.

Timo Pietilä

On 25.10.2019 11.52, William Spratt wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> So with the 68.2 ESR release, I thought I’d try pushing it out with the 
> new .msi installer.
> 
> We use SCCM to push out Firefox, and this has worked fine with the .exe 
> versions, manually configuring SCCM  to check the file version of 
> "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" to verify the 
> install/update was successful. When we import the 68.2 .msi into SCCM, 
> it does handy things like automatically populate the install detection 
> method to check for {1294A4C5-9977-480F-9497-C0EA1E630130} in the msi 
> directory.  Unfortunately, while the Firefox .msi runs successfully, 
>   installing/updating to 68.2, it doesn’t detect that reference in the 
> .msi directory.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?  Should I log a bug report?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Will
> 
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