Predeployment Custom Properties; Predeployment Test Identifiers - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

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Chapter 20: Analyzing Installations Prior to Deployment

Predeployment Test Reference

Predeployment Custom Properties

The Predeployment Test Preparation Wizard adds some custom properties to the test-ready MSI package.

These properties, which are used by the custom actions, can be passed as parameters to msiexec.exe to override

their values in the

Table 20-13 • Predeployment Custom Properties

PDTESTSTORUN

PDWEBSERVICEURL

The following terms identify the tests that are run during Predeployment testing:

LaunchCondition

CreateFolder

DotNetFramework

FileAssociation

FileConflicts

RegConflicts

A comma separated list of the above identifiers is saved as a property, PDTestsToRun, in the test-ready

package. This property value is then used by the custom actions to determine the tests to run during the analysis.

The list of tests in the PDTestsToRun property populates the list shown on the

Comma separated list of deployment and conflict test identifiers to run. See

Predeployment Test Identifiers

asterisk (*), it indicates that all the tests will be run.

This list populates the list shown on the

Panel. The selections made on this panel are saved in an XML file (PDTests.xml in

the Support subfolder of the AdminStudio program folder) so that the same test

selections are displayed the next time the wizard is run.

The descriptive test identifier.

The original Windows Installer

Web Service URL where the Predeployment Test results will be posted.

for a list of these tests. If this property value is an

Deployment & Conflict Test Selection

package file.

Deployment & Conflict Test Selection

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