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For Admins: Windows Installer Log Search Terms  rss

Windows Installer Log Search Terms

The following search terms allow you to locate key information in a Windows Installer Log file. 

Looking for:

Search Term (do not include double quotes, do include spaces that occur in the quotes)

Feature and component states (Top of list)

“Feature: “

Find out if package was installed as “managed”

“is managed”

Find All Computer Policies (press search again key to forward through list)

“Machine Policy”

Find All User Policies (press search again key to forward through list)

“User Policy”

Find a Specific Policy (include single quotes before and after name)

“’PolicyName’”

Properties List (Top of list)

“ProductCode =”

Product Code, Product Name, Product Version (at top of properties list)

“ProductCode =”

Computer Name

“ComputerName =”

User ID

“LogonUser =”

Was user an Admin? (not found indicates user was not an admin)

“AdminUser = 1”

Was Installation run with elevated privileges? (not found indicates no elevated privileges)

“IsPrivileged = 1”

Per-Machine or Per-User Install? (not found indicates Per-User)

“ALLUSERS = 1”

Windows Version

  • Windows 95 value will be: blank or “950” or “1111”
  • Windows 98 value will be: “1998” or “2222”
  • Windows ME value will be: “3000.1”
  • Windows NT 4 value will be: “1381”
  • Windows 2000 value will be: “2195”
  • Windows XP value will be: “2526”

“WindowsBuild =”

Windows Installer Version

In first line of log.

Specific Standard or Custom Action

Action Name

Adding Registry Keys

“Executing op: RegAddValue”

Creating Shortcuts

“Executing op: ShortcutCreate”

Copying Files

“Executing op: FileCopy”

Creating File Extension Mappings

“Executing op: RegExtensionInfoRegister”

Create cached copy of MSI

“Executing op: DatabaseCopy”

Location of MSI that was installed

“OriginalDatabase =”

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