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Prompt for a Reboot After Install

Summary

how to prompt for a reboot after install.

Synopsis

This Knowledge Base article will show how you can add a reboot prompt at the end of an MSI installation.

Discussion

A user can prompt to reboot the computer after install by setting the condition of the ScheduleReboot standard action. To do this, you can take a look at the following steps...
1.) Under Custom Actions and Sequences in the Execute Sequence should be a standard action named ScheduleReboot.
The default condition for the action is a Property ISSCHEDULEREBOOT.
2.) You can simply set the condition to 1 if you wish to reboot after every time the install runs. Or you can programmatically create InstallScript scenarios to change the property to true only in certain instances.

Additional Information

Example:
MsiSetProperty(ISMSI_HANDLE,"ISSCHEDULEREBOOT","TRUE");
Or Condtionally:
if (szValue = TRUE) then
MsiSetProperty(ISMSI_HANDLE,"ISSCHEDULEREBOOT","TRUE");
endif;
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Prompt for a Reboot After Install