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August 21
VSeWss 1.2 Vista and 64 bit

Sorry this post is a little later after VSeWSS 1.2 came out, but it has taken me a little while to get to it.  Anyway, like so many others, the release of VSeWSS 1.2 for VS 2008 excited me, however, I was quickly disappointed when I found out I still couldn’t install it on a 64 bit OS or on a OS that didn’t have at least WSSv3 installed.  So I had to figure out how to fix this.  Fortunately I ran across an excellent blog post here.  After following the steps in this post, you will be able to install VSeWSS 1.2 on any OS regardless of if WSSv3 or MOSS is installed.

 

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    VSeWss 1.2 Vista and 64 bit

    Thanks alot man.  That worked like a charm.
    Benjamin.SteginkNo presence information on 3/21/2011 5:24 PM

    VSeWss 1.2 Vista and 64 bit

    In order to do this you will need to download the ORCA msi editor available here.
    Step 1. Download the VseWss12.exe from Microsoft site.

    Step 2. In  a command prompt window, navigation to the directory where you downloaded the extensions. Once there you will need to extract MSI from the executable you downloaded. You can do that with the following command

    VSeWSSv12.exe /extract:c:\extractedVSE\

    Step 3. Once extracted, you will notice that there should be a file named VSeWSSv12.msi in your extracted location. This is not the file that we will be running through ORCA to remove some of the 64 bit dependencies.

    Step 4. Start ORCA.exe and open the file VSeWSSv12.msi from the extracted location.

    Step 5. Once the msi is loaded into ORCA you should see the following.

    Step 6. Navigate to the CustomAction node in the left hand column and select it. You should see the following

    Step 7. In order to get enable 64 bit installation you will need two delete two keys located in the Custom Actions key.
    a. Delete the X64System key shown on the right hand side of the application.
    b. Delete the WssNotInstalled key shown on the right hand side of the application.

    Step 8. After deleting the specified key, you will need to save the changes back to the MSI. You can do this by Selecting the File->Save menu within the ORCA tool.

    Once you have saved the MSI you can now execute it like you would any MSI application. Here are some screen shots of the fully functioning VSeWSSv12 extension installation.
    Benjamin.SteginkNo presence information on 3/21/2011 5:24 PM

    VSeWss 1.2 Vista and 64 bit

    That blog that you linked to is no longer there.  By any chance do you remember the directions?
    Benjamin.SteginkNo presence information on 3/21/2011 5:24 PM