Is there a tool or mechanism for retrieving the available public properties from a Windows MSI file?
Some vendors that supply MSI files don't document these themselves, so I'm curious to see if there is a way to expose these without the source code.
Windows – Retrieving public properties from an MSI file
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You can change the ACL on the folder in question so that the account running the executable (most likely you) can create, write, edit files in there, but not delete. Two issues:
You would of course possibly cause the program to crash
You will have to regain control of the folder afterwards (take ownership, reset all permissions etc) to be able to delete the files
Best Answer
Lessmsi provides a command line as well as interactive application for retrieving any attribute from the .msi.
Interactively, open the .msi then go to Table view and select or type "Property". However while this gives the property names it doesn't give the valid values for said property.(Or I haven't discovered the right place to look.)
Command line to list Properties table to console (frustratingly, can't be captured with simple
> output.csvredirect)