Can an installer be run without administrative privileges?

[Guest]

Hi!
I had asked a similar question before but I am still lost. We have a
solution with the setup project and installer component. The custom action in
the installer component builds the needed cab files. Now, the msi file that
needs to run on the client computer in order to deploy it to the device
(Pocket PC 2003) via activesync requires administrative privileges.
Is there a way around it? How can a user without administrative privileges
be able to run the installer?
Eventually, we will be using FinalBuilder for automated builds and would
like to separate out the installer component from the main solution. This
will help in generating the cab files separately and then we might offer
those via web.

Can I use a self-extracting exe(with the cab files) that deploys the cab
files on the device without requiring administrative privileges or .NET
framework on a client's computer?

If anyone has any suggestions or resources with more information, please post.
Thank you for your time.
Regards,
Raj

 

[Neville Lang]

Raj,

You might try posting this to the microsoft.public.windows.msi newsgroup. I
have had some good responses on that newsgroup in the past for my MSI
questions.

Regards,
Neville Lang