I have been working on a cool new plugin for Team Foundation Server and decided it was time to run the msi to see how it worked outside of the hive. I created the msi and tried to run it on my Vista machine and found that it kept failing to install. The reason for this is that it was not running as the Admin. When I right-click the msi there was no option to run it as the Admin, so I had to Google around to see what I could find out. I ran across a post (forgot the link) and found that I could kick off the install if I put the command in a batch file and ran that as the admin. Well it worked so here is what I did.
Open Notepad and enter the following:
msiexec /i <enter path to msi>
Save as MyVSPacakge.bat
right-click and select "Run as Administrator"
Thats it. Quite simple to get the install to work now.
Hope this helps
-paul