To give you a background - I have a 4 MSI\'s which comes from our vendor and this has to go to our company servers (we are looking at around 3500 servers). As of now, my cou
There is a fourth option, a useful lightweight hack, identified by Vijay Kotecha (see http://vijayskotecha.blogspot.com/2013/07/wix-bootstrapper-custom-action.html),...
Essentially, build an around a pass-through .bat or .cmd batch file. The batch/command file contains the single line '%*' which re-executes all of the command line arguments as a first class command.
Thus:
Where WixCustomAction.cmd is a file containing only '%*'.
These can be placed into the successively as needed using different InstallCommands as needed.