WIX enable Windows feature

Question

I have to check if some windows features are enabled beore installing my software.

I can check it or install it using dism command line tool.

I create a cust

Answer 1

David Gardiner's answer hinted at the correct solution in my case. Creating your own custom action is not necessary. Here is how to do it for a 64 bit installation of Windows:

First determine if MSMQ is installed:

Declare your custom actions. You need two. One to set a property to the path to dism, and another to execute it:

Finally specify the custom actions in the install sequence:

  
  NOT REMOVE AND NOT MSMQINSTALLED 

Because this can take a little bit of time I've added the following to update the installer status text:

 
  Installing MSMQ 
 

You can also specify a rollback action if you want to remove MSMQ on installation failure.