Built installer fails - older version of winMIF

[AEI_JR]

I applied this update, and successfully built an installer.  Running the installer to test it on another PC has broken the ActiveX link between LabVIEW Report Generation and MS Office.  Is this expected?  Should I re-install MS Office to repair?  In the past, having this link broken has been insiduous to repair, sometimes not successfully.

[breezy45]

The support article posted worked for me when this error came up on all my installers, easy fix.

[AEI_JR]

UPDATE:

It was necessary to have our IT re-install MS Office to fix the ActiveX links.  After that, no issue. 

I had concerns this would cause trouble with my customer's PCs if I deployed it remotely, so it was necessary to ship the systems here to run the new installer and test.  No issues were found.

[Andromeda]

I downloaded and ran the installer that is supposed to upgrade the low level packages to prevent this problem.

Unfortunately, when I re-launch LabVIEW 2013 sp1 and re-build the installer, I still get the same error when I attempt to install the built application. And yes, there is a reason that this application is built using LV 2013 SP1.

[Scott_Richardson]

John, what OS are you building the installer on and what OS are you installing the installer on?

[Andromeda]

Thanks for asking.

I'm building in Windows 10 (in a VM), and installing to either Windows 10 or 11.

[Scott_Richardson]

John, I did the following testing:

1. On a new Win 11 OS VM I installed LV 2013 SP1, NIPM 23.3, and TestStand 2021 SP1 (so that I could depend on a product that requires .NET framework).
2. I created a LabVIEW built installer that includes the TestStand runtime.
3. When running built installer on new Win 11 OS I hit .NET 4.8 issue outlined by this forum post.
4. I repeated step (2) after installing the KB installer, and in step (3) I did NOT hit .NET 4.8 issue.

Can you look at your installer and you should see the following file in the bin directory structure and in Explorer the file properties shows the version as 23.3?, e.g.,

If the above looks correct for you, the next step might be to potentially share the installer with us to review.

[Elaine_Yang]

I also have same question. My LabVIEW version is 2020 SP1. I'm building in Windows 10 Enterprise edition, and installing to Windows 10 Professional edition. I already install "NI ADE Deployment Support", but still get the same error when I attempt to install the built application.

btw, my "MetaUninstaller" version is 20.6.0.

[WesW]

@Andromeda and @Elaine_Yang

Please try the following and post back here:

1. Download the "NI ADE Deployment Support.zip" from the KB posted earlier, unzip it, and run the installer.
2. Confirm that it says "No operation to be performed", which should look like this:
   
3. If it does not show the above message, but appears to install some packages, please retry your build and install in LabVIEW - as it might be fixed now.
4. If it does show the above message, then run the following command from an admin command-prompt, and attach the file it generated from your temp folder:
   "%ProgramFiles%\National Instruments\NI Package Manager\nipkg.exe" list-installed > %temp%\ni-list-install.txt
5. Also go to the following file in Windows Explorer, right click on it, go to the Details tab, and report the File Version field:
   C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\MDF\BinRTE
   file MetaBuilder.dll
   like this (it should be 23.3 or later):
   
   
   

[Elaine_Yang]

WesW,

Thank you very much. It now can successfully built an installer. You have solved a big trouble for me.