PC-DMIS refuses to install without a valid license in /qn mode; its
BA / MSI custom actions ProcessLicensingFromBundle (which spins for
~13 minutes trying to activate against licensing.wilcoxassoc.com)
and IsLicenseDateValid (which errors 1603 when no license file is
present) are the gate. Bypassed by dark-extracting the chained MSIs
from each Burn bundle and pre-patching both custom actions'
InstallExecuteSequence.Condition columns to '0' via Windows
Installer COM SQL UPDATE. The patched MSIs install cleanly with no
license, PCDLRN.exe loads at runtime, hits its own runtime license
check, and shows the normal "no license" dialog. Tech activates via
clmadmin.exe post-imaging and PC-DMIS launches normally.
- playbook/preinstall/preinstall.json: adds VC++ 2010 x64 and VC++
2012 x64 redistributable entries scoped to all PC types. PC-DMIS
links msvcr100.dll / mfc100u.dll (VS 2010) and msvcr110.dll /
mfc110u.dll (VS 2012); without these the exe gets DLL_NOT_FOUND
(0xC0000135) at launch. Win11 ships VC++ 2022 (covers 2015+) but
not 2010/2012, so we ship these from the dark-extracted bundle
payloads. Small (~13 MB combined), inert on PCs that don't need
them, so the filter is "*".
- playbook/shopfloor-setup/CMM/cmm-manifest.json: version 2.0.
Drops the bundle EXEs, installs patched MSIs directly with
properly quoted INSTALLFOLDER / APPLICATIONFOLDER paths (the
earlier "hangs" were caused by Start-Process splitting unquoted
paths on spaces, not actual msiexec hangs). Skips the chained
CLM Tools 1.5/1.7 MSIs - CLM 1.8.73 standalone provides the same
interfaces and PC-DMIS MSIs have no LaunchCondition requiring
Tools 1.5 / 1.7 specifically. Keeps Protect Viewer from the 2019
R2 bundle as a separate entry. CLM 1.8 and goCMM bundles run
unpatched (no install-time license check).
- playbook/sync-cmm.sh: now also includes *.msi files in the
upload set, not just *.exe.
Known caveats: patched MSIs have HashMismatch signatures (expected
- Windows Installer accepts them in /qn mode on locally-cached
machines). Every Hexagon bundle version bump requires re-dark-
extracting and re-patching. Unsupported by Hexagon; do not call
them for install-related issues without reverting to the original
bundles first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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