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When you can live with support for your installer to Windows Vista+ then you should have a look at the Transaction support of Windows for the registry and NTFS. A very good overview can be found at <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vista/VistaKTM.aspx" rel="nofollow">CodeProject</a>. Yes MSI is very complex but I do think many of your headaches originate from the fact that you are trying to do too much during install. There is a time to do stuff after installing your software. This time is called first startup where you can do complex things like AD deployment with a user interface that is under your full control which is much easier to debug. But I doubt that you will get rollback support done for failed AD changes. A rule of the thumb is that you should not change the AD schema to make your software happy since many customers do forbid schema changes. Manager should read this as: You will loose customers due to AD deployment issues. IT admins can have a big influence what software is bought and which not. If you had problems with MSI it is likely that you hit a wall with not working updates due to unintended MSI component violations. I have done a small <a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2011/06/17/145898.aspx" rel="nofollow">writeup</a> about the issues I have encountered so far. There are also many issues lurking with combined <a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2011/07/02/146056.aspx" rel="nofollow">x32/x64 installations</a>.
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