How to Install Per-User Files for All Users (via ActiveSetup)

UPDATE: This support article address the PACE Suite versions up to 5.0. For the newer versions please check the Getting started guide. 

This article describes how to add per-user files to the existing MSI package and install these and other per-user files for all users via Active Setup. Note that Active Setup is a standard Windows Installer solution for installing the current user data.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Launch MSI Editor.
   
2. Select Open… from MENU
   
3. Choose an MSI package, which you want to modify, and click Open.
   
4. For importing per-user files to the package open the Files tab.
   
5. Lets add the AppData per-user folder, which is represented as MSI standard directory property - AppDataFolder. For this, click Add > System folders.
6. Select the AppDataFolder and click Add.
   
7. To create a sub-folder under the AppData folder, select New subfolder from the context menu of the AppDataFolder.
   
8. Enter a sub-folder name and click Add.
   
9. For importing per-user files, select Import files from the context menu of the existing or created per-user folder.
   
10. Click Add > Add files.
    
11. Select per-user files, which you need to import and click Open.
    
    
12. Click Next >.
    
13. If necessary, change the default import files settings and click Next >.
    
14. Click Finish to complete the import.
    
15. Finally, add the ActiveSetup registry entry that will secure installing per-user files for every user. For this, go to the Features/Components tab and select a component that contains registry entries. Just for this example, we will use 'CurrentUser_files1' component, created during the file import, but in general, we recommend to use per-machine components and do not mix per-user and per-machine data in one component. Expand the selected component.
    
16. Click on Registry of the selected component and then select New row from the context menu of the right pane.
    
17. Fill-in all fields as described below and click Ok.
    Registry: ActiveSetup
    Root: 2
    Key: Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\[ProductCode]
    Name: StubPath
    Value: msiexec /fups [ProductCode] /qb
    
18. Select Save from MENU to save your MSI package.
    
19. After installing MSI package, log-out from your user-account and log-in back to let ActiveSetup copy the necessary per-user files.

Find more information about Active Setup at http://www.itninja.com/question/active-setup-configuration