Software Deployment

A verbose log during install should give you more info to go on.
Is the pnamain.exe installed through the File table?
See you if you can find any CA in the CustomAction table that reference the file.
Is it executed during FULL UI and not Basic UI?

If nothing helps you need to install with verbose logging + Process Monitor and when the pnamain.exe process executes check the timestamp in ProcMon and then check for the same timestamp in the verbose log to find out which CA executes it.

i've found a few instances where it's called, but not sure what any of them mean:

Action:
CtxCallPNAgent.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC (Target empty)
CtxCallPNAgent.Clean.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC (target /Clean)
CtxCallPNAgent.Install.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC (target /Install)
CtxCallPNAgent.Terminate.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC (target /Terminate)

Source:
pnagent.exe.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC (target empty)

They all have that as the source, not sure if I should drop the row, or leave it and use a transform to take care of it. I tried the procmon suggestion but couldn't find anything that was actually calling that file, just that the file started. Probably didn't look close enough. Thanks for the help, new to all of this and it's rather daunting to learn...

I did find in the log file where that CustomAction is called:

MSI (c) (CC:D8) [15:39:12:437]: Doing action: CtxCallPNAgent.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC
Action start 15:39:13: CtxCallPNAgent.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC.
MSI (c) (CC:D8) [15:39:13:156]: Note: 1: 2235 2: 3: ExtendedType 4: SELECT `Action`,`Type`,`Source`,`Target`, NULL, `ExtendedType` FROM `CustomAction` WHERE `Action` = 'CtxCallPNAgent.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC'
Action ended 15:39:17: CtxCallPNAgent.20FBBF0A_A7E5_4BDE_9798_9811C3D135AC. Return value 1.
Action ended 15:39:17: Exit_Dialog. Return value 1.

Gidday,

Couldn't you launch the msi with a "/a" switch? This would give you the Admin install which should configure the msi with an admin configured transform file. You can select which features you require when you run through the setup.
ie.msiexec /a "your msi file"

I believe the Citrix Client Packager is the way to go to create the one Transform file:
Documentation:
http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx116424

Hope this helps
Cheers
Wayne

I actually did that but it still installed the files, not sure why.

I read the admin guide once before but missed the part with the ADDLOCAL options, I'll try that.

Thanks!

well that worked...can't believe it was that easy, I looked for msi options previously but never found any....guess I need to read slower...

this is what I used:

msiexec.exe /I XenAppHosted.msi /qb-! /l*v "ica32_install.log" ADDLOCAL=ICA_Client,PN

Thanks everyone!