How to run a vbscript in wix burn ExePackage?

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I need to make some changes in an xml file after I've installed a couple of MSI. For that I was thinking calling a vbscript using the bat file with the %* trick. My problem is that I get an 0X80070001 error, but when I run the script manually it works fine.

Code in chain:

<ExePackage
              Id="CultureChange"
              SourceFile="run.bat"
              DisplayName="Changing Default Language"
              InstallCommand='cscript Script.vbs "[DefaultCulture]"'
              PerMachine="yes"
              Cache="yes"
              Compressed="yes">
    <Payload SourceFile="Script.vbs"/>
</ExePackage>

I also tried calling cscript with C:\windows\SysNative\cscript.exe but same result.

log:

Applying execute package: CultureChange, action: Install, path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\1608BB75347CD8C40187E5F3C0A969ED73A98D51\run.bat, arguments: '"C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\1608BB75347CD8C40187E5F3C0A969ED73A98D51\run.bat" C:\windows\SysNative\cscript.exe Script.vbs "it-IT"'
Error 0x80070001: Process returned error: 0x1
Error 0x80070001: Failed to execute EXE package.
Error 0x80070001: Failed to configure per-machine EXE package.

Also note that the MSI can't be modified so I can't make the changes in the xml file there.

Update:

I gave a solution that worked on Windows 8.1 but when I tested it on Windows 7 it still gave me the same error. here is the code:

@echo off
pushd %~dp0
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c cscript Script.vbs "%1"

I also found some documentation on the error:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd319335(v=vs.85).aspx

A write request was made to a resource on the device that was opened in Read mode using IPortableDeviceResources::GetStream, or a read request was made to a resource opened for Write or Create.

I watched the vbscript file and it was never accessed. Anyway, I went with editing the xml file in my managed bootstrapper in c# and not trying to run the vbscript but I'm leaving this question open since it's not really a good enough solution.

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asked on Stack Overflow Oct 4, 2016 by Nicolas Clement • edited Oct 11, 2016 by Nicolas Clement

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