{"id":1893,"date":"2006-11-07T19:11:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T19:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2006\/11\/07\/viewing-patches-in-orca\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T05:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:55:51","slug":"viewing-patches-in-orca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/viewing-patches-in-orca\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing Patches in Orca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am often asked why file changes don&#8217;t appear in the handy Windows Installer tool, Orca. When people open an <em>.msp<\/em> patch package in Orca, they will likely see something like the following:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An MSP in Orca\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/heaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2006\/11\/patch.png\"> <\/p>\n<p>As described in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/2005\/09\/01\/459561.aspx\">What&#8217;s in a Patch<\/a>, a patch package contains transforms and, optionally, tables. Currently, Windows Installer-supported tables include the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/msi\/setup\/msipatchmetadata_table.asp\">MsiPatchMetadata<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/msi\/setup\/msipatchsequence_table.asp\">MsiPatchSequence<\/a> tables. In order to view the changes a patch would make to a product, you need to open up the target <em>.msi<\/em> installer package in Orca first.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An MSI in Orca\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/heaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2006\/11\/product.png\"> <\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve opened the <em>.msi<\/em> package in Orca, either click the <strong>Transform<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>View Patch<\/strong> menu item or drag-and-drop an <em>.msp<\/em> package into the window. If that <em>.msp<\/em> is a small update that targets a latter minor upgrade, apply that minor upgrade using one of the methods described previously first. Once the <em>.msp<\/em> is applied, you&#8217;ll see all changes to the product in green as you can see below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A patched MSI in Orca\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/heaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2006\/11\/patched.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am often asked why file changes don&#8217;t appear in the handy Windows Installer tool, Orca. When people open an .msp patch package in Orca, they will likely see something like the following: As described in What&#8217;s in a Patch, a patch package contains transforms and, optionally, tables. Currently, Windows Installer-supported tables include the MsiPatchMetadata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-installation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I am often asked why file changes don&#8217;t appear in the handy Windows Installer tool, Orca. When people open an .msp patch package in Orca, they will likely see something like the following: As described in What&#8217;s in a Patch, a patch package contains transforms and, optionally, tables. Currently, Windows Installer-supported tables include the MsiPatchMetadata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}