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BUG: MSIEXEC.EXE - Setting Property Values to NULL

Be careful when setting public properties to NULL (empty strings), if you try the following (tested WIN2000 and WINXP): 

msiexec.exe /i somemsi.msi SOME_PROPERTY=

Then "msiexec.exe" will stuff up and assign some garbage to the property, a work around (as documented in Windows Installer doco) is to do the following instead: 

msiexec.exe /i somemsi.msi SOME_PROPERTY=""

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