title: Windows Installer does not install feature and does not report an error. (Request: Null)
body: <p>A simple msi created using WiX. Trying to install a product. On some computers it will fail, without an error, and the installer log will contain these rows: </p>
  
  <pre><code>PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding WIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED property. Its value is '{7C9...0A0}'
  PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding MIGRATE property. Its value is '{7C9...0A0}'
  Product Code from property table after transforms:  '{68F...FAE}'
  Product not registered: beginning first-time install
  Doing action: INSTALL 
  Doing action: InstallValidate 
  Feature: ProductFeature; Installed: Absent;   Request: Null;   Action: Null 
  MIGRATE = {7C9...0A0};{A9B...BCE}
  Installation completed successfully.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Somehow, Windows Installer decides that there is nothing to do (Request: Null), even though it acknowledges that this is the first time install. That computer had previous version of the product installed. How do I force the installer to install?</p>
  
  <p>Here is the relevant WiX code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Product Id="*"
             Name="..."
             Language="1033"
             Version="..."
             Manufacturer="..."
             UpgradeCode="8D8...196"&gt; 
  
  &lt;Package Id="*"
               InstallerVersion="200"
               Compressed="yes"
               InstallScope="perMachine"
               InstallPrivileges="elevated"
               Platform="$(var.Platform)" /&gt;
  
  &lt;Property Id="REINSTALLMODE" Value="amus" /&gt;
  
  &lt;MajorUpgrade AllowDowngrades="yes" IgnoreRemoveFailure="yes" AllowSameVersionUpgrades="no"/&gt;
  
  &lt;Feature Id="ProductFeature" Title="..." Level="1" Absent="disallow" AllowAdvertise="no" InstallDefault="local" TypicalDefault="install"&gt;
        &lt;Condition Level="1"&gt;True&lt;/Condition&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Full installer log: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/abnryavh203a82w/acme_installer_log.txt?dl=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.dropbox.com/s/abnryavh203a82w/acme_installer_log.txt?dl=0</a></p>