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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:14 PM

Acresso Special Offers in October

Acresso has started a new special offer for InstallShield and InstallAnywhere for October, and the AdminStudio offer also runs through Oct 30. Below is a summary of the current offers, and also some information about the price increase that was announced...
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Friday, September 19, 2008 10:52 AM

InstallShield and InstallAnywhere prices will go up

In an e-mail sent today, Acresso announced that effective November 1, 2008, prices will increase on InstallShield® and InstallAnywhere®. There were no details in the e-mail, but according to my information the prices for full versions and upgrades of...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:10 AM

Security Vulnerability in FLEXnet Connect / InstallShield Update Service

When checking for updates, the FLEXnet Connect client (and it's previous versions named InstallShield Update Service) can download and execute scripts from the update server. The problem is that these scripts are downloaded via HTTP, so the identity...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:09 AM

InstallShield 2009 Service Pack 2 available

Acresso released Service Pack 2 for InstallShield 2009 Premier and Professional. SP2 contains support for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. In addition, several issues were resolved in this service pack. The SP2 patch includes...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:03 AM

Additional upgrade discounts from Acresso, including end-of-life products

Today Acresso extended the upgrade discount offer (10% off the upgrade price) that is available through the end of September (for AdminStudio: end of October) to the following product versions: InstallShield Express: versions 11, 11.5, 12, 2008 InstallShield...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:20 PM

Acresso released AdminStudio 9 and announced end of life for AdminStudio 7.x

On August 29, 2008 Acresso released version 9.0 of AdminStudio Enterprise, Professional and Standard editions. AdminStudio 9 Release Notes (PDF) Webinar: What's New in AdminStudio 9.0 and Workflow Manager 5.0 Registration required. WARNING: Anyone...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:16 AM

Acresso announces end of life for InstallShield 11.x and InstallAnywhere 7, special upgrade discount offer

On August 27, 2008, Acresso announced the end of life of InstallShield 11 and 11.5. This includes Premier, Professional and Express Editions and all languages of these Editions. Acresso also announced the end of life of InstallAnywhere 7.x. To stay current...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:00 AM

InstallShield 2009 Express available

On August 27, 2008 Acresso released version 2009 of InstallShield Express, completing the InstallShield 2009 product family: Premier, Professional and Express. New features in this version include: Setup Prerequisites based on feature selection Visual...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:52 AM

Service Pack 1 for InstallShield 2009 available [Update]

Only two weeks after the inital release of InstallShield 2009 Acresso published a service pack. The main purpose of SP1 is to add support for the release version of Windows Installer 4.5. The inital release only supported MSI 4.5 Beta 2. SP1 also fixes...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:07 PM

InstallShield 2009 Upgrade Caveats

There are many great new features, improvements and bug fixes in InstallShield 2009, as detailed in the release notes . But if you consider upgrading to the new version you also should be aware of some changes that might be a problem for your projects...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:30 PM

InstallShield 2009 released

Here's another TechEd announcement: InstallShield 2009 is available InstallShield 2009 - which is internally version 15.0 - is the first InstallShield release under the new company name Acresso. New features in this version include: Managed Code Custom...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:13 PM

Webcast: Application Virtualization with AdminStudio and Thinstall

On Wednesday, May 14, VMware (makers of Thinstall) and Acresso (makers of AdminStudio) will hold a free online webcast titled "Application Virtualization Reduces Costs with Conflict Free Applications". Description: Use Thinstall and AdminStudio...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:56 AM

Basic Introduction to InstallShield and Windows Installer

Found a nice blog article by Susan Gorman that introduces Windows Installer and InstallShield's role: Basic Introduction to InstallShield and Windows Installer
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:41 PM

Upgrade offer for old InstallShield and AdminStudio versions

There's currently a special offer that allows owners of InstallShield and AdminStudio to upgrade to the current version at a reduced price. InstallShield versions older than 11.0 and AdminStudio versions older than 7.0 are no longer entitled to regular...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:04 AM

One-Click Install (OCI) Security Vulnerability in InstallShield 12

A security vulnerability has been reported in the One-Click Install ActiveX control in InstallShield 12. The problem only exists in the InstallScript project type; Basic MSI and InstallScript MSI are not affected. The vulnerability only exists in InstallShield...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:10 AM

Acresso Software now owns InstallShield etc.

As of today, Acresso Software is the new company that produces the InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, AdminStudio and FLEXnet product families. Back in February, Macrovision Corp. announced that they are selling their Software Business Unit to private equity...
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