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Tue, Nov 10 2009 18:23

AdminStudio 9.5 will improve support for Windows 7 and App-V, but won't include a 64 bit Repackager

Today at the Microsoft TechEd Europe conference in Berlin, Flexera Software announced a new version of their packaging and virtualization tool. AdminStudio 9.5 is scheduled to be released on November 23, 2009. The AdminStudio Repackager has been improved...
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Mon, Nov 2 2009 10:02

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 includes link to InstallShield Limited Edition

Some beta testers of Visual Studio 2010 pointed out that in the New Project dialog there is a new template called "InstallShield 2010". It's listed next to "Visual Studio Installer" under Other Project Types > Setup and Deployment...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 9:13

Application Virtualization for Developers - Webinar by Flexera Software

I'm looking forward to this webinar because it's going to discuss a question that I'm also asking myself these days: "Is application virtualization the future of software installations?". Of course, the final answer will be "InstallShield"...
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Thu, Oct 8 2009 18:32

Acresso changes name to Flexera

Mark Bishof, President and CEO of Acresso Software, today informed customers that the company will change its name to Flexera Software effective October 12, 2009. They plan to issue a formal press announcement about this on October 13. But in his e-mail...
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Tue, Oct 6 2009 20:17

Service Pack 1 for InstallShield 2010 brings support for the final released versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

When InstallShield 2010 was released, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were still in the Release Candidate (RC) state. Acresso now published Service Pack 1 to support the release versions (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and the included...
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Mon, Sep 28 2009 11:56

New Advanced Installer 7.2 brings desktop ActiveSync installers for Windows Mobile applications

On September 8th, 2009 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. This is the fifth feature update in this year. Since each Advanced Installer purchase includes 6 months of maintenance (optionally 30 months) you...
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Thu, Sep 10 2009 12:59

Rob Mensching starts Windows Installer Consulting business, offering free project reviews

Rob Mensching is the lead of the Windows Installer XML ( WiX ) toolset, an open source tool to create Windows Installer (MSI) setups. I his day job he's employed at Microsoft, and as another side project he wrote his own blog software . Apparently...
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Fri, Aug 7 2009 19:46

Windows 7 with IE and Ballot Screen in Europe

Microsoft will ship the full Windows 7 with Internet Explorer in Europe, instead of the previously proposed “Windows 7 E” version without any browser. In June, Microsoft had announced that they would remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7 in order to...
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Wed, Jul 15 2009 23:02

New Advanced Installer 7.1 brings Windows 7 and WI 5 compatibility and support

On July 8th, 2009 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to deploy...
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Fri, Jun 19 2009 13:55

InstallShield 2010 Released

(Updated to fix broken hyperlinks) On October 18, 2009 Acresso released the latest version of their setup authoring tool InstallShield, which reportedly is used by over 71,000 ISVs and enterprises to create installers for Windows and mobile devices. What's...
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Tue, Jun 2 2009 13:33

End of Life for InstallShield German announced

Today Acresso announced the end of life for the German editions of InstallShield and for the German and French editions of InstallAnywhere. There will be no German edition of InstallShield 2010, and upgrade pricing from the German to the English edition...
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Tue, May 26 2009 18:45

New Advanced Installer 7.0 brings Windows Mobile/CE support

On May 25th, 2009 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to deploy...
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Thu, May 7 2009 19:19

AdminStudio adds support for direct conversion to Microsoft App-V

On April 28, 2009 Acresso Software announced the release of App-V support for AdminStudio. AdminStudio can now directly convert existing physical application packages to the virtual format for use with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), part...
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Fri, Apr 3 2009 6:07

No joke – WiX will NOT Ship with Visual Studio

Several months ago, Microsoft had announced that the next version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2010, code name Rosario) will ship with a subset of the Windows Installer XML Toolkit ( WiX ). But on April 1st, 2009, Rob Mensching, the WiX project lead...
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Fri, Apr 3 2009 2:14

InstallBuilder 6.0 released with Extended GUI and Automatic Update Delivery

On March 11, 2009 BitRock Inc announced the release of InstallBuilder 6.0. The latest release of the cross-platform application packaging tool includes an extended GUI, so you can now access all of InstallBuilder’s functionality without having to...
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Thu, Mar 26 2009 9:29

New Advanced Installer 6.9 brings multi-instance installs and IIS Application Pools support

On March 18th, 2009 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to deploy...
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Wed, Feb 18 2009 16:22

30% Discount off InstallShield and InstallAnywhere Upgrades through April

For a limited time you can save 30% when upgrading to the latest versions of InstallShield or InstallAnywhere. This offer is valid for upgrades from InstallShield 12 or InstallShield 2008 to InstallShield 2009 and from InstallAnywhere 8, InstallAnywhere...
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Mon, Feb 16 2009 11:43

FLEXnet Connect 6.1 Security Update

Acresso has published a fix for a security issue in FLEXnet Connect (previously called InstallShield Update Service) that was reported in September 2008. The problem was that FLEXnet connect used an unauthenticated HTTP connection to download and execute...
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Wed, Feb 11 2009 13:04

New Advanced Installer 6.8 brings Inno Setup project importing

On February 5th, 2009 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to...
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Tue, Dec 2 2008 15:04

New Advanced Installer 6.7 brings licensing support with trials and registration

On November 26th, 2008 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to...
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