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Monday, January 21, 2008 5:57 PM

Video: Windows Installer and Application Compatibility

Microsoft's Channel 9 posted a video interview with Robert Flaming, program manager on the Windows Installer team. Robert talks about topics like User Account Control (UAC), chainers, restart manager, nested install custom actions, digitally signing...
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Friday, November 16, 2007 5:20 PM

Serious issue with the .NET 3.5 installer on Windows Vista

Aaron Stebner reports an issue (some commenters call it a "nightmare") in the .NET Framework 3.5 installer that can cause a premature reboot request on Windows Vista. If the user accepts the reboot request while the framework installer or your...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:16 PM

MSI Readiness Analyzer for Windows Vista Updated

In a previous post I wrote about a free tool from ScriptLogic called "MSI Readiness Analyzer for Windows Vista". ScriptLogic responded to my complaint that common Vista problems slipped through the validation. Version 2 of the tool performs...
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Monday, August 13, 2007 2:46 PM

Setup Guidelines for UAC Compatibility

An article in the Altiris community blog lists best practices that should be followed to make sure your setup works as intended on Windows Vista with User Account Control (UAC). Guidelines and Best Practices to Achieve UAC for Applications on Vista
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:56 PM

German: dotnetpro 9/07 - WiX 3 und Benutzerkontensteuerung (UAC)

(This article is only available in German) Auch das neue Heft 09/2007 der Zeitschrift dornetpro behandelt wieder Themen, die für Setup-Entwickler interessant sind. Unter dem Titel " Installationsroutinen mit Windows Installer XML 3 " stellt...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:20 AM

MSI Readiness Analyzer for Windows Vista

ScriptLogic offers a free tool called "MSI Readiness Analyzer for Windows Vista". MSI Readiness Analyzer for Windows Vista is a free standalone utility for IT professionals which analyzes MSI application installers and highlights methods to...
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Monday, April 30, 2007 10:43 PM

How to support Vista's Restart Manager in your Application and Setup

Richard Macdonald of the Windows Installer team at Microsoft has posted another great blog article in which he describes how to make your application restart manager aware and how to add the MsiRMFilesInUse dialog to your setup using a .msi table editor...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:01 PM

Beware of the UAC Prompt Timeout

Recently I encountered a strange problem when I tried to install an MSI based setup on Windows Vista. I ran through the dialog sequence and clicked the “Install Now” button. The progress bar dialog was displayed as usual, and I left the computer to get...
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:13 AM

Tips for Preparing your Application and Installation for Vista Certification

There is an article at the Code Project that explains some of the Vista logo requirements and test cases and offers tools and tips to pass them. Among others it shows how to modify a MSI setup created with Visual Studio Setup & Deployment project...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:34 PM

7 Reasons Why your Installations May Fail on Windows Vista (And How You Can Fix Them)

An article that I've written for the December 2006 issue of the Macrovision DevLetter. 7 Reasons Why your Installations May Fail on Windows Vista (And How You Can Fix Them) Windows Installer is not just a technology but also a set of rules and best...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:10 PM

MSDN Magazine article about UAC (in multiple languages)

An MSDN Magazine article that talks about User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista and also covers setup topics is available online. There are several localized versions of this article. If your language isn't detected automatically you can select...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:29 AM

Adventures in Vista Logo certification

I found an interesting blog article from a software developer who prepared his application and setup for Windows Vista Logo certification. He describes useful resources and tips, and also some pitfalls. How to: Getting Certified for Windows Vista logo...
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Friday, October 13, 2006 5:15 PM

Important Windows Installer WebCast: Designing Installations for User Account Control (recording available)

Windows Vista includes a new feature call User Account Control (UAC) which has the potential to break many existing MSI-based setups. UAC is a really, really important topic. Although Vista isn't released yet, I'm seeing multiple reports of broken...
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Friday, September 22, 2006 9:28 AM

How UAC in Vista will impact your Setup (updated Oct 3)

Windows Vista introduces a security concept called User Account Control (UAC) which has multiple impacts on Windows Installer (MSI) based setups. Robert Flaming, Product manager on the MSI team at Microsoft, is posting a series of articles on his blog...
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