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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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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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Fri, Sep 18 2009 21:51

Careful with that Hyperlink (on your MSI dialog)

One of the new features in version 5 of the Windows Installer runtime is support for hyperlink controls on setup dialogs. Remember that MSI 5 is only available on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but there's no redistributable for down-level...
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Sat, Sep 12 2009 2:30

Microsoft's recent Security Updates for Visual Studio break Windows Installer Updates

This problem was brought up in a question on the InstallSite Forum and is also mentioned in a blog post by Gauravb (who appears to be a Microsoft employee). The typical symptom is missing or not updated files after you install a Small or Minor Update...
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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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Sat, Jul 25 2009 12:18

DON'T Clean up your PC with Windows Installer Clean Up Utility

Currently there are many Twitter posts suggesting the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility. This concerns me and I want to clarify some things about it. I think these tweets might have been triggered by a blog article that Karl L. Gechlik posted recently...
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Tue, Jul 21 2009 11:35

The effect of MSIFASTINSTALL

In MSI 5 there’s a new property MSIFASTINSTALL that can be set on the command line or in the Property table to speed up large install packages. It’s a combination of flags that will avoid creation of a system restore point, skip some costing tasks, reduce...
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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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Sat, Jul 4 2009 12:39

MSI Compatibility: Lying about VersionNT and ServicePackLevel

MSI 5 on Windows 7 introduces a new application compatibility setting, as Chris Jackson describes in his blog . To work around too strict OS version checks in LaunchConditions, Windows Installer can automatically try several variations of values for the...
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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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Mon, May 18 2009 10:46

Windows 7 disguises as Vista to MSI Custom Actions

In every new version of Windows, Microsoft includes numerous “shims” to improve compatibility with existing software. These shims are applied on a per-application basis. You can see which shims apply to an application using the Compatibility Administrator...
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Fri, May 15 2009 7:50

Sample package from DesktopEngineer.com helps you becoming familiar with new MSI 4 and MSI 5 features

Darwin Sanoy of DesktopEngineer.com has published a MSI sample package with a step-by-step self learning guide that leads you through testing new features in Windows Installer versions 4 and 5. Topics covered include: signed and unsigned UAC prompts,...
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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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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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Fri, Mar 13 2009 2:31

Answers from the MSI Team

Last week at Microsoft’s Global MVP Summit I had the opportunity to sit down with the MSI and WiX teams. It was great to meet all these Windows Installer experts and we had some interesting discussions. With me I had some questions from readers of my...
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