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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 to support Windows 7 requirements, including enhanced...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Tue, Nov 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, Virtualization, AdminStudio, Windows 7, App-V, ThinApp, Flexera, MSI, TechEd
The Executive Guide to Service Management in an Uncertain Economy | Realtime Nexus

In an uncertain economy, IT departments can count on two very certain demands: increase productivity and cut costs. When it comes to service management, CFOs, CIOs, and IT managers face the difficult challenge of developing a strategy that is tightly...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Mon, Nov 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Industry News, Books
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. It's not a real template but only a button...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Mon, Nov 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, WiX, Visual Studio, InstallShield, Flexera, Microsoft, MSI
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" because it supports Microsoft...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, Oct 21 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Industry News, Virtualization, Acresso, InstallShield, App-V, Flexera
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 he already hinted about the reason: "Under...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Oct 8 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Industry News, Macrovision, Acresso, InstallShield, Flexera
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 MSI 5 engine. SP1 also includes some enhancements...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Tue, Oct 6 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, Acresso, InstallShield, Windows 7, InstallShield 2010, MSI 5, Windows Mobile
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 get an average of three free updates. New and improved...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Mon, Sep 28 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, AdvancedInstaller, MSI 5, Windows Mobile
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 he still has some additional spare time ;-) so he...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Sep 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, WiX
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 “comply with European competition law” as they said...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Fri, Aug 7 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Industry News, Windows 7, Application Compatibility
What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

At Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) last week, company officials shared a few tidbits about one of those businesses: Microsoft System Center. System Center encompasses a variety of system-management tools that Microsoft sells to IT professionals...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Mon, Aug 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: System Center, Industry News
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 MSI and EXE installers, patches and on-line updates...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, Jul 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, AdvancedInstaller, Windows 7, MSI 5
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 new in InstallShield 2010 Supports Microsoft...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Fri, Jun 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, Acresso, InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, Windows 7, InstallShield 2010, MSI 5, App-V
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 will end on October 31, 2009. Here are the official...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Tue, Jun 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: German, Windows Installer, Industry News, Acresso, InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, InstallShield 2010
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 MSI and EXE installers, patches and on-line updates...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Tue, May 26 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, AdvancedInstaller
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 of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, the...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, May 7 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, Virtualization, Acresso, AdminStudio, App-V, XenApp, ThinApp
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, had bad news to announce on his blog: “ Visual...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Apr 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, WiX, Visual Studio
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 edit the XML project files by hand. It also includes...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Apr 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Industry News, Cross-Platform Installer, Bitrock
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 MSI and EXE installers, patches and on-line...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Mar 26 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, AdvancedInstaller
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 2008 or InstallAnywhere 2008 Value Pack 1 to InstallAnywhere...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, Feb 18 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Windows Installer, Industry News, Acresso, InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, Special Offer
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 scripts from the update server. Therefore an attacker...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Mon, Feb 16 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Industry News, Security, FLEXnet Connect, Acresso

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