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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 the frequency of progress messages, or any combination...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Tue, Jul 21 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Windows 7, MSI 5
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 VersionNT and ServicePackLevel properties to circumvent...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Sat, Jul 4 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Windows 7, MSI 5, Application Compatibility
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, signing MSI packages elevation scenarios and custom...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Fri, May 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, MSI 4.5, MSI 5
Windows 7 Logo Requirements

Microsoft has published a preview of the “Technical Requirements for the Windows 7 Software Logo Program for Client Operating Systems”. The list of requirements is significantly shorter than in previous versions of Windows. The use of Windows Installer (MSI) or ClickOnce is no longer listed as an explicit...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, Feb 4 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Logo Certification, Windows 7
Chaining MSI Packages with MSI 4.5 White Paper

David Cole, Senior Software Engineer and Install Architect at IBM, has written a white paper called “Using Chained .MSI Packages to Componentize Your Windows Installer Setup”. The white paper is available from Acresso Software, the makers of InstallShield, but most of the content is independent of the...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Fri, Jan 30 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, MSI 4.5, Acresso, InstallShield
Deploying VSTO Office Add-Ins with Windows Installer

If you are creating Office add-ins you may find this two-part MSDN article useful. It describes how to install add-ins created with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) using Windows Installer. The article uses Visual Studio to create the MSI. Deploying a Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 3...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Fri, Aug 1 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Visual Studio
LINQ to MSI

LINQ stands for Language-Integrated Query and enables you to directly query databases in .NET programming languages. In a series of blog posts Bart De Smet is writing a query provider to use LINQ for MSI databases. He emphasizes that it's a sample only, and I must admit that I don't understand...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Fri, Jul 25 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, LINQ
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

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, May 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Macrovision, Acresso, InstallShield
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 setups and patches. Watch the video or download...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Mon, Jan 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, UAC, Vista
InstallShield Support for Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 and VC++ 9

Macrovision released updates for InstallShield 2008 to support integration with Visual Studio 2008 and redistribution of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VC++ 9 runtime files: HOTFIX: Beta Support for Visual Studio 2008 UPDATE: InstallShield 2008 Basic MSI, InstallScript MSI, and Express Support for .NET Framework...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Jan 3 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Industry News, Macrovision, Visual Studio
Developer Webcast: Application Deployment on Windows (December 4, 2007)

In part 5 of their "Ignite our Coding" webcast series , the MSDN team at Microsoft Canada talks about application deployment on Windows: Now that your code is written and tested, how do you plan to deploy the working bits? There are a lot of different ways to deploy applications on the Windows...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Nov 22 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer
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 own setup isn't completed yet, the system can...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Fri, Nov 16 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Vista
Using virtual machines or disk images to test setups

Bob Arnson of the WiX team has some recommendations for tresting your setups. He discusses virtual machines vs. disk imaging, and briefly compares some virtual machine software products. Test your setups virtually

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Fri, Sep 28 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Virtualization
Installing shell extensions with Windows Installer

James Finnigan of Microsoft plans to build some custom actions for installing shell extensions, and he's looking for use cases and problem reports. So if you are installing shell extsensions such as protocol handlers, schema extensions, shell folders, or file associations, please visit James'...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Sat, Sep 1 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer
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 additional tests and is available as a free download...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, Aug 15 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Industry News, Vista
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

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Mon, Aug 13 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, UAC, Vista
Uninstalling MSI Setups created with InstallShield can corrupt Windows

There's a bug in the way InstallShield extracts COM data that can corrupt the operating system when your "Basic MSI" or "InstallScript MSI" setup is uninstalled. Read how Christopher Painter lost TCP/IP settings on his computer because of this problem. This can happen if you use...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Sat, Aug 11 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Macrovision
How To Write an Automatic Update System

Here's a link to an eight part series which describes different approaches to inform your customers about available updates to your application and to automatically download and install those updates. How To Write an Automatic Update System (this is the last part of the seris which has links to the...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Thu, Aug 9 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, ClickOnce, WiX
Deploying a Client/Server application using MSI and ClickOnce

This article at CodeProject explains in detail how to deploy a web service project. It uses a combination of Visual Studio and Orca to build an MSI setup for the server part. A SQL Server database is also installed with this project. For the client side a ClickOnce setup is created, also with Visual...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Wed, Jul 18 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, ClickOnce
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 prepare them for Windows Vista. MSI Readiness Analyzer...

Posted to InstallSite Blog by stefan on Tue, Jun 19 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Web Resources, Windows Installer, Vista

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