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Windows Installer

Command Line Switches for MSI and MSP Installations

Hi Folks, Its time for yet another Guest Post; and we have Bhuvana writing for us. In this article she focuses on the command line arguments and the silent switches that can be used for msi and msp (un-installable patches). Bhuvana specializes in InstallShield & MSI Installers and her primary responsibility at work is “Build &

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Windows Installer FAQ – Part 4

As you guys are aware, I am writing a series of posts which covers some key discussions, topics and FAQs in the stream of MSI Windows Installer and application packaging. In this fourth part, we will look at some questions on MSI properties and key scenarios which can easily achieved by using the properties appropriately.

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Please Vote – Best Windows Website Contest 2009

Like the last year, Even this time,  The Windows Club is organizing its Best Windows Website Contest 2009, to discover and recognize some of the best Windows bloggers. It feels great to share this information that, Msigeek.com has been selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists for the Contest. From among the 60+ participants,

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ChangeBASE Announces the Launch of Version 3.0 of AOK for Citrix XenApp

ChangeBASE AOK, the world leader in automated application compatibility testing and remediation today announces the release of AOK v 3.0 for Citrix with a comprehensive suite of testing and remediation plug-ins for Citrix® XenApp™ – hosted or streamed. Building on the first release of AOK for Citrix in June last year the new features allow

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Faster Installs using MSIFASTINSTALL

When set, this property makes a large Windows Installer package perform a faster installation. The property can be set on the command line or in the Property table to configure operations that the user or developer determines are non-essential for the installation. The value of the MSIFASTINSTALL property can be a combination of the following

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Scalable Software’s WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite

From past few days, there was a thought of implementing a guest post section on Msigeek. This was just to bring-in experts from different areas to showcase their expertise and share their knowledge/product with us!! Well, Let me introduce the author of this post. His name is Scott Drucker and he has been working as

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How do I install a Windows Installer Patch?

Consider a scenario where a single file in the application has undergone a change, and this file needs to be replaced in all the machines where it is Installed. In such a situation, it doesn’t make sense in creating a new package and deploy the same. Also, if we have any configuration file which the

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Creating your first WiX project

The Wix tools allow you to define the structure of a windows installer package using an XML file. This gives you all of the usual benefits of XML: easy editing with a variety of tools, the ability to modify the files using well-known technologies, and the ability to put the source file under source code

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WiX v3.0 now available for download

The final build of WiX v3.0 is 3.0.5419 has been released to SourceForge and marked RTM/stable. You can download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/files/. Also, Votive is now available for Visual Studio 2010 beta. I would suggest all Visual Studio 2010 Beta users to upgrade to the latest build of WiX v3.5 to try out the feature.

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Windows Installer FAQ – Part 3

As you guys are aware, I am writing a series of posts which covers some key discussions, topics and FAQs in the stream of application packaging. In this third post, we will look at some questions on key OS components and Installation sequences. Q11. What is the difference between a Task, Process and a Service

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Windows Installer FAQ – Part 2

As you guys are aware, I am writing a series of posts which covers some key discussions, topics and FAQs in the stream of application packaging. In this second post, we will look at some questions, which involve deployment privileges and types of Installations. Q6. What is a MSI product made up of? A package

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Windows Installer FAQ – Part 1

I am planning to write a series of posts covering some key discussions, topics and FAQs in the stream of application packaging. I reckon this post would help, when some of you look at a change in your careers or when stuck up with an issue. This would be my first post of the series.

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