Hi Guys,I am using InstallShield Pro 6.3 and created a setup.exe using InstallScript I want to add SMS and group policy support to my current installer. How can I achieve this? I know in order to have SMS support, I need to convert to MSI package. Ca...
HI,I have a couple of applications which are subject to regular upgrades. Generally these upgrades consist of me being given 2 or 3 files from the existing application which have been changed by our developers. I used Adminstudio to repackage the ori...
I'm attempting to use merge modules for the first time and I have some cocnerns. I'm building an install that requires MDAC 2.8 and DirectX 9b. I've loaded the merge modules and everything is cool, but I'm building a corporate-wide Tivoli distribut...
We use a inhouse apps that uses the MSI.DLL to standardise some of our MSI's and Transforms. We have encountered a problem in transforms, when we use Tuner to generate our tranform, we have no problems, however, if we then open up the Transform in I...
Hi All,I've created some custom actions wich do some stuff on the filesystem and registry.. Is it possible to write status messages from to custom action to the installation log file?So if I start my installation with:msiexec /i setitup.msi /qb /L*...
I recently packaged an application and I have the strangest problem. If i doulbe click on the MSI file it installs fine. If i remotely install (using MSIEXEC or our altiris solution) I get the error:Error 1327.Invalid Drive: R:\Now the software doe...
I tried to repackage a product using AdminStudio's 5.0 and had no problems but whenI try to package this under vmware, I take the first snapshot and then the system just gives up without any error message or log. The VMware machine has XP image on i...
I'm having problems with a package built in DevStudio. The package contains a VB6 app and uses Crystal 9 merge modules. When I install it with the /i switch it works fine. However, if I try to install it using the /jm switch it has problems. I ru...
Hi-I am trying to put together a list of things to remove from an ISM if the Snapshot required a reboot in the mddle of it. I have certain things like NAV, InstallShield info, certain IE settings, and some W2K specific info, but was wondering if any...
Hello,I have to repackaged a patch installation into an MSI, the problem is snapshot is not taking all the modifications, so i'm looking for a way to extract the registry informations from the setup.exe and the data.cab.I managed to extract the files...
