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group together multiple MSIs

I have created a few .msi projects using the repackager. Now I want to be able to deploy these applications as part of a suite of applications with a master installation that will allow you to choose which of the applications you want to install. W...

Legacy Setup Conversion failed please help

Starting conversionCreating project fileReading repackager output fileLoading registry entriesCreating components for the files captured *** Error: COM Error #0x800403edis the error message i gethave searched the knowlege basetried Q105853 no joywha...

Beginner Question - Custom Actions

First off, I'm just a technician not a developer and I'm still learning about msi. So sorry if this is a silly question. I'm trying to debug an msi installation that we purchased from a company that purchased it from another company that no longer ...

Repackaging Norton Antivirus 8.0

Hello guys/girls. Norton Antivirus 8.0 comes with a tool called repackager that should help you create an msi for your installs. It does create one for me, but this is a very strange kind of MSI. The Active Directory policy will not accept it as a va...

Custom Action Exit Codes

I am trying to properly terminate an MSI from installing, if a custom action I wrote in VBScript fails. However, even though I am passing back a exit code, the MSI keeps going like nothing happened.In my VBScript Custom Action I have the following h...

Mapped drives question

Hello guys. I have an application whose shortcust point to a mapped drive X:\ . At first i was getting error during install that the X drive did not exist. I went ahead and created another value in Property Table SC_PATH with value of X:\APPS , in my...

Admin 3.5 creates Directory tables entries using reserved Property names (2711)

I used the Repackager of Admin 3.5 to create an Basic MSI project and it created entires in the Directory table using reserved MSI Property names. For example my project contained folders named Remove and Advertise. It then created an entry in the ...

How to force .xml files to be in their own component and set key file

I have a project with many xml files where I want each xml file to be it's own component and be a key file. The component wizard only breaks on .exe, .dll, .ocx... Is there some configuration file I can change to make the wizard or repackager creat...

Using Computername?

Hi All,I'm new to installshield but not to packaging. I've taken a snapshot of a clean image, installed the packaged and captured the changes.Now after examining the irp the application I am repackaging puts an entry in the registry that is equal to ...

App installation questions

Somewhere on InstallShield website I found a white paper that was a list of questions that you would ask application support people before packaging an app for them. Now I can't find it. If someone knows where it is or what it was called, please le...

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