Feb 08, 2013
09:28 AM
Hello all, We are wanting to change the [Product Name] property of our MSI’s , through an MST to reflect the company’s initials. Something along the lines of “Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (TAB)” adding “(TAB)” to the end of every package we have created. We have hired a company to package several applications for us and in our statement of work we put the requirement to have this added to the completed package. This company has referenced a forum article (old 2010) about the risk to changing the [Product Name] Site: http://www.itninja.com/question/productname-change-with-a-transform • Some vendor MSI’s use product name in setdirectory custom action, which may result in changing the installation location, which in turn may affect functionality. • Applications requiring any server or hardware connectivity can be impacted by changing the Product Name. • Applications dependencies may not be recognized as valid if the Product Name is changed. • Patches may not get installed • Can cause the issue with the upgrading of the previous versions I have in turn replied back with a more up to date reference from Microsoft: Site http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370857(v=vs.85).aspx The ProductName property contains the name of the application being installed. This is used only for display purposes. Advertised as a product property. This property is REQUIRED. This property can be changed by a transform. Question: Is anyone aware of any risk to changing the "Product Name" property in an MST file? Thank you in advance for anything you can offer! Thomas B
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