If the old PC is no longer available/working then you need to contact activation support:  https://community.flexera.com/t5/InstallShield-Knowledge-Base/How-to-Use-Revenera-Support-Chat-to-Help-with-InstallShield/ta-p/133409   ... View more

Please note that InstallShield 2009 (actually all versions 2013 or older) will soon stop working, as the activation service will be turned off on July 1st, 2022. So this might be the right time to switch to the latest version. ... View more

And your setup itself is also signed with a trusted signature? According to the document linked in the original post: If the security service is unable to make a confident prediction about the app, then Smart App Control checks to see if the app has a valid signature. If the app has a valid signature Smart App Control will let it run. If the app is unsigned, or the signature is invalid, Smart App Control will consider it untrusted and block it for your protection. And also: "I'm an app developer, how can I get Smart App Control to not block my app?" The simple answer is, sign your app with a valid certificate. So this might be a bug in the pre-release version of SAC. Please give feedback to Microsoft: In Windows, go to the  Feedback Hub. (from the Start menu or press Windows key + F). When you get to  Step 2 - Choose a category, select  Security and Privacy  -  Smart App Control. ... View more

If you don't change the ProductCode it's a small or minor update. For a Major Upgrade you need to change the ProductCode butkeep the UpgradeCode unchanged. The Major Upgrade entry will make it an update (i.e. it uninstalls the old version and installs the new version) ... View more

You will need to contact sales as cloud based licensing is only available in InstallShield Premier and I think it also requires a concurrent (floating9 license.   ... View more

Does your application and msi have a digital signature? ... View more

That's weird. You are getting a SELMGR error in your log dispite the fact that you changed the ProductCode and increased the ProductVersion in any of the firt three fields? ... View more

remove the quotes around "Not versionNT64" ... View more

any errors or warnings in the build logs? Have you actually compared the contents of the directories from where the setup is built (to make sure TeamCity really pulled everything into the correct place) ... View more

Addings multiple files with static linking can be done in a semi-automatic way. However, if the DLLs in your project change frequently( i.e. not just newer versions but DLLs with different file names) you should use a Major Upgrade, not a Small or minor update. ... View more

Here's a quote from documentation https://docs.revenera.com/installshield26helplib/helplibrary/UpgrdngToIS2011.htm#gettingstarted_3084197908_1170547: Deprecation of InstallScript Objects InstallScript objects have been deprecated in favor of InstallShield prerequisites. In a future release,   InstallShield   will no longer be able to create or consume InstallScript objects, and no predefined InstallScript objects will be provided. Furthermore, the Merge Module Holder Object will not be available. The recommended alternative for InstallScript objects is InstallShield prerequisites. You can use the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor to begin creating your own InstallShield prerequisites so that you are ready to use them once the InstallScript object technology becomes obsolete. You can share these InstallShield prerequisites among InstallScript, InstallScript MSI, and Basic MSI projects. Maybe your project was created with an older version of InstallShield and therefore includes the merge module holder object. You could try to copy the object (not the merge module) from [ProgramFiles]\InstallShield\2020\ObjectsPro\Merge Module Object ... View more

Under Upgrades > Upgrade Windows Installer Setup there should be an entry ISPreventDowngrade which InstallShield puts there by default to prevent this problem. Is this missing in your project? (Maybe your project was originally created in a much older version of InstallShield thata didn't have this entry).  If the entry exists and never altered (you don't have to adjust anything there, it all happens automatically during build) then make sure that the UPGRADECODE has not changed between these versions and that the version number has been incremented in any of the first three fields (not just in the fourth. ... View more

As far as I know you will need a concurrent (floating) license with the cloud based license server option. ... View more

Are you actually ruinning the same msi again? Or a new build of the msi? ... View more

No. But as a workaround (especially if it's a large file) you could replace it with a small/empty dummy file of the same name in your update. ... View more