Aug 22, 2019
12:46 PM
Use the "Get Support" menu at the top of the page. A quick video is offered here:
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Aug 22, 2019
11:51 AM
Moving the database should be straight forward. I'm not certain what kind of help you are seeking, but if you are looking for assistance with moving an AdminStudio database I suggest opening a support ticket to help answer questions, or to request the help of our services group for hands-on assistance.
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Aug 21, 2019
11:26 AM
2 Kudos
The old Secunia Community has been taken down. Advisories on the vulnerabilities discovered by Secunia Research can be found here, but full access to the latest Secunia Advisories requires Software Vulnerability Research (for the research directly, or SVM for the research with assessment and patching capabilities).
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Aug 19, 2019
12:52 PM
This is not a current capability, but it is a good idea and we are looking into it now. Thank you
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Aug 19, 2019
09:06 AM
1 Kudo
FYI, we did add Truecrypt (and VeraCrypt) to the Package Feed Module (you can look it up in the filterable list here) but unfortunately the vendor does not provide silent command line options.
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Aug 19, 2019
07:58 AM
You only need AdminStudio if you are preparing third party applications for enterprise deployment; if you are creating setups for your own software InstallShield is (and remains) correct.
I suspect you need signtool from the Windows SDK installed which is a dependency for signing. Please try installing the Windows SDK and if the problem persists, please open a support ticket or post in the InstallShield forum for further assistance. If some options are missing or grayed out, I suspect it may because you are not working with an MSIX project or some condition is not being met for the options in question.
AdminStudio requires the Windows SDK for signing today, but will soon remove the requirement for new versions of Windows 10 where the libraries to sign are now included in Windows.
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Aug 16, 2019
11:07 AM
The Windows tests are updated with the release. AdminStudio 2019 R2 includes tests for 1903 so please download this latest version.
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Aug 15, 2019
08:38 AM
1 Kudo
Agreed! We have plans to provide just that. I cannot offer a release date here but can assure you it is a well known need that we intend to deliver.
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Aug 13, 2019
11:45 AM
AdminStudio 2019 R2, released on August 13th 2019 features:
Package Feed Module
Package Feed Module PowerShell Cmdlets
Support for Windows 10 - 1903
The Package Feed Module
The Package Feed Module integrates details about thousands of vendor setups into AdminStudio to save you hours of research and testing. You can now subscribe to up to date, tested, installation details for nearly 3,000 vendor setups. With the Package Feed Module, AdminStudio now provides:
Awareness. Always up to date, you’ll have valuable details on the very latest version of thousands of vendor installers
Integrated downloads. Download the latest setups directly into AdminStudio with a click (available for over half of listed products; limited by vendor policy)
Validated silent command line options. Application version-specific silent installation commands, tested and ready for use (available for most entries; limited by vendor support)
Detection rules. The primary file path and file name as well as version details to confirm the currently installed version for use as applicability rules in SCCM or to create a WSUS patch.
For more detail, see this blog post which provides more specifics as well as a quick demo video.
New PowerShell Cmdlets in support of Package Feed Module
Take full advantage of the Package Feed Module in AdminStudio Enterprise with new PowerShell Cmdlets. Watch the community soon for a blog post where we will show how you can fully automate the package creation process and keep up with the latest new versions with these Package Feed Module PowerShell Cmdlets:
Invoke-ASPackageFeedSync - Synchronizes the package feed data, so the entries in the Package Feed Module is always up to date
Invoke-ASPackageFeedSearch - Searches for an application in the Package Feed Module based on Product Name and Version supplied
Get-ASPackageFeedDetails - Fetches the details of an application like Silent command line switches, file name, etc.
Invoke-ASPackageFeedDownload - Downloads the setup file to the configured download path
Additionally, some existing PowerShell cmdlets were extended to support Package Feed Module
Set-ASOptionProperty - Configures the download path for the setup file to be downloaded from the Package Feed Module
Get-ASOptionProperty - Fetches the download path where the setup file is downloaded from the Package Feed Module
Invoke-ASImportPackage - Imports the downloaded application to the application catalog
Windows 10 Build 1903 Support for Application Compatibility
We’ve also added the latest build of Windows 10 (1903) to AdminStudio’s continuous compatibility support so you can verify application compatibility against this, and the previous 5 builds, of Windows 10.
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Aug 13, 2019
09:37 AM
4 Kudos
If you are like most desktop admins, you don’t repackage near as much as you once did. There was a time when it was a challenge to run a vendor silent installation silently, let alone inject any sort of customizations. With the popularity of MSI, that quickly changed—while at the same time software vendors generally came to understand and support the demand for automated deployment options. MSI or not, today, about 85% of applications can be deployed without a need to repackage the vendor setup. And that is a good thing! After all, reverse engineering an installer in order to create your own was something done out of necessity and such a path comes with some supportability risk when dealing with the vendor when things went wrong.
This is exactly why for the last two years, AdminStudio has been heavily investing in helping to make leveraging native vendor setups easier, while lowering the risk of deployment. This week, I’m very pleased to announce our most significant move in that direction to date: the Package Feed Module. Available for AdminStudio’s Professional and Enterprise editions, you can now subscribe to up to date, tested, silent installation details for nearly 3,000 vendor setups. And that’s just the start. With the Package Feed Module, AdminStudio now provides:
Awareness. Always up to date, you’ll have valuable details on the very latest version of thousands of vendor installers
Integrated downloads. Download the latest setups directly into AdminStudio with a click (available for over half of listed products; limited by vendor policy)
Validated silent command line options. Application version-specific silent installation commands, tested and ready for use (available for most entries; limited by vendor support)
Detection rules. The primary file path and file name as well as version details to confirm the currently installed version for use as applicability rules in SCCM or to create a WSUS patch.
With such a huge number of installers being tracked and tested, there can be as many as a hundred updates in a single day due to the addition of new versions and updates. This includes over 100 Mac packages.
In just a couple of clicks you can add a vendor package to AdminStudio. With another click, you can wrap it in a PowerShell or EXE script wrapper, with another you can publish it to your deployment system of choice. Never has it been so easy to create new deployment packages!
Saving you considerable time researching and experimenting, creating an initial deployment package goes from what may have been hours or days, to just a few minutes. But wait, there’s more! With AdminStudio Enterprise’s PowerShell support you can automate the entire process. Watch this blog soon for example scripts that will allow you to take a simple list of software titles and automatically create packages for them all. Imagine taking an inventory report and feeding it to a script to have AdminStudio automatically, download, wrap, and publish a deployment package for them all!
View the list of supported applications and to learn more, visit https://www.flexera.com/adminstudio-pfm
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Aug 13, 2019
07:29 AM
1 Kudo
A silent installation from the vendor is not supported. We are adding Truecrypt 7.1a to the Package Feed Module launching later today (August 13th) but the help provided on this particular application will be limited to download, uninstall and detection details because the vendor does not support a silent installation. Even when repackaged with AdminStudio, the deployment community is reporting this one is a particular challenge. See this thread on my old ITNinja site.
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Aug 12, 2019
09:27 AM
I'm not sure about desktop shortcut and restore point options and how such might be supported by the vendor installer (typically such would be the job of a wrapper script using something like PSADT, which is integrated as a feature of AdminStudio).
It does appear to offer a portable mode that requires no installation so a custom installation script looks like the right approach at a glance. Will look into it further and come back with findings here.
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Aug 09, 2019
08:52 AM
2 Kudos
In order to enable High-Availability (HA) for an on-prem installation of SVM 2019 you would need to do this locally with your on-prem virtualization hosting solution. This would normally be accomplished using the VSphere HA utility provided by VMWare.
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Aug 08, 2019
03:00 PM
It depends upon just what you mean by High Availability. We do offer a cloud version where we host SVM 2019 in AWS (as opposed to on-prem). If you mean you would like to use your own virtual infrastructure to have High Availability on-prem, I'm sure it could be done but it would be up to your implementation versus anything we'd be able to provide. Please let me know if that does not sufficiently answer your question.
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Aug 06, 2019
09:33 AM
3 Kudos
Repackager is exclusive to AdminStudio and is not provided as part of InstallShield. I will see about having this made more explicitly clear, but InstallShield does not currently document what is not included. Still, a comparison of what comes with AdminStudio versus InstallShield is a good idea.
As you suspected, licensing does not permit you to use the copy of the Stand Alone Repackager purchased for your previous organization at your current organization. Copies from other customers, or trials may not be used to create production packages for your organization-- such is indeed a breach of the license agreement.
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