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Key Features and Benefits
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MSI Studio Pro lets you easily create a special MSI package which simulates the effect of the application installer on the target computer, but without actually making any changes. Now the administrator can identify which files and registry keys which will be over-written and changed without doing any damage!
Conflict Resolution
MSI Studio Pro adds a repository for storing MSI packages, which allows for easy reporting on where each package might conflict with others. With MSI Studio Pro the administrator can find and resolve problems with conflicting application installers before they occur!
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Desktop Authority MSI Studio is the only tool required by setup/installation developers wanting to create Windows installation programs for their applications. Easy to use, yet containing all the features required by setup developers it is the answer to your installation woes no matter how complicated your solution may be If you are involved at any level in the deployment of software around your corporate networks then Desktop Authority MSI Studio is the only tool you require to prepare your applications. | |
Desktop Authority MSI Studio™ is the complete application software packaging solution used by system administrators, software packagers and setup developers worldwide. It has a complete set of features to create Windows Installer (MSI) files from legacy software installations and tools to modify existing Windows Installer packages using transforms. The Pro edition allows you to test and validate packages without affecting production. | Repackage | Create custom MSIs from both legacy and existing MSI-based installs | | Edit | Modify MSIs using either a graphical view or by direct access to MSI tables | | Manage | Improve your MSIs with advanced conversion, merging, validation and extraction features | | Build | Create MSI projects using cab files, compressed MSIs, bootstrapped MSIs and certificates |
Repackaging
| Features |  | Benefits | | Legacy Application Support | | Monitor changes from a legacy application installer and create a well structured MSI | | Repackage on any machine | | Monitor changes from your development machine (where Desktop Authority MSI Studio is installed) or another 'foreign' machine which can be completely clean (base build only) with no client software needed to be installed. This clean machine can be rebuilt between scans, or it can be a virtual machine. Desktop Authority MSI Studio will connect to it and monitor changes. | | Create Response Transforms | | Configure existing MSI files by creating transform files (MSTs) by stepping through the UI of the existing installation and configure for your environment | | Advanced Transform Management | | Create standalone transforms, merge transforms with MSI files, or create a transform from the difference of 2 MSI files. View and edit transforms with the color coded transform editor. | | Compare MSI packages | | View the difference between 2 MSI files by viewing the changes in the table view with color coded rows, or export the differences to a text file |
Editing
| Comprehensive MSI Editor | | Intuitive Graphical Interface to add, edit and remove files, registry entries, shortcuts, merge modules, ini files entries, ODBC data sources, drivers and translators, environment variables, services and service controls, components, features, permissions on files, directories and registry keys, file extensions, class, typelib, progid entries and custom actions.
Components and Features are displayed in a tree view allowing easy drag-and-drop of resource items between them. | | Included MSI Table Editor | | Table Editor allows direct editing of MSI tables, contains drop down lists in child tables and allows navigation from parent rows to child rows (great for viewing files in a particular component for instance). Also contains a resizing tool | | Completely Customizable Projects | | The custom Action Editor allows you to create any type of custom action and add them to your sequence. Easily set the processing type, execution and scheduling.
Easy modification of the event sequencing can be achieved by using arrows or adding and removing events. | | Access to Deleted Project Components | | A recycle bin allows you to reintroduce any deleted rows |
Managing
| Complete COM entry management | | Convert registry table entries to COM table entries (AppId, Class, File Extension, ProgId, TypeLib).
Convert COM table entries back to the registry table.
Extract COM entries from the files in your project and add to the registry table.
Convert paths in the registry table to component and file paths ([$compkey], [#filekey]). | | Modular design architecture | | Create merge modules from files in your project. Once stored as modules, you can search for merge modules to add to new projects | | Access to CAB contents | | Easily extract cab files and their contents from within MSI files |
Validation & Building
| Multiple Validation Options | | Projects can be validated (ICE or MCE) and errors are displayed in the output window. | | Exclusive MCE validation | | Save time validating and fixing MSI’s with MCE validation. MCE validation has been developed
by ScriptLogic to emulate ICE validation with the benefits of being extremely fast and allowing direct access to problem components via the table editor | | File Storage Options | | Compress files either internally (inside the MSI file), externally in a cab file, or leave them uncompressed | | Self-Extracting Options | | Create a bootstrapping executable for your MSI with the ability to make it self extracting. Check and install, if necessary, the windows installer runtimes from the bootstrapper. |
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