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Advanced Installer 16.3 was released on September 4th, 2019
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Full View / NID: 78023 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Sometimes you might end up in a situation when you cannot uninstall a package. We already covered how you can recache an MSI in our user guide. However, we noticed that this might not work for transforms (MSTs) and a different solution is needed. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77971 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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VLC media player (or in short VLC) is an open-source, cross-platform media player created by VideoLan. At the moment, its one of the most popular players on the market.Let’s see if we can convert it to the new MSIX technology by Microsoft and what challenges we face in doing so. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77921 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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A few years ago, we were used to rebooting our machines to complete installations; nowadays, applications that require a restart are becoming a thing of the past. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77850 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Advanced Installer 16.2 was released on August 1st, 2019
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Full View / NID: 77811 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Notepad++ is the most popular free source code editor. Since MSIX is the future of packaging, let’s see how we can repackage Notepad++ to MSIX by using Advanced Installer. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77699 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Electron is an open-source framework which combines the Chromium rendering engine and the Node.js runtime in order to allow for the development of desktop GUI applications using web technologies. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77618 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Advanced Installer 16.1 was released on July 2nd, 2019
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Full View / NID: 77604 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Let’s assume that you have an application that installs files or registry in a user location. In this article we explain how you can install that information for all users by using MSI, APP-V or the new Microsoft installer technology, MSIX, a short cleanup process description, and a short comparison between them. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77538 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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In the lifecycle of an application package, it comes a point when an update is required. Whether we want to fix minor bugs and vulnerabilities, or we come up with some improvements and big changes to our app, we must deliver it as an update. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77403 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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In January 2020, Windows 7 end of life support comes in place. This means that users won’t receive any updates from Microsoft, and companies have to pay extra for the next three years if they want them. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77348 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Advanced Installer 16.0 was released on May 28th, 2019
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Full View / NID: 77321 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite which includes a variety of tools such as Modeling, Rendering, Animation, Video Editing and many types of Simulations. Its source file can be downloaded from here and it comes in MSI format. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77272 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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All MSIX packages must be digitally signed, no exception. In order to digitally sign your MSIX package, you can use a self-signed certificate. However, you need to ensure that same certificate used to sign the MSIX package is imported into the Computer's Trusted Root Certification Authorities on the target device where you plan to deploy your MSIX package. Otherwise, your MSIX will fail to install. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77226 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Wise Installer was one of the most popular software tool used for creating application installers. It’s discontinued from 2013, but until then not many changes were added to it since the original launch. However, it’s still used to this day by many users in the world. Custom action offer the possibility to extend the logic of the installer by adding scripts, executables, dll’s and many more, so let’s have a look on how custom actions are added in Wise vs Advanced Installer. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77206 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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In our days, many apps offer you a context menu. A context menu is a pop-up menu that appears after a user interaction, for example, in Windows, when you perform a right-click. However, there are two types of context menus: [...]
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Full View / NID: 77168 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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MSIX uses the same PowerShell cmdlets available for AppX packages. Let’s go through some of them with a few examples [...]
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Full View / NID: 77127 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Before we begin, it is important we know that starting with SCCM version 1806, MSIX application is supported in System Center Configuration Manager. Integrating MSIX apps in previous versions, does not work.Also the current version of Windows 10 that supports MSIX is version 1809. It is announced that Microsoft will add support for MSIX also on other versions of Windows 10. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77117 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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If you are attending Microsoft Build, in Seattle, don't forget to visit the Advanced Installer booth on the expo floor. We’ve got some great new tools to showcase from our latest releases. [...]
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Full View / NID: 77064 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Advanced Installer 15.9 was released on April 23rd, 2019
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Full View / NID: 77047 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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