Advanced Installer is a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer is a useful tool for administrators and developers which allows them to create reliable MSI packages.
Windows Installer is becoming the “de facto” software installation technology on Windows. Being preinstalled on the latest Microsoft operating systems, and also bundled with the most popular productivity packages (Office, etc.) this software installer provides a significant number of power features that improve application management and administration.
This power doesn’t come without pitfalls, and the most important of them all is the complexity. Creating an MSI file requires careful planning and editing of dozens of database tables.
Hundreds of pages of documentation must be read, countless lists of rules must be followed. Building a Windows Installer package may take days or even weeks. This is where a MSI creation tool comes to help.
*Advanced Installer makes MSI creation a snap
*Advanced Installer integrates in automated build tools
*Install and register the resources composing your application
*Search, download and install Prerequisites
*Organize your application in modules and components
*Secure and choose your package’s presentations
*Extend the installation process with Custom Actions
*Customize the installation User Interface
Windows Installer is becoming the “de facto” software installation technology on Windows. Being preinstalled on the latest Microsoft operating systems, and also bundled with the most popular productivity packages (Office, etc.) this software installer provides a significant number of power features that improve application management and administration.
This power doesn’t come without pitfalls, and the most important of them all is the complexity. Creating an MSI file requires careful planning and editing of dozens of database tables.
Hundreds of pages of documentation must be read, countless lists of rules must be followed. Building a Windows Installer package may take days or even weeks. This is where a MSI creation tool comes to help.
*Advanced Installer makes MSI creation a snap
*Advanced Installer integrates in automated build tools
*Install and register the resources composing your application
*Search, download and install Prerequisites
*Organize your application in modules and components
*Secure and choose your package’s presentations
*Extend the installation process with Custom Actions
*Customize the installation User Interface
On May 27th, 2013 Caphyon Ltd. is proud to announce the release of Advanced Installer 10.2 inFreeware, Professional, For Java, Enterprise and Architect editions. This release is available for download on the Advanced Installer website.
The 10.2 release brings the ability to configure Windows Features on install. Enable the Windows features your application needs with just a few mouse clicks: from .NET 3.5 on Windows 7 and 8 to IIS.
The Repackager was once again greatly improved with system noise recordings, dynamic profile updates and a streamlined user interface for multiple application repackaging.
New features in this release
- Windows Features configuration support
- Dynamic Repackager profile update
- New Repackager UI for configuring multiple applications to be repackaged at once
- Ability to create a Repackager noise profile scan
- Ability for Bootstrapper to remove a previous version of the package it installs
- Custom defined .CUB files (for ICE validations)
- Digital Signature for MSI Editor
- Internet Explorer 10 predefined prerequisite
Enhancements to existing features
- Ability to condition an SQL connection
- Support bulk add for SQL scripts
- UI for directly adding inline SQL scripts
- Register Advanced Installer using a floating license from the CLI
- Added blink capability to setups that use Bootstrapper
- Added option to test an URL used in Bootstrapper
- Improvement in Bootstrapper when handling a property's value
- Automatically stopped updater service after advertising command was successfully executed
- Added support for creating a new security descriptor starting from a an existing one
- Support for LUA patching with certificates from store
- Added option for ignoring files attributes when adding a file to project
- Restriction to manually add feature names
- Support MSI edit/import with duplicate folder names
- Predefined folder for IIS Root folder
- Dedicated UI option for installing web applications in IIS "wwwroot" folder
- Improved error policy for IIS entities
- Automatically handle extraction path for installations running under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account
- Added option which allows the user to decide if all predefined MSI tables will be included in a project that has merge modules
- Switch for silent installations to specify the overwrite operation for a web application when a duplicate is detected
- "Run with highest privileges" options for scheduled task
- Created a search functionality in the "Registry" page
- New controls now match the theme environment
- Left menu quick filter navigation improvements
- WinService class improvements
- License auto updater improvements
- Real Studio import improvements
Bug fixes
- An error was thrown when using "I have a license file received via email" option to register a valid Advanced Installer floating license
- Same package code was used for different languages
- MSI build failed when "Windows Installer 4.5 for Windows XP x86" was added as feature-based prerequisite
- "Reboot after prerequisite finishes installation" still rebooted the machine in a loop if the prerequisite failed to install
- Fixed "Prerequisites" page > "Hide already installed prerequisites" option
- Quick Launch shortcut was created when "Quick Launch Toolbar" option from "ShortcutsDlg" was unchecked
- Scrollable Text control on Surface theme looked disabled
- Bottom Note control on WelcomeDlg dialog had a smaller width than its Italian localized string
- The "Function" combo box contained a lot of empty new lines
- Fixed "Back, Next, Finish, Cancel" Bootstrapper buttons to use the same language as the rest of the package UI (not loading strings from the OS)
- "Integer" flag was not working for edit box control on Surface theme (rich edit control)
- "Add Dependencies" feature did not detect missing resources
- Did not allow creating a table with two binary columns (not supported by Windows Installer)
- "Launch File" (viewer) custom action incorrectly stripped quotes that surround properties in "command line" field
- Fixed removal key symbol bug on copy/paste
- Options from Edit Folder > Permissions > right context menu did't work
- Messages displayed by Bootstrapper when failing to download updates were wrong
- Fixed crash at copy/paste an empty folder with Remove option set
- Fixed crash at copy/paste a File Removal operation
- Disabled the option "Fail installation if custom action return an error" for "Set installer property" custom action (it broke the installation otherwise)
- Advanced Installer crashed when deleting IIS Virtual Directories with custom Error Pages
- Fixed error in IIS page > Authentication Tab
- Fixed error when running a package with a "Disable Features" custom action
- MsiPackageType="Intel" from WISE import was lost after navigating in "Install Parameters" page
- Project type selection dialog did not appear all the time on WIX import
- Orphan components were imported from MSI without any hope of recovery
- Updater scheduled task was not uninstalled
- Fixed bug on deleting feature "Feature" from "Organization" page
- Fixed error when opening project with properties used inside Output Folder
- Some edit boxes in "Install Parameters" page were misaligned
