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On December 2nd of 2020, MSIX Packaging Fundamentals book authors Tim Mangan, Bogdan Mitrache, and Kevin Kaminski answered a series of questions within the MSIX Packaging Fundamentals Q&A live webinar. [...]
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Full View / NID: 82060 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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As we've emphasized before, we're big fans of MSIX technology here at Advanced Installer. It has brought more control to developers when it comes to their packages -- as it includes options for repackaging, rolling back updates and even downgrade scenarios. [...]
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Full View / NID: 82025 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Advanced Installer 17.9 was released on January 25th, 2021
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Full View / NID: 82004 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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In my experience, CustomActions can be difficult to add and set up, especially in MSI, often requiring reviewing lengthy documentation or dealing with unexpected failures or bugs. If you started your career prior to the App-V and MSIX era, you have probably come across various applications installers that required reverse engineering work. [...]
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Full View / NID: 81991 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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In this article, you will learn how to configure and build an Advanced Installer Visual Studio Project(AIPROJ) from an Azure DevOps pipeline. [...]
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Full View / NID: 81967 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Advanced Installer 17.8 was released on December 21st, 2020
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Full View / NID: 80892 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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We can all agree that adopting new technology is not easy. In effect, it can be stressful for everyone. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80891 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Up until 2020, Windows Services were not supported in MSIX -- which represented a blocker for organizations looking to transition their applications (that used Windows Services) to MSIX technology. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80877 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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TL;DR: Let's put it bluntly, you should never set a CustomAction to “Immediate” when you intend to change the system state. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80839 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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In this article we are going to talk about the application repackaging process and more specifically: what is a Repackager, what can you do with it, how can it help you in your daily job - either as an IT Pro or as a Developer - and what makes Advanced Installer Repackager irreplaceable when supporting your updating and adding customizations to your installer package. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80812 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Working with Azure DevOps pipelines can be a tedious task, especially if you have to perform updates on complex pipelines or make the necessary configurations to each of them in a short amount of time. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80774 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Advanced Installer 17.7 was released on November 25th, 2020
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Full View / NID: 80771 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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In 2018, Microsoft delivered a breakthrough packaging technology to enable a flawless application packaging process, including enhanced features to help IT Pros and Developers carry out updates and customizations in a more reliable way. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80750 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Ever wonder how an MSI registration ProductID is created?When installing an MSI, it registers on the system with a "strange" ProductID (different from regular ProductIDs) which is sometimes tricky to find. This is particularly challenging when you're trying to locate the package installer by its ProductID. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80737 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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If we were to manually install and manage software on a large number of target devices, the process would be very expensive and complicated. To avoid that hassle, enterprises use software deployment tools to simplify these tasks. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80694 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Scripts have been traditionally used by ISVs to add Custom Actions to their applications and make changes to the environment. They have been present in MSI and App-V packaging formats for ages, while for MSIX, they were introduced and supported about a year after Microsoft announced the MSIX release. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80664 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Nowadays CI/CD(Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) pipeline became a best practice for developers and DevOps helping them to manage the software process in a much easier and automated way. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80638 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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There are numerous cloud services available for software developers, and some of them can be almost forgotten until we need them. And when we need them, they turn out to be invaluable. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80627 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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Advanced Installer 17.6 was released on October 22nd, 2020
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Full View / NID: 80596 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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There are situations when you have to know the difference between expense and investment. Within the packaging industry, we know that it is definitely not cheap to package all applications in your organization respecting all quality standards. [...]
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Full View / NID: 80556 / Submitted by: The Zilla of Zuron
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