Tips & Tricks

Flexera Software products tips and tricks offer “how-to” information to get the most out of your solution for software licensing, software entitlement, software installation, and application packaging and readiness. Find the most recent tips or explore the library.

Recent Tips & Tricks

Modifying File-Transfer Behavior for MSIs
Executable Custom Actions for MSIs
Designing an Update-Friendly MSI Installation
Working with MSI Features and Components
Creating Microsoft App-V Package Upgrades

Tips & Tricks Library

AdminStudio
Creating Microsoft App-V Package Upgrades
Using AdminStudio to Prepare Applications for Migration to Windows 7
Automatically Determine a Microsoft App-V Application’s Primary Application Directory
Using AdminStudio to Analyze the Impact of Microsoft OS Patches
Testing Windows Installer Packages for Application Virtualization Compatibility
Effective MSI Package Version Management
Configuring AdminStudio's Repackager to Ensure Optimal Installation Capture
Novell snAppShot versus AdminStudio's Repackager
Setting Isolation Options for Citrix Virtual Profiles
Scanning InstallShield Setups for Additional Data
Isolating Applications
Guidelines for Creating Custom Actions that Meet Windows Vista Logo Requirements
Specifying the Required Execution Level for Your Setup Launcher on Windows Vista
Capturing the Right Data for Software Packaging Requests
Creating AdminStudio Editor Templates to be Used within the Repackager IDE
Introduction to ActionText and ActionData on the SetupProgress Dialog Box
3 Tips for Your Repackaging-Related Questions
Performing Silent Installations and Uninstallations
Removing Additional Product Data During Uninstallation
New Technologies Available to Improve Repackaging
Avoid Issues with Simultaneous Application Catalog Users
Sharing Common Configuration Settings among Different Users
How to Install a Windows Service to a User Account
Install an Advertised Application Using a COM Object
Packaging Applications for Locked-Down Environments
How To Quickly and Easily Provide Access to Your Application Catalog Data While Maintaining Data Integrity
The Power of Custom ACE Rules
AdminStudio and Marimba Desktop Distribution
Installing MSIs Supplied in Self-Extracting EXEs
Options for Deploying Transforms
Preparing an Automated Build
Repackaging: Definition of a Base Image
Using the Developer Automation Interface with Perl
Creating A Virtual Directory in IIS
Preventing Uninstallation: the Legacy Differences Test
Developing Installations for Locked Environments
ConflictSolver Database Permissions Table
Merge Modules
Restricting the features available to your end-user when deploying a third party MSI package using InstallShield AdminStdio's Tuner
What is InstallDir? Why should you care?
User Interface Levels for MSI Installations
Installation and Uninstallation Conditions
Minimizing Reboots on Windows Vista Systems
FlexNet Connect
InstallAnywhere
Understanding Java Virtual Machine Selection in InstallAnywhere
Enumerating InstallAnywhere Variables at Run Time
Evaluation of InstallAnywhere Variables
Determine if an End-User has Admin Privileges
InstallAnywhere Runtime Command-Line Arguments
Creating Custom Code Panels Using the Eclipse Visual Editor
Creating Custom Code Panels Using NetBeans
InstallShield
Modifying File-Transfer Behavior for MSIs
Executable Custom Actions for MSIs
Designing an Update-Friendly MSI Installation
Working with MSI Features and Components
Disabling the Change Button in the Feature-Selection Dialog Box
Digital Signing and Security for Windows Vista
Using Dialog Box Themes in InstallShield 2008
Using a style sheet to format an XML project file
About component, package, product and upgrade codes in Windows Installer
Custom Setup Options in Windows Installer
Detecting Internet Explorer and Other Applications with Windows Installer
Detecting a Pending Reboot in the User Interface Sequence
Installation Phases and In-Script Execuction Options for Custom Actions in Windows Installer
Writing Windows Installer DLLs
Using and Controling The RadioButton
MSI Tip: Building Releases with the InstallShield Automation Interface
Creating an Internet Shortcut with InstallShield
Using MSI Automation to Modify a Developer 7 Project
Using SETUPEXEDIR in InstallScript
User Interface Levels for MSI Installations
Installation and Uninstallation Conditions
Changing Dialog Box Bitmaps
Accessing the MSI Database at Run Time
Creating a Shortcut to a File on a Drive that does not Exist
Determining if MSI Setup Was Launched from Setup.exe
MSI Properties and Deferred Execution
Creating Custom Dialog Enabling Mutually Exclusive Features
Saving MSI property values to make them available after the initial installation
Using Check Boxes in Windows Installer
Hiding the Cancel Button on the MSI Progress Dialog
How to determine what .NET Framework version is installed on a user’s system
Reading XML Data with a System Search
Launching Your Application after Installation
Windows Installer Tip: New Project Validation Options in InstallShield 2008
MSI Tip: Setting INSTALLDIR Based on a System Search
7 Reasons Why your Installations May Fail on Windows Vista (And How You Can Fix Them)
Minimizing Reboots on Windows Vista Systems
MSI Tip: Writing to the Log File from a Custom Action
MSI Tip: Authoring a Custom ICE using InstallShield 2008