RELEASED: Windows Installer 4.5 Wednesday, June 4 2008 @ 03:44 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Windows Installer 4.5 has moved from beta to release, the main improvements focus on ... read more RELEASED: Finally .NET Custom Actions For Windows Installer Monday, May 19 2008 @ 10:44 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy It has been a long time coming, but the WIX team has delivered a complete, documented version of support for .NET Custom Actions for Windows Installer ... read more Windows Installer 4.5 In Beta Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 04:19 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy If you'd like to get on the beta of the next release of Windows Installer ... read more Windows Installer COM Advertising and Cross-Product Interaction Thursday, March 15 2007 @ 12:32 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Don't your users hate it when they start a software application that then triggers a request for the installation media of a totally unrelated application?  How about some relief ... read more Symantec Acquires Altiris Tuesday, January 30 2007 @ 01:48 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Symantec has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Altiris.  I have to tell you the first thought that came to my mind ... read more ProcessMonitor - Regmon + Filemon on a Single Process Tuesday, November 21 2006 @ 02:41 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy It has been many moons since I asked Sysinternals if they had thought of combining regmon and filemon for a single process  ... read more UAC in MSI Notes by MSI Team Member Monday, October 9 2006 @ 07:20 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft employee Robert Flaming has been publishing some excellent information about how Vista's UAC and MSI interact  ... read more Wise Package Studio 7 Beta Thursday, May 4 2006 @ 06:55 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Wise has opened up the beta of their next major release of package studio.  Significant enhancements include full integration of SVS (Software Virtualization Solution) with the Repackager, Test Expert and Software Manager also the ability to include RPMs for Linux Packaging ... read more MaSai Editor bought by Script Logic Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 11:26 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The Windows Installer editor formerly known as MaSaI has been acquired by Script Logic... read more FREE: FLEXNet AdminStudio 7 SMS Edition Friday, April 7 2006 @ 04:28 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Macrovision has upgraded their SMS Edition to the version 7 release of AdminStudio... read more Windows Installer 4.0 Video on Channel 9 Thursday, December 15 2005 @ 08:51 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Learn about the details of the Vista version of Windows Installer by the team who actually builds it... read more Tutorial for WIX (Microsoft Open Source Windows Installer Tool for Developers) Monday, December 12 2005 @ 11:00 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Here is a fairly comprehensive tutorial on using WIX.  Those administrators who support in-house developers may find advantages to having in-house developers use WIX to build their packages... read more Microsoft's Windows Installer Team Blog Monday, October 3 2005 @ 02:49 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft's Windows Installer Team has a blog where they disseminate a lot of good information on MSI technology.  The blog handles a lot of Q&A about indepth Windows Installer topics. read more Windows Installer 3.1 V2 - Critical Update For Those Who Repackage Tuesday, September 27 2005 @ 02:20 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Windows Installer 3.1 has been released more than once - unfortunately, if you caught the first release it has a serious bug... read more FREE: 2.0 Release of MS Driver Information Framework (DIFx) Tuesday, July 19 2005 @ 12:27 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy DIFx is Microsoft's first attempt to standard device driver installations and make them more managable.  Included in this kit is Windows Installer... read more MaSaI Editor 2.4 Released Wednesday, July 13 2005 @ 11:36 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin A new version of the most affordable Windows Installer tool for administrators has been released. read more MS Chat: Windows Installer and the Driver Installation Framework Thursday, June 16 2005 @ 10:18 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The Driver Installation Framework is Microsoft's new standard for installing drivers on Windows.  It includes support for driver installation and management via Windows Installer.  This chat... read more