Advanced Installer Enterprise was designed to help you build your own product installers easy and fast. Install, update and configure your products safely, securely and reliably.
Advanced Installer simplifies the process of building installer packages by providing a very easy to use, high level interface to the underlying technology.
With this simple, intuitive interface, building an Installer package will take just a few minutes. Start the program, add a few files, change the name, hit the Build button and you are done. No scripts to learn, no seminars to attend.
Here are some key features of "Advanced Installer Enterprise":
Update XML files:
· Insert, replace or remove elements and attributes in XML files
Databases:
· On install configure servers and deploy SQL scripts. Discover and list MS SQL Servers on the network
Patches:
· Point-and-click wizard to build patches for updating your product
Dialog Editor:
· Visually customise existing installer dialogs or create new ones from scratch
Text File Updates:
· Insert, replace or remove strings in any text file installed by your package or already present on the target machine
Enhanced UI:
· A rewritten native, MSI external UI implementation offering updated looks and additional controls
Repackager:
· Capture, customize and repackage existing installations into MSI packages
Direct Table Editor:
· Visually edit your MSIs at database table and row level
Merge Module creation:
· Package the independent components as stand-alone MSM files
Trials and Licensing:
· Add trial and licensing support to your application in just a few simple steps
Drivers:
· Specify drivers for install using the latest Windows Driver Install Frameworks (DIFx)
User Accounts:
· Create user accounts and groups on the user's computer
Scheduler:
· Create and fully configure tasks to be run by the native Windows Scheduler service
AutoRun:
· Quickly enable your product to AutoRun from CDs and DVDs.
· Customizable launcher
Games Explorer & Media Center:
· Register and integrate your games in Windows 7/Vista Game Explorer and Media Center
Windows Firewall:
· Add your application to the exception list during installation, and remove it during uninstallation
Embedded Chainers:
· Embed multiple MSIs in a unified package and install them in a single transaction
SharePoint:
· The included wizard will painlessly create standard MSI installers to deploy SharePoint solutions
Transforms:
· Capture user input during an install or the differences between two MSI databases
Folder Sharing:
· Share folders on install, setting the sharing permissions for secured access
Requirements:
· Pentium 4 class CPU
· 512 MB RAM
· 1024x768 screen resolution
· 256 MB hard drive space
· Windows Installer 2.0
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New features in this release:
· Pre-flight checks for project source files
· Single-dialog installers
· Custom check box control in enhanced user interface
· Predefined properties for localized user accounts and groups
· Determine free disk space predefined custom action
· Redesigned Updater view
· Enhancements to existing features
· Automatic update selection based on target platform (32/64-bit)
· Added project navigation menu in ribbon
· Simplified user interface for selecting digital signing certificates from store
· Support different targets for prerequisite maintenance and uninstall
· Unified the extraction and download folders for all prerequisites
· Added an option for keeping extracted files for feature-based prerequisites
· Added default command line for the updater
· Support different application names for updater auto-restart
· Improved file detection for Visual Basic 6 application import
· Formatted values support for folder sharing
· Added support for configuring LZMA compression method
· ...