{"id":807,"date":"2017-12-01T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T10:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=807"},"modified":"2020-01-09T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T08:10:10","slug":"what-is-msi-studio-and-its-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/what-is-msi-studio-and-its-use\/","title":{"rendered":"What is MSI Studio and its use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>created the topic: what is MSI Studio and its use?<\/strong><br \/>\n#MSI Studio Standard Edition<\/p>\n<p>Create, edit, manage, and re-package MSIs.<\/p>\n<p># MSI Studio Pro<\/p>\n<p>All the features of the Standard MSI Studio plus Zero Touch Testing and Conflict Resolution. Resolve problems with conflicting application installers before they occur.<\/p>\n<p># MSI Studio for Configuration Manager<\/p>\n<p>MSI Studio can pass that package to Configuration Manager and automatically add package details to the management database.<\/p>\n<p>Popular Features<\/p>\n<p>Discover all the features that make MSI Studio the most complete software packaging and application installer.<\/p>\n<p>   *<br \/>\n     Repackage On Any Machine<\/p>\n<p>     Connect to a target computer to monitor the files and settings changed by a legacy application installer and capture them in an MSI.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Comprehensive MSI Editor<\/p>\n<p>     Intuitive graphical interface to change installation preferences. Components and Features are displayed in a tree view allowing easy drag-and-drop of resource items between them.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Wizards<\/p>\n<p>     Walk through many of the most common MSI management tasks with a easy to use Wizard.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Compare MSI Packages<\/p>\n<p>     View the difference between 2 MSI files by viewing the changes in the table view with color coded rows, or export the differences to a text file.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Legacy Application Support<\/p>\n<p>     Monitor changes from a legacy application installer and create a well structured MSI.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Completely Customizable Projects<\/p>\n<p>     The Custom Action wizard allows you to create any type of custom action and add them to your sequence. Easily set the processing type, execution and scheduling.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Access to Deleted Project Components<\/p>\n<p>     A recycle bin allows you to reintroduce any deleted rows.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Complete COM Entry Management<\/p>\n<p>     Convert registry table entries to COM table entries and back to registry tables. Extract COM entries from the files in your project and add to the registry table.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Modular Design Architecture<\/p>\n<p>     Create merge modules from files in your project. Once stored as modules, you can search for merge modules to add to new projects.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Access to CAB Contents<\/p>\n<p>     Easily extract cab files and their contents from within MSI files.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Multiple Validation Options<\/p>\n<p>     Projects can be validated (ICE or MCE) and errors are displayed in the output window.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Self-Extracting Options<\/p>\n<p>     Create a self-extracting bootstrapped executable for your MSI. Check and install the windows installer runtimes from the bootstrapper.<\/p>\n<p>MSI Studio Pro<\/p>\n<p>Includes all the features from MSI Studio Standard edition plus these great features:<\/p>\n<p>   *<br \/>\n     Zero-Touch Testing<\/p>\n<p>     Easily create a special MSI package which simulates the effect of the application installer on the target computer, but without actually making any changes.<br \/>\n   *<br \/>\n     Conflict Resolution<\/p>\n<p>     Add a repository for storing MSI packages, which allows for easy reporting on where each package might conflict with others. Find and resolve problems with conflicting application installers before they occur!<\/p>\n<p>Reference<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptlogic.com\/Products\/msi-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.scriptlogic.com\/Products\/msi-studio\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prasad replied the topic: Re: what is MSI Studio and its use?<\/strong><br \/>\nPrasad replied the topic: Re: what is MSI Studio and its use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>created the topic: what is MSI Studio and its use? #MSI Studio Standard Edition Create, edit, manage, and re-package MSIs. # MSI Studio Pro All the features of the Standard&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-msi-packages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}