Advanced Installer 11.5 is the first dedicated installer tool that helps you package your applications for next generation deployment in the Windows App Store. Comprehensive AppX support allows you to start from scratch or import and modify an already existing package.

MSIX/APPX is the next generation, simple and secure packaging format for Microsoft Windows. With Advanced Installer you can easily create Windows Store App packages, having your application ready for deployment in Windows 10 and beyond.

Use the Advanced Installer support to create, update or remove elements, attributes and comments inside XML files or to perform custom searches in the XML files already present on the target system. The XML Editor and XML Search features allow you to:

The 11.4 release brings a refreshed User Interface implementing the latest Microsoft Windows 8.1 Modern UI principles. Enjoy a simpler, airier user interface while working on your installers.

The 11.3 release upgrades our System Center Configuration Manager Deployment support with the ability to deploy App-V packages to SCCM and to deploy setups as SCCM applications.

The 11.2 release brings the ability to configure Windows Server Roles on install. Have your installers prepare server machines for their purpose with just a few clicks in Advanced Installer.

Establish the required deployment environment on the target operating system by installing prerequisites along with your software. With Advanced Installer's intuitive GUI you're only a few clicks away from setting up sophisticated Windows configuration like:

The 11.1 release amplifies the power of the repackager by bringing support for Hyper-V, Microsoft's native virtualization technology. Together with the existing VMWare support, automatically repackaging legacy installers in clean VMs is easier than ever.

Advanced Installer's AutoRun customizes the icon and label that will be displayed in Windows Explorer. Additionally it can customize the commands that will be available from the CD/DVD's context menu, like:

Developing Microsoft ASP.NET web apps? Advanced Installer can help you easily deploy your applications in standard Windows Installer MSI packages. Quickly configure all the necessary settings and requirements so that your application is fully functional and ready to serve once the installation is done.

Upgrade the standard MSI extension design and functionality with Advanced Installer's powerful bootstrapper. With Windows Installer technology still at its core, the EXE setup can bring significant improvements, for an even better installation experience for your users.

Advanced Installer is a vital tool in InnovMetric's chain of development. The key words that would express what Advanced Installer represents in technology of application packaging are reliability, scalability and versatility.

Web applications often require additional information from databases during installation. Advanced Installer's SQL Databases support can be used as a standalone feature to configure SQL servers or in collaboration with the Internet Information Services feature for complete web applications deployment scenarios.

The difference between a good installer UI and an awesome installer UI often lies in the little differences, the small tweaks and customizations that make your installer just perfect for your application and your users.

Advanced Installer 11 brings a number of features long requested by system administrators and deployment engineers everywhere. With the newly built-in SCCM support you can create your compliant package and seamlessly deploy it to your System Center Configuration Manager all within the user friendly Advanced Installer IDE.

System Center Configuration Manager is the standard application deployment solution from Microsoft. It simplifies the complex task of distributing applications to servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices across large or complex networks. The software can be installed silently and automatically to the specifically targeted users or computers.

The 10.9 release opens new horizons for Mac Java programmers with Java 7 on Mac OS X support and the ability to bundle JREs.

Atlassian turned to Advanced Installer to make sure that customer experience for its SourceTree for Windows users was easy, fast and reliable. With Advanced Installer, Atlassian's team could also create, customizable and easy to maintain setup packages for their software application.

The 10.8 release brings the ability to easily visualise the differences between two MSI or MST packages, allowing you to easily spot mistakes or unintended modifications.

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 are heading rapidly to become some of the most important operating systems created by Microsoft, taking software development and deployment in a bold new direction. Throughout these changes, assuring your existing applications install and run correctly on Windows 8/8.1 should be your top priority.