Automation. A word heavily used around industries, especially the software one. A word that arouses great interest for every manager, service, or business owner.

Every new MSIX package we build allows us to learn more and improve the tools we build. The whole Advanced Installer team got involved.

Although it’s a rare scenario - you might run into the situation where you need to continue the installation of a certain application after reboot. We are talking about a silent installation that doesn't require admin rights or any input from the user.

As a standard, Advanced Installer automatically creates the components when generating the product package. The automatic process respects a strict set of Windows Installer rules, together with a series of best practices we have gathered from our customers during the years.

Since 2018, when Advanced Installer was named The Microsoft Launch Partner for MSIX technology, we've worked on setting its foundation and continuously bringing you powerful tools - all with the goal of making your job easier.

We learned in How does Files Redirection work with MSIX that user data files, either from the project or created by executables, are automatically redirected to: %localappdata%\packages\PublisherName.AppName_hash\LocalCache.

Every software packaging department has its own rules when it comes to MSI - whether we talk about naming convention (package naming, product naming) or package description and comments.

Nowadays, with Windows 7 running out of extended support, for those organizations who have not migrated to Windows 10 yet there is a race against time.

We plan a full year of MSIX concepts ready for you to master. Explore our latest feature, Windows Services for MSIX - install, control, and customize the newly added service with only a few clicks. For a quick demo, check the video below.

In this article, we go through:

Lessons I have learned from making many mistakes in my enterprise software packaging newbie (and not only) years.

Are you a PowerShell fan? Check this awesome feature that allows you to edit an MSI or simply create an MST file.

In our IT Pro world, the best practice we have in place regarding app deployment is that all applications are installable per machine. No matter if it’s an MSI, EXE, or other custom types of installers.

The purpose of this article is to show you how redirection works and how you can add your user files in the project using Advanced Installer GUI.

In this article, we went through the process of building an MSI package for an Electron application and we have delved into how to parametrize a setting within the newly created Electron MSI package.

When it comes to registry inside the MSIX container, we all know that by default there is no direct access from the machine.

The latest version of Advanced Installer brings you exciting new features and improvements ready to be discovered.

Just think about how many times you needed to debug your applications.And every single time you repeat the long commands in PowerShell , you wish it was a better alternative out there. Well, we felt that pain too. So, as software development is in our blood, we developed a tool to solve forever this pain.

If you want to upload an MSIX to the Microsoft Store, you might be overwhelmed by the process, or not know where to start. This article makes each step clear – you’ll have your app up and running in no time at all.

In our previous MSIX related blog articles, we’ve approached some of the MSIX particularities and different scenarios such as Digital Signing, MSIX Deployment via SCCM, MS-AppInstaller Web Protocol, and Context Menu.