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Msix startup programs
Msix startup programs

The new way of dealing with Startup Application in your MSIX package

This article explores Microsoft's recommended solution for managing your Startup applications, when deployed as an MSIX package.

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Alex Marin

November 28th, 2019 · 2min read

#MSIX
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Banner

Windows Installer Role-based Guide

For those new to Windows deployment/management, Windows Installer is Microsoft's solution used for the installation, removal, but also maintenance of software. Windows Installer was released for the first time when Windows 95 came in and has been developed over time since then.

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Horatiu Vladasel

November 20th, 2019 · 3min read

#MSI #WINDOWS
Ai v16
Ai v16

Advanced Installer 16.5 Released

Working on your Windows 10 modernization project? We have a new powerful editor for you, the MSIX Package Editor. Get an instant view of your package contents and customize any resource with just a few clicks.

November 13th, 2019

Scenesccmbanner
Scenesccmbanner

Migration Upgrade from SCCM 2012 to Current Branch (1902)

In November 2015, Microsoft released the first edition of System Center Configuration Manager called SCCM (Current Branch) 1511. And since then, Microsoft decided to change its name to “SCCM YYMM (Year Month)” following the same naming convention as for Windows 10 YYMM (example Windows 10 1809).

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Radu Popescu

October 18th, 2019 · 8min read

#SCCM #WINDOWS-10 #MIGRATION
Ai v16
Ai v16

Advanced Installer 16.4 Released

PowerShell Automation? Does it sound familiar to you?

October 8th, 2019

Bundles-Wix vs. Advanced Installer

If you are in the software packaging business, you might have heard of WIX bootstrapper. This was released by Microsoft back in 2004, and it was the first ever open source license project for them.

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Alex Marin

September 26th, 2019 · 6min read

#WIX #MSI

Disable Updates in Google Chrome Enterprise

One fundamental rule in almost any enterprise regarding applications is to disable the auto-updates feature. However, from an enterprise point of view, it makes sense.

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Alex Marin

September 12th, 2019 · 4min read

#ENTERPRISE-PACKAGING #REPACKAGER
Ai v16
Ai v16

Advanced Installer 16.3 Released

It seems our PowerShell Automation support is a hit, we already have a ton of improvement requests, and some are now ready, extending our registry and folders management options.

September 4th, 2019

Recache MST

Sometimes you might end up in a situation when you cannot uninstall a package. We already covered how you can recache an MSI in our user guide. However, we noticed that this might not work for transforms (MSTs) and a different solution is needed.

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Alex Marin

August 28th, 2019 · 2min read

#MST #MSI

Packaging Series:Convert VLC Media Player to MSIX

VLC media player (or in short VLC) is an open-source, cross-platform media player created by VideoLan. At the moment, its one of the most popular players on the market.Let’s see if we can convert it to the new MSIX technology by Microsoft and what challenges we face in doing so.

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Alex Marin

August 21st, 2019 · 3min read

#MSIX #PACKAGING-SERIES
Ai v16
Ai v16

Advanced Installer 16.2 Released

In this new version, we have focused on solving many of the issues reported by our community. With more than 70 bug fixes, we are proud to announce that this is one of the most stability focused release this year.

August 1st, 2019

Packaging Series: How to build an MSIX package for Notepad++

Notepad++ is the most popular free source code editor. Since MSIX is the future of packaging, let’s see how we can repackage Notepad++ to MSIX by using Advanced Installer.

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Alex Marin

July 17th, 2019 · 3min read

#MSIX #PACKAGING-SERIES
Ai v16
Ai v16

Advanced Installer 16.1 Released

PS Automation, PS Automation, PS Automation, PS Automation, PS Automation...

July 2nd, 2019

AppData Management in MSI/MSIX/APPV

Let’s assume that you have an application that installs files or registry in a user location. In this article we explain how you can install that information for all users by using MSI, APP-V or the new Microsoft installer technology, MSIX, a short cleanup process description, and a short comparison between them.

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Alex Marin

June 24th, 2019 · 5min read

#MSI #MSIX #APPV #APPDATA

Updates Deployment: Major Upgrade vs Patch

In the lifecycle of an application package, it comes a point when an update is required. Whether we want to fix minor bugs and vulnerabilities, or we come up with some improvements and big changes to our app, we must deliver it as an update.

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Radu Popescu

June 6th, 2019 · 3min read

#MSI #UPDATE
Scenewin10migration
Scenewin10migration

Windows 10 Migration for Enterprises

In January 2020, Windows 7 end of life support comes in place. This means that users won’t receive any updates from Microsoft, and companies have to pay extra for the next three years if they want them.

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Alex Marin

May 31st, 2019 · 17min read

#MSIX #SCCM #WINDOWS-10 #MIGRATION
Ai v16
Ai v16

Advanced Installer 16.0 Released

In the past 12 months, we've worked hard on setting the foundation of the new packaging and deployment technology, MSIX. We also continued listening to your feedback, and that led us towards one of our biggest bug-fixing effort in years, along with some important architectural redesigns, all aimed at making your work easier.

May 28th, 2019

Installing a test certificate directly from an MSIX package

All MSIX packages must be digitally signed, no exception. In order to digitally sign your MSIX package, you can use a self-signed certificate. However, you need to ensure that same certificate used to sign the MSIX package is imported into the Computer's Trusted Root Certification Authorities on the target device where you plan to deploy your MSIX package. Otherwise, your MSIX will fail to install.

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Horatiu Vladasel

May 17th, 2019 · 2min read

#MSIX

Context menu in MSIX

In our days, many apps offer you a context menu. A context menu is a pop-up menu that appears after a user interaction, for example, in Windows, when you perform a right-click. However, there are two types of context menus:

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Alex Marin

May 10th, 2019 · 2min read

#MSIX
Msix deployment sccm
Msix deployment sccm

MSIX Per-User Deployment via SCCM

Before we begin, it is important we know that starting with SCCM version 1806, MSIX application is supported in System Center Configuration Manager. Integrating MSIX apps in previous versions, does not work. Also the current version of Windows 10 that supports MSIX is version 1809. It is announced that Microsoft will add support for MSIX also on other versions of Windows 10.

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Radu Popescu

May 3rd, 2019 · 4min read

#MSIX #SCCM
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