At Advanced Installer, we’ve been hosting weekly Tech Talks for over a year, where our developers share key insights, lessons learned, and in-depth explorations of topics that help us grow as a team. These sessions have been invaluable for us, and we’re excited to share some of the best takeaways with the wider developer community.

SAP GUI is the graphical user interface client used to access SAP systems. It’s an essential tool for organizations that rely on SAP applications. Automating and customizing the installation process not only saves time but also ensures consistency across multiple systems.

When deploying MSI packages, IT professionals often encounter issues during installation, including stalls at the product information publishing phase. This crucial step updates system records so applications can be properly managed.

When installing software, any warning or error during the installation process can negatively impact the user experience and in medium to large organizations it can even disrupt workflows

One common question packagers often ask themself is what type of installer to use when patching an application.

Whether it's in-house applications, custom-made software, or applications from third-party vendors, there are times when we need to package them with a URL shortcut.

It is commonly known that MSX technology comes with a set of limitations that most of the packagers must deal with, in spite of all its benefits.

Applications behave differently when running within an MSIX container. For example, you cannot set a non-executable file as a target for your application by default.

When Win32 applications run inside an MSIX container, they behave differently than when they are installed natively. Because of that, we come across errors in the operations we often perform.

Advanced Installer was the first application to fully support MSIX technology – and we truly believe in its power.

A continuous activity when it comes to any software application is providing security, improvements, and functional upgrades. But what happens if the end-user has made his personal application configurations and a new update arrives? How can we make sure these user preferences are preserved after an update installation?

ASP.NET applications are not something new in the world. However, having a powerful tool that streamlines and deploys your ASP.NET applications is a must these days.

Advanced Installer 22.7 brings important speed improvements and more platform support to make your packaging job easier. This release includes faster dialog loading for Embedded and Enhanced UIs, improved registry exclusion logic during repackaging, and enhanced control over VM profiles and user profile actions.

Creating installers is a delicate and critical task. Since our first release over 20 years ago, we've focused on building a GUI that empowers you to easily create packages, while striving to increase the flexibility required by each of you.

Software isn’t just about capabilities – its UX and design matter too.

Developing complex applications often involves various components, each requiring its own installer. To streamline the build process, it’s important to manage and build all installers within a single solution.

MSIX packaging is a modern solution for deploying applications on Windows devices. However, if you want MSIX-deployed apps to support auto-updates via .appinstaller file on Windows Server, you have to manually install the App Installer Tool.

Everything’s moving so fast in tech right now—security and transparency really need to be top priorities. As part of implementing the National Cyber Strategy released by the White House in 2023, the U.S. government issued best practices instructing developers who sell apps to the public sector to include Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) with their software packages.

Bootstrapper packages might not be the most glamorous topic in software development, but they're essential for ensuring that applications install smoothly and run without a hitch.

Encountering an ODBC connect timeout error during an MSI installation is uncommon but not unheard of.