With Advanced Installer 12, the Advanced Installer Team is delighted to add another killer tool to the deployment engineer's arsenal: Installer Analytics. Uncover the missing piece of business intelligence in understanding how your application gets deployed to your users' computers.

Every time a new version of Firefox has to be installed you must search or test if the settings from the config file have changed, to check if they are still valid or not.

Advanced Installer's App-V Editor exclusively enables you to open, edit and save App-V 5.x packages from an easy to use GUI or CLI. Using our high level interface you will be able to configure various elements in the App-V package:

The 11.9 release brings our new App-V editor. Quickly modify anything in your App-V packages from an user friendly GUI.

Performing MSI quick-edits from Advanced Installer's user interface is extremely easy and intuitive. Configure MSI installers on the fly and save changes as MST transform files, App-V or ThinApp package types.

The 11.8 release simplifies browsing for IIS websites and application pools. It also brings major enhancements in our virtualization support, with the new ability to import App-V 5.0 packages.

The 11.7 release simplifies browsing for SQL servers and databases, also integrating the custom UI required for SQL connections.

Advanced Installer is the key to packaging and deploying every new version of EmEditor globally. Automating its distribution means more time can be invested in its development.

ISO 19770-2 is an international standard that aims to simplify identification of software applications installed on a computer. Advanced Installer allows you to create setup packages that deploy specific information required by this standard to accurately identify the installed application.

The 11.6 release simplifies working with Virtual Machines for repackaging or testing your installers. Create VM profiles containing your virtualization preferences then reuse them every time you need. Automate the UI interaction for even quicker testing of your installers in VMs.

If you are an active Microsoft MVP or MCT, you can request for a free NFR (not-for-redistribution) Advanced Installer Architect license for your personal use.

Microsoft's Web Deploy technology allows you to copy resources, configure databases, certificates, access control and other required dependencies. Use Advanced Installer to integrate this process into your product's installer and target endpoints such as:

Continuous Integration Include the installer in a shared mainline and make deployment part of the automatic build. Through its comprehensive command line interface, Advanced Installer offers full support for Continuous Integration of the installer build process.

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 Appx packages for Windows Store, 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 Advanced Installer & PacKit in Architect Bundle Plan 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: