In 2018, Microsoft delivered a breakthrough packaging technology to enable a flawless application packaging process, including enhanced features to help IT Pros and Developers carry out updates and customizations in a more reliable way.

Starting with version 17.3, Advanced Installer natively supports Device Guard Signing. This feature is of most use for the vendors to prepare their software product installers to be used in enterprise environments.

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

Building packages can be quite challenging and complicated at times, this is why Advanced Installer offers a way to have an overview of your package content as well as creating reports to document the entire process.

Document your repackaging process and save time on package maintenance operations and training new packagers, by using the Repackager Assistant.

If you're a software vendor doing multiple releases a year, you're bound to hit (and hate) this problem - false-positive detection by antivirus solutions. It's just one of the neverending problems of ISVs that's eating a chunk of our time, without any ROI.

The Notes pane in Advanced Installer allows you to add comments just as you do when you write code for your application. Saving from the horrible task of having to edit the .AIP source file in raw XML, we want to encourage you to document the installer configuration as you are used to document code.

Come and talk to us in Paris on October 4-5, at Microsoft experiences'16. You can find us at the ExperTeam booth, our official partner in France.

Microsoft has announced starting this summer App-V will be a built-in Windows feature. This brings desktop virtualization to a new level. If you want to learn more on the topic from the industry experts join us in Boston at BriForum 2016, between July 26-28th.

Our team just came back from London. We were extremely happy to be one of the sponsors for what is probably the best conference on desktop virtualization from Europe, BriForum.

A vulnerability in all Windows OSes allows a malicious DLL to hijack your EXE installer upon launch. While the EXE shows your legitimate digital signature the attacker DLL will be able to run in the background.

Advanced Installer's trial and licensing feature allows potential clients to evaluate your application before purchasing. It enables them to fully activate the application only with your consent, after receiving a valid license key.

A bug in Windows Installer expands environment variables present in a folder's name and stops the installation with an error, due to an invalid folder name.