What you'll learn:
- Able to Repackage the applications
- What is Application Packaging
- How to setup a lab for creating the packages
- How to use Installshield Tool to edit the packages
- How to use Repackager tool
- Install and Uninstall MSI Packages through commandlines / VBScript / Wise Script
- Advantages of Application Packaging
- Hands-on experience on how to upgrade the packages
- Best Practices to create a pacakge
Overview of Application
What is Application Packaging
What is Application Repackaging
Difference b/w Packaging and Repackaging
Windows Installer History
Challenges with the traditional installers (.exe)
Advantages of Application Repackaging
Introduction to AdminStudio and Installshield
Introduction to Repackager and Tuner tool
Lab setup for Repackaging the Applications
Tools required to setup the lab
Introduction to VMWare workstation
How to create and configure the Virtual Machine (VM)
Purpose of Virtual Machine
Installing the Repackaging tools
Repackaging Best Practices
What is image ?
Importance of Clean Machine
Perform the Source Validation
Customizing the application with Installshield
Customize the files and folders
Customize the Registry keys
Customize the Environment Variables, Services, ODBC
Methods to Repackage the Application Using Repackager
Introduction to Remote Repackager
How to configure and access Repackager remotely
What is Installation Monitoring ?
What is SnapShot Method ?
Introduction to Self-healing
What is Advertised Shortcuts
Significance of Advertised Shortcuts
What is Self-Healing
How to find the root cause for the Self-healing
MSI Logical Structure
Introduction to Features
Introduction to Components
Introduction to Resources
Parent – Child Features
Sibling Features
Component Rules
Introduction to Windows Installer Transform (.mst)
When to Create a Transform
How to Create a Transform
Commands to Install Transform
Introduction to Custom Actions
Purpose of Custom Actions
Type of Custom Actions
Custom Action Conditions
Practicals on Custom Actions
Introduction to MSI Upgrades
What is Upgrade ?
Types of MSI Upgrades
Introduction to Small Updates
Introduction to Minor Upgrade
Introduction to Major Upgrade
Commands to Install the each Upgrade
Package Deployment
Commands to install / uninstall
Create a VbScript to Install / Uninstall
Create a Wise Script to Install / Uninstall
Commands to create log files
Commands to do the silent install / uninstall
