There are installations that are completely silent for the user, not even a progress bar, absolutely nothing. Think about forensic software, or other tracking/monitoring software.

Then there are installations where the user needs a nice notification. The users already received email(s) about the coming installation, but when the day comes how many remembered that email or even read it.

In addition to ErikW's article: Wise Package Studio, Part 11: Testing Our Packages I am attaching two examples that I created which can be used as 'sign off' documents of tested Application(s).

In Part 3 the Software and User data classes will be covered. Whether you need to create a custom report, or a custom computer filter based on Inventory Data in Inventory Solution 7.0, knowing the database schema is important. In Inventory Solution 7.0 the data structure for inventory has been completely revamped. If you are familiar with the data structure for Inventory Solution 6.x, or if you are new to Inventory Solution in version 7.0, this document provides technical details on the new data structure.

Properties are variables used by Windows Installer during installation. The list of Properties is found under the Product tab in the Setup Editor of Wise for Windows Installer.

Creating new default setting for the AClient and resetting all the clients to the new default

A component is the smallest installation unit for the Windows Installer Service. It is a collection of installable resources or just resources. A resource is a file, registry entry, shortcut, type library or the like.

There are many ways to edit an INI file in the machine. Following article describes editing INI file using WiseScript. Using WiseScript one can Add/modify/delete a section and its content.

When we build packages in Wise package studio 7 that we will deploy to our company we have to test the package. Often we just don't know where to start. In this article I will help you further on this road that is not the easiest, but still the most important part of our packaging work.