- MSI SOFTWARE PACKAGING TOOLS INSTALL
- MSI SOFTWARE PACKAGING TOOLS UPDATE
- MSI SOFTWARE PACKAGING TOOLS PATCH
You can still change it accordingly of course, but it’s a time saver and also brings in consistent data: Fields like ‘Publisher Name’ and ‘Version’ are taken from the setup and validated. Looking at ‘Package information’, here’s another benefit.
We also include the transform file we’ve created in the beginning and any other parameter which helps repackaging:
MSI SOFTWARE PACKAGING TOOLS INSTALL
We bring in the silent switches to install Notepad++. Then here’s what saves you time repackaging Notepad++. This is needed when you want to want to convert the MSIX package to a MSIX app attach VHD: Which checks whether you’ve installed the MSIX Packaging Tool and asks for the path for the msixmgr.exe tool. That’s why only the first option is enabled for now: Now the first release will only support packaging on a local machine, but we’re working on support for remote packaging too. Which means using our MSI Configuration Wizard you’re able to configure this and save your prefered configuration option in a Transform file (MST) which can be brought in during unattended installation of the MSI.Īfter you’ve downloaded the setup from the Setup Store, or selected a setup from a local drive or share, select the environment you like to create the package in. This MSI setup has an option to disable the Auto Updater. That’s why we look at alternatives like this Notepad++ setup. You basically end up with two installations: one legacy, one MSIX. And that ruins the advantage of using an MSIX installation then.
MSI SOFTWARE PACKAGING TOOLS UPDATE
Which would effectively trigger a download from the Notepad++ download page and a fresh installation of the non-MSIX Notepad++ update next to your MSIX installation. Most important one is that the user, after installing Notepad++ using an MSIX package, can opt for installing an update from within Notepad++’s interface.
The only option is to create and add a config.xml after the installation, to switch off the update options and notifications of Notepad++.įor various reasons this is very important to configure when converting Notepad++ to MSIX. One of the issues with the legacy setup for Notepad++ is that you can’t disable the update check in Notepad++ during or just after the installation, using this setup. He decided not to provide an MSI for various reasons. Don Ho is the creator and publisher of this particular application. Let’s look how this works for Notepad++ since this is the application which is used most often in all kind of WVD blogs and demo’s. After you’ve downloaded and installed the MSIX Repackaging Tool from the Microsoft Store, you’re able to use this Repackaging Wizard to process both local setups and setups downloaded from our Liquit Setup Store, to quickly convert them to MSIX. Recently support for the MSIX Repackaging Tool has been added to this list. The Repackaging Wizard uses the most popular packaging tools like Flexera’s AdminStudio, the Microsoft App-V Sequencer or Turbo Studio to simplify and speed up repackaging to MSI or to a virtual application.
MSI SOFTWARE PACKAGING TOOLS PATCH
Liquit Setup Commander is part of our Liquit Release & Patch Management offering. That’s why we have added a new option to the Repackaging Wizard of Liquit Setup Commander to convert these to MSIX. I’m talking about Win32 applications like 7-Zip, Adobe Reader DC, Google Chrome, Dropbox, Firefox, Microsoft Power BI Desktop, Notepad++, WinSCP etc. Reality is that, up to today, none of the vendors, for which we have application titles in the Liquit Setup Store, have released an MSIX equivalent of their Win32 application setups. For Generating VHD’s for selected MSIX packages the msixmgr tool is used. Liquit Workspace supports MSIX app attach for Microsoft WVD natively (a blog about that including a video will be available soon).