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This category contains MSI Application Packaging scripts, tips, tutorials and best practises.

Running Powershell Login Scripts with Group Policy

Posted on January 16th, 2021

We’ve recently experienced issues related to running Powershell login scripts with Group Policy.  These were caused by delays in login script execution, and so this post details a more optimal approach to run your Powershell login scripts asynchronously. Group Policy … Continue reading →

Tagged powershell login script |

Configuring Excel Automation Add-ins with VBScript

Posted on October 22nd, 2019

This is a replica (with better formatting) of a post I made over at ITNinja (or AppDeploy back then!) several years ago which discusses configuring Excel automation add-ins.  I’m not even sure if it still works but it’s great as … Continue reading →

Tagged Excel Automation, excel.application |

Repackaging a PDF Printer Driver

Posted on June 28th, 2019

I’ve been working on a PDF printer driver recently.  It was installed as part of another product – a crumby old InstallShield setup.exe that didn’t install or uninstall silently (and response files didn’t work).  As such this blog post will … Continue reading →

Tagged driver, pnputil.exe, printui.dll, printuientry |

InstallShield Could Not Find File

Posted on February 6th, 2018

My current client uses the standalone InstallShield repackager to snapshot applications on virtual machines.  When we copy the captured project back to the host machine and try to build the project, we sometimes see an error where InstallShield could not … Continue reading →

Tagged ISPathVariable, ISProjectFolder, SOURCEFILEPATH |

Clean Up the Windows Start Menu

Posted on January 12th, 2018

Sometimes after installing a setup.exe with limited command line switches, we may want to clean up the Windows start menu.  Usually as part of our Application Packaging best practises we remove ‘Uninstall’ shortcuts, ‘Update’ shortcuts, and shortcuts to readme’s and … Continue reading →

Tagged Start Menu |

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 3)

Posted on July 27th, 2017

This post continues from part 1 of the driver signing series found here and part 2 of the series found here. Part 3 of our driver signing guide deviates slightly from the self-signed certificate approach. My current client uses Active Directory … Continue reading →

Tagged SignTool.exe |

A Guide to Signing Un-signed Drivers (Part 2)

Posted on April 29th, 2016

This post continues from part 1 of the driver signing series which can be found here.  Part 3 of the series can be found here. It’s been a while since I looked at signing un-signed drivers I must admit. In … Continue reading →

Tagged driver, Unsigned Driver |

Create a Symbolic Link from a Custom Action

Posted on August 25th, 2015

Creating a symbolic link can be achieved using the MKLINK internal command.  Internal commands are native to the windows command shell and are NOT executable files.  As such, we must call these commands via the windows command shell as follows: … Continue reading →

Tagged MKLINK, Symbolic Link |

Create a URL Shortcut using the IniFile table

Posted on August 13th, 2015

With a Windows Installer there are a couple of ways we can create a URL shortcut, but I like to create a URL shortcut using the IniFile table.  In this example, we create a file called ‘Alkane App.url’ on the … Continue reading →

Tagged IniFile, URL Shortcut |

Access a Windows Installer property in a Deferred Custom Action

Posted on October 30th, 2014

Description: This post describes how to access a Windows Installer property in a Deferred Custom Action.  Deferred, commit, and rollback custom actions can only access a limited number of built-in Windows Installer properties – CustomActionData, ProductCode, and UserSID.  In brief … Continue reading →

Tagged custom action, deferred, property, windows installer |

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