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byDaniel: Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:09 am; Forum: Sample Projects; Topic: Suite installation - triggering system reboot after each setup installation; Replies: 0; Views: 319203

Suite installation - triggering system reboot after each setup installation

Hi, Have you ever had the task to bundle multiple setup packages into a suite installer and trigger a system reboot after some of the bundled packages installation? If so, this task should be fairly simple to implement with Advanced Installer. All you need to do is to create a master setup project a...

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byDaniel: Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:28 pm; Forum: Sample Projects; Topic: Deploying ZIP archives; Replies: 0; Views: 312521

Deploying ZIP archives

Hi, You may face the requirement to deploy a ZIP archive and maybe to extract its content as part of an installation process. In Advanced Installer you will find built-in support to handle the zipped resources deployment. In this post I will expose how you could easily deploy an embedded ZIP file an...

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byDaniel: Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:56 am; Forum: Building Installers; Topic: Create Desktop Shortcut for MSIX Applications; Replies: 2; Views: 22991

Re: Create Desktop Shortcut for MSIX Applications

Hi,

I have just posted a workaround solution about how to create a desktop shortcut with an MSIX package:

Have a look and see how this works for you.

All the best,
Daniel

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byDaniel: Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:02 am; Forum: Sample Projects; Topic: Create Desktop Shortcut through an MSIX package; Replies: 1; Views: 209778

Create Desktop Shortcut through an MSIX package

Hi, UPDATE: Starting with Advanced Installer v19.3 you can include a desktop shortcut in an MSIX package by simply creating the shortcut in "Desktop" folder from "Files and Folders" section of your setup project. screenshot.jpg When using previous Advanced Installer versions please use the workaroun...

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byDaniel: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:33 pm; Forum: Sample Projects; Topic: How to display interactive user message during an Intune System deployment; Replies: 0; Views: 306666

How to display interactive user message during an Intune System deployment

Hi, Let's suppose that you need to create a suite installer that wraps up one (or more) packages and it is silently deployed through an Intune deployment run under System account. There may be the case when you need to display a UI message to the logged on user prior to silently installing the suite...

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byDaniel: Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:31 am; Forum: Common Problems; Topic: AppPool Identity and Folder Permissions; Replies: 6; Views: 32630

Re: AppPool Identity and Folder Permissions

Hi, We have further investigated on this and it seems you can accomplish this request by using the following workaround solution: 1. in "Files and Folders" page make sure you check the "Keep existing permissions" flag on your folder permissions dialog 2. in "Dialog Editor" page select "InstallExecut...

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byDaniel: Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:28 pm; Forum: Common Problems; Topic: Oracle database installer is throwing error; Replies: 4; Views: 30027

Re: Oracle database installer is throwing error

Hi, Using latest version of Advanced Installer (18.6.1) you should be able to successfully run SQL scripts and test the ODBC connection to both types of Oracle Server installation: locally installed Oracle Database and remote installed Oracle Database servers. To do so you have to use a custom conne...

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byDaniel: Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:22 pm; Forum: Sample Projects; Topic: Configure an Oracle Server SQL connection into your setup project; Replies: 0; Views: 242712

Configure an Oracle Server SQL connection into your setup project

This solution should work for both type of Oracle Database server installation: local running Oracle Database server and remote installed Oracle Database server. I. To test ODBC connection and run an SQL script on an Oracle server you should configured our “SQL Databases“ page like this: image1.jpg ...

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byDaniel: Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:02 pm; Forum: Common Problems; Topic: VS2019 integration, cant get publishing to work with installer; Replies: 2; Views: 26690

Re: VS2019 integration, cant get publishing to work with installer

Hi Hans, Not so sure why this happens. I tested the scenario but cannot replicate the behavior. Can you please send us your VS solution (SLN file) and all of the project files it includes (only the project definition files without the source code files) by email at support at advancedinstaller dot c...

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byDaniel: Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:29 am; Forum: Common Problems; Topic: Azure DevOps Build with AI Plugin; Replies: 3; Views: 28588

Re: Azure DevOps Build with AI Plugin

Hi, Advanced Installer saves the path to your app output files as a relative path to the .AIP file location on disk. Thus when uploading your .AIP file into your Azure DevOps repository you should make sure the .AIP file is hosted in the same location (relative to the path of your app output files) ...

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byDaniel: Fri Sep 10, 2021 7:59 am; Forum: Common Problems; Topic: Advanced Installer update - Viewer.exe Virus; Replies: 1; Views: 25876

Re: Advanced Installer update - Viewer.exe Virus

Hi and welcome to our forums, The advinst.iso file is an image file we mount on virtual machine clients (to install dependencies for our Repackager tool) when you need to repackaging operations in virtual machines . I have tested and replicated the detection. I can assure you this is a false positiv...

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byDaniel: Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:47 am; Forum: Building Installers; Topic: Powershell not running - 18.6.1; Replies: 3; Views: 27822

Re: Powershell not running - 18.6.1

Hi, I'm not sure why this happens. We have tested the scenario but everything works fine in our tests. Can you please restart PowerShell and run again your script and see if this helps? Otherwise, can you please proceed like this: 1. open an elevated window of command prompt (using "Run as admin" co...