June 13, 2001 01:13 PM

Making .msi Files

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Mark Minasi
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Anything that helps me easily get software onto—and more importantly, off of—my computer makes me happy. So, I like the one-click-does-it-all nature of Windows Installer files (i.e., .msi files). But Windows 2000 Ready .msi-formatted applications are scarce, so anyone who wants to make extensive use of .msi files needs to create those files. Fortunately, Win2K Server ships with VERITAS Software's WinINSTALL Limited Edition (LE) tool, which accomplishes ".msi-zing"; unfortunately, you need to do a bit of tinkering to create the perfect .msi file.

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In the spring/summer of 2003 the portion of Chicago-Soft that engineered WALLS was bought by Novadigm. One of the results was that the WALLS application was integrated into one of Novadigm's services called Radia.
hope this helps

William

William6/28/2005 6:57:57 PM

thanks, i was searching for this for couple of weeks now :))))))

Anonymous User 5/30/2005 4:24:26 AM

Straight Forward. So rare. Nice Job.

Anonymous User 3/16/2005 7:17:12 PM

Bad to the bone. You made my day. I was looking for this and also stumbled on your information. What a relief to find the information that I was looking for to help me with the msi file extensions. Don't ever down this website. Thanks....

Anonymous User 2/26/2005 3:38:22 PM

Outstanding reading and extremely easy to understand. You'd have to be a complete idiot not to be able to understand this information. Don't waste your time making a powerpoint presentation. You've done enough.....Best wishes and continued success... :-)

Anonymous User 2/26/2005 3:16:25 PM

Very Informative and Very Easy to Understand.

Thank you for documenting experience with the process. The microsoft knowledge base articles do not give such value.

I could not find walls at WWW.Chicago-Soft.Com.
that was disappointing.


Anonymous User 1/19/2005 10:24:34 AM

Very informative! Thank you

Danh Pham, student, UBC Continue Studies, British Columbia, Canada

Anonymous User 1/15/2005 3:18:42 PM

Exactly what i was after - great work - its people like you that keep people like me lookin good !

brant winter 6/29/2004 12:05:50 AM

Very well done. Easy to understand

Simon Hung 3/21/2004 10:00:50 AM

Difficult to understand, can you do it in point form?

David3/15/2004 2:09:35 AM

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