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Top New Features in AdminStudio 8.6

• Thinstall Virtualization Support
Easily generate Thinstall virtual software packages that deploy without conflict.
Virtual applications cut IT costs by eliminating the possibility of conflicts with other applications and the base OS.

AdminStudio now gives you the power to quickly create, edit, and test Thinstall virtual applications. Thinstalled applications require no client-side agents or server infrastructure, making them ideal for many environments.

AdminStudio can automatically convert MSIs directly to Thinstall virtual packages with a few simple mouse clicks. It comes with a Thinstall Assistant that saves you time and effort by walking you through the virtualization process.

• Customising Thinstall Applications
Edit every aspect of Thinstall virtual packages quickly and easily.
AdminStudio gives you complete control over every aspect of Thinstall virtual packages, from modifying registry settings to controlling isolation options at a granular level, quickly and easily.
AdminStudio's Thinstall Assistant walks you through the entire virtual package customization process, making it easy for those unfamiliar with Thinstall to edit packages.

With AdminStudio, you have the power to:

Specify the profile name, description, and version
Include diagnostic tools with a Thinstall package
Specify the OS and language requirements for client workstations
Add files and folders to a Thinstall package
Control the display of predefined folders
Specify hard coded destination directories
Set isolation options
Create, delete, include, exclude, or rename profile shortcuts

• Support for InstallShield Upgrades/Hotfixes
Apply InstallShield upgrades and hotfixes as soon as they are available, giving you faster access to new InstallShield features.

Application Catalog Merge Replication
Automatically synchronize every AdminStudio Application Catalog in your organization.

For large organizations with packaging teams in multiple locations, AdminStudio can automatically synchronize all your Application Catalogs, making the most recent packages and packaging data available in each location. (Applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases only.)

Overview

Deploying software is one of the most common and important functions of any IT department. But if you don't properly package software for deployment, you risk crashing critical applications, driving up support costs, slowing productivity, and angering end users.

AdminStudio provides IT departments with the most advanced solution for quickly preparing reliable software packages for error-free deployment to any Windows OS, even Windows Vista.

AdminStudio combines powerful software packaging technology with Web-based process management tools to significantly reduce your organisation's desktop management costs and increase IT productivity.

Product Benefits

Migrating Applications to Windows Installer

Migrating software to the Windows Installer (MSI) format is the first step to ensuring its successful deployment, long-term reliability, and problem-free coexistence with the other applications installed in your environment.

Only AdminStudio has the ability to convert any setup into a 100% pure MSI package. The enhanced Repackager does all the work for you quickly and accurately. No more waiting for snapshots or scrolling through file exclusion lists— all the system changes made by a setup — and only those changes — are automatically captured. You get the most accurate MSI possible, and you get it in far less time.

Convert Software to Windows Vista-Ready MSIs
AdminStudio helps ensure software runs reliably on Windows Vista (or any Windows OS) by automatically repackaging any setup to a fully compliant MSI package. AdminStudio itself runs on Windows Vista, so you can follow best practices by performing MSI repackaging and testing on machines running the same Windows Vista OS as your target environment.

Only Solution for Packaging InstallShield Setups
AdminStudio is the only tool that can see inside native InstallShield setups, automatically capture their information, and accurately convert them into MSIs. No matter if the original installation is 100% InstallScript™ or an InstallScript MSI mix, only AdminStudio can repackage it into a pure, accurate MSI.

AdminStudio can also automatically convert SMS, Novell ZENworks®, WinINSTALL®, and Wise® WSE software packages directly into robust MSIs without repackaging.

Centrally Managing Resources and Packaging Projects

Besides powerful software packaging technology, enterprises looking to standardise packaging across their organisation need centralised management tools. AdminStudio has the enterprise-class functionality organisations need to effectively and securely manage all the people, projects, and data involved in the packaging process.

AdminStudio 8.6

The Way Enterprises Prepare Reliable Software Packages for Deployment

Overview

Product Benefits

Migrating Applications to Windows Installer

Centrally Managing Resources and Packaging Projects