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AdminStudio 9.0

One Solution for Reliable MSI Packaging, Application Virtualisation, and Windows Vista Migration

Top New Features in AdminStudio 9.0

• Pre-Virtualisation Scanning
Use the new automated scanning capabilities to quickly determine which MSIs in your environment are good candidates for virtualization.

• Virtual Application Management
AdminStudio now provides unprecedented support for managing virtual applications, making it as easy as managing MSIs.

• Virtual Application Suiting
Suite several applications together in a single virtual container, enabling them to work together properly.

• VMware ThinApp Support
For VMware® ThinApp™ customers, AdminStudio now supports the latest version of the VMware application virtualisation product, as well as the previous Thinstall® Virtualization Suite 3.2.

• Citrix XenApp 4.5.1 Support
For Citrix® XenApp™ customers, AdminStudio now supports this version of the Citrix application delivery system as well as the product formerly called Citrix Presentation Server 4.5.

• Patch File Import Wizard
Easily import new patches from Microsoft (including Windows Vista patches) into the AdminStudio catalog for conflict testing.

• InstallShield® 2009
AdminStudio is now powered by the latest version of the world’s leading MSI authoring and editing tool, InstallShield® 2009.

• Capture Context Data during Repackaging
AdminStudio’s Repackager now captures context data during the MSI repackaging process.

• Double-Byte Character Support
AdminStudio’s Repackager now properly captures double-byte character sets (such as Japanese, Korean, or Arabic), so you can accurately verify data.

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.