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AdminStudio 9.0
One Solution for Reliable MSI Packaging, Application Virtualisation,
and Windows Vista Migration
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• 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.
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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
- Reduce your organisation's desktop management costs
- Improve the reliability and availability of your applications
- Increase IT productivity and cut packaging time by 70%
- Eliminate expensive and embarrassing deployment disasters
- Take the complexity out of migrating to Windows XP and Windows Vista
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.
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Quick and Easy MSI Repackaging
Only AdminStudio can convert every setup, even InstallScript
MSIs, into 100% pure MSI packages. AdminStudio is the only
tool that can see inside native InstallShield setups, capture all
their information, and convert them into MSIs. The Repackager does
the work for you, saving you significant time without sacrificing
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MSI Customisation and Validation With AdminStudio, you can quickly customise any MSI package to meet the
needs of every user group in your enterprise. The Editor is now
powered by InstallShield® 12, the world’s standard in MSI authoring
and editing, making it even easier to directly customise MSIs and
author transforms. |
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Conflict Identification and Resolution Every
time you distribute applications and patches you risk creating
conflicts that crash other applications and disrupt systems. FLEXnet
AdminStudio automatically tests your applications and patches for
conflicts against the applications and operating systems in your
enterprise and helps you eliminate any problems before you deploy.
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Quality Assurance Testing AdminStudio
automatically tests your packages to guarantee they will work — and
continue to work — as expected once installed. It can also simulate
the deployment of an application or patch without physically
installing it on any machine. Deployment results are reported back
without risk to your environment, enabling you to make corrections
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Hand Off Packages to Any Deployment Solution
For organisation using software deployment solutions, AdminStudio not only prepares reliable packages for distribution, it
also automatically releases them to your system. AdminStudio
is fully integrated with every software deployment solution –
including SMS, ZENworks®, LANDesk®, Marimba®, Tivoli®, ManageSoft®,
and Active Directory® – saving you time while ensuring an error-free
package handoff. |
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Improve License Tracking and Management
Many software applications arrive from their vendor either
FLEX-enabled or LUM-enabled, which means they are ready to be
tracked and managed by Macrovision's FLEXnet Manager. But for those
programs that aren't FLEX-enabled or LUM-enabled, IT can use
AdminStudio to inject license tracking capabilities into them,
making them visible to FLEXnet Manager. |
Further information:
| For more information please contact the MicroWay sales
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Head Office
MicroWay Pty Ltd
PO Box 84,
Braeside, Victoria, 3195, Australia
Ph: 1300 553 313
Fax: 1300 132 709
email: sales@microway.com.au
ABN: 56 129 024 825 |
Sydney Sales Office
MicroWay Pty Ltd
PO Box 1733,
Crows Nest, NSW 1585, Australia
Tel: 1300 553 313
Fax: 1300 132 709
email: sales@microway.com.au
ABN: 56 129 024 825 |
New Zealand Sales Office
MicroWay Pty Ltd (NZ)
PO Box 912026
Victoria Street West Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Tel: 0800 450 168
email: sales@microway.co.nz |
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International: call +61 3 9580 1333, fax +61 3 9580 8995
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