Containing just the information needed by Server 2003, Server 2008 and R2 to deploy it successfully on the network. exe, puts the silent install switch on it and 'wraps' it up in a single, completely basic msi. This little tool literally just takes the. If there is a silent install switch you can use to run the application silently, such as /q, -s, /quiet etc etc. Is a free, tiny piece of software that is actually quite tricky to find now on the internet called Installer Wrapper Wizard.

I have used a hell of a lot of MSI creators/packaging tools and in my opinion the best one out of all these beasts. The manufacturers are not helpful either, aparently no-one else has ever needed an MSI of their program! when we run the validation tool it gives 53 a4 sheets of errors! We have opened the msi in orca, edited it and got error 2709. We have also tried using the appdeploy repackager which creates an MSI which quits with error 2707. Neither are reliable enough to be useful. one installs ocasionally but does not create shortcuts, the other quits with the same general error as before. We've tried converting the EXE to an MSI using a couple of tools but have not succeeded. The application comes with it's own unattended recorded installer but this creates an EXE not an MSI. We're running an RM CC3 network here and we have tried packaging it as usual with the RM app wizard, which takes an eternity (3 or 4 hours) and sometimes crashes the winINSTALL discover agent at the point of 'converting NAI to MSI', 'building advertising entries' The package it finally creates does not install on anything, build test or not, if you run the MSI manually it quits after about 3 seconds saying it cannot open the MSI there may be a problem, but does not give an error code. The installer is really odd, in as much as it fires off java to run the installer, unpacks a lot of install files to wherever on the hard drive you ask it to, then runs an installer that looks like a standard installshield one, asks you to enter serial and registration details, installs some stuff including a visual c++ distributable and a visual basic runtime, the deletes the install files. I've got a problem with an application that won't repackage.

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