Desktop Authority MSI Studio Tech.-Features

Repackaging Features:

• Monitor changes from a legacy application installer and create well structured MSI.

• Repackage on any machine by designating one machine as your development machine (the machine MaSaI is installed on), from which you can monitor changes on another ‘foreign’ machine which can be completely clean (base build only) with no client software needed to be installed. This clean machine can be rebuilt between scans, or it can be a virtual machine. MaSaI Installer will connect to it and monitor changes.

• Create response transforms to configure existing MSI files. Easily step through the UI of the existing installation and configure for your environment.

• Create standalone transforms, merge transforms with MSI files, or create a transform from the difference of 2 MSI files.

• View and edit transforms with the color coded transform editor.

• View the difference between 2 MSI files by viewing the changes in the table view with colour coded rows, or export the differences to a text file.

• Access all these tools through the menu items or by stepping through the wizard.

• Intuitive Graphical Interface to add, edit and remove files, registry entries, shortcuts, merge modules, ini files entries, ODBC data sources, drivers and translators, environment variables, services and service controls, components, features, permissions on files, directories and registry keys, file extensions, class, typelib, proigid entries and custom actions.

• Components and Features are displayed in a tree view allowing easy drag-and-drop of resource items between them.

• Table Editor allows direct editing of MSI tables, contains drop down lists in child tables and allows navigation from parent rows to child rows (great for viewing files in a particular component for instance). Also contains a resizing tool.

• Allows multiple projects to be opened at any time, allowing easy cut and paste of rows between MSI's, and comparisons.

• Custom action editor, allows you to create any type of custom action through this interface and add them to your sequence. Easily set the processing type, execution and scheduling.

• Easy modification of the event sequencing by using arrows or adding and removing events.

• Dialog Editor - modify your dialogs and add your company branding to them. Alternatively start from scratch and create your own.

• Dialog Sequencing - change the sequencing of your dialogs or add/remove them using a simple tree view and drag and drop.

• Recycle bin - allows you to reintroduce any deleted rows.
  
   

• Convert registry table entries to COM table entries (AppId, Class, File Extension, ProgId, TypeLib).

• Convert COM table entries back to the registry table.

• Extract COM entries from the files in your project and add to the registry table.

• Convert paths in the registry table to component and file paths ([$compkey], [#filekey]).

• Search for merge modules to add to your project.

• Create merge modules from files in your project.

• Extract cab files from within MSI files.

• Save time validating and fixing MSI’s with MCE validation. MCE validation has been developed by MaSaI Solutions to emulate ICE validation with the benefits of being extremely fast and allowing click through to the table editor.

• Projects can be validated (ICE or MCE) and errors are displayed in the output window allowing click through to tables.

Build Options

• Compresses files either internally (inside the MSI file), externally in a cab file, or leaves them uncompressed.

• Create a bootstrapping executable for your MSI with the ability to make it self extracting.

• Check and install, if necessary, the windows installer runtimes from the bootstrapper.

• Create digital certificates for the MSI