- #MSI SMART TOOL CREATE FAILED INSTALL#
- #MSI SMART TOOL CREATE FAILED UPDATE#
- #MSI SMART TOOL CREATE FAILED REGISTRATION#
Test it before deploying it to your domain or organisation!
#MSI SMART TOOL CREATE FAILED UPDATE#
You should now tick the option to open the folder after creation and click Finish.ĭone! It is a good idea to check the results file and make sure no unrelated changes have been captured (ie, windows update made some changes that got included in the MSI etc.) Once the unrelated or incorrect keys have been removed click on Next. Other programs may require user specific keys.
#MSI SMART TOOL CREATE FAILED INSTALL#
For this install I want to highlight it and click the X to remove it. We can once again see that a User specific registry key has been captured, this isn’t required. We should now check the Modified registry keys. You can now see that the Owner section is missing. As we are deploying this application to the machine and I see that a mistaken user entry has been captured I will click on the Owner (my username) folder and click the X to remove this change from the MSI we are about to create. You will now be shown a list of captured changes. See my warning at the top of this article about mistaken unrelated changes that can be captured. Be sure to ONLY install this and not use the system for anything else while capturing.
Click Next.įind and run the installer that you want to capture as an MSI. Normally you want software to deployed per machine rather than per user, change this option from Automatic. It is advised to create the HTML results file, it will document all the captured changes that will be included in the MSI. MSI schema 3.0 will work on XP and newer. Select “Create a compressed MSI package”. Select the advanced options tick box and click Next. check the MSI content before compiling it and test the MSI before sending it out to your entire network.įill in the name of the package you are creating and select the folder you want the MSI and resulting files output to. the MSI was rolled out to the entire network breaking flash and preventing it from being installed again due to the permissions change! Moral is. In the past I’ve heard a story that someone in a large college built an MSI wrong, somehow it included an unrelated change to Flash player and the flash player folder permissions during the capture. Test the MSI that you create before deploying it to your organisation! Close every program that could possibly make unrelated changes during your capture. Make sure that Windows Updates are not running at the time. Use a freshly and cleanly deployed machine to build the MSI on. Here are some very important steps to take when building an MSI: See this post for the less powerful but simpler App Deploy Repackager instructions.
Scalable provide their own video showing this procedure too.
#MSI SMART TOOL CREATE FAILED REGISTRATION#
It requires registration via their website and to be e-mailed a free key and download link. Here I detail how you do this using Smart Packager CE (previously called WinINSTALL LE), a powerful and free (with paid upgrade) MSI builder. You can create your own MSI package using several free programs. Sometimes program developers do not provide an MSI or programs are too old to provide them.
If you run a network and want to deploy programs using group policy you normally need an MSI package.
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