MAKEMSI quickly and reliably creates MSI files in a non-programmatic way\Tips and Tricks

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Tips and Tricks

These demonstate some useful fragments which might hopefully save you hours trying to recreate.

The available tips or samples are:

• Yours! If you send it to me!
• MSI Related Links
• Some very useful tools
• Batch Files
• Best Practices
• Magic Tweeks
• Create Macro For Adding Files
• Device Driver Installation
• Debug Macro - Cause Rollback (or just failure)
• Debug Macro - Wait While Displaying Message
• Domain Specific Installation or Configuration
• File and Directory
• Hiding Sensitive Information
• Automatically Uninstall Other Versions
• IIS Configuration
• Launch Conditions
• Overriding & Remembering the Installation Directory
• Patch Creation
• Printer
• Repackaging
• Service Tips
• _Storages
• Search MSIs
• Testing Your MSI
• User Creation
• Query MSI Table Data
• Testing Under the Local System Account
• Resource Life Cycle
• No Installation Registration
• URL Shortcuts
• Uninstall Fails (Don't Panic)
• Using ORCA and MSIDIFF to Automate MSI Updates
• User Interface Tips
• Windows Compatibility Mode
• Performance
• Size

Group policy can be dumped with the free MS "GPRESULT.EXE" tool.

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