EMCO MSI Package Builder is an installation authoring tool designed to help administrators to create, maintain and distribute Windows Installer packages. It can be used to create MSI packages easily, to modify existing installations and to repackage setups from the EXE to MSI format.
Starter Edition features an intuitive visual MSI editor that can be used to build MSI packages easily.
v4.4 [May 16, 2010]
MSI generation options were extended to allow you not only to specify an Upgrade GUID, but also to specify a Product GUID manually. Both GUIDs are preserved and associated with MSI projects, so every time you generate MSI for a particular project, Upgrade GUID and Product GUID are stay the same, but if you like, you can override them manually.
Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:
- Introduced features to restart a service during an MSI package installation and/or uninstallation.
- Introduced features that allow to delete default values of registry keys in scope of installation created manually or using the Live Monitoring technology.
This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:
- Invalid results of a live monitoring process when an installation creates or modifies string registry values
- The application allows to perform a copy and move operations for file system elements within an installation that is not prepared
- It is impossible to define a version that starts with zero for an MSI package
- Potential errors during the application startup
- The Restore Defaults button in the application preferences does not restore the Processes Monitoring Filters configuration
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