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I want to document the OSD file for Royalblue Fidessa Application here as other capture done alone does not make the virtualized package work. There were certain client customizations which were required and I had to do them in the OSD file. Here is the OSD file which I used: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <SOFTPKG GUID="XXXX-XXX-XXXX-XXXX" NAME="Fidessa" VERSION="6.3.9.61056"> <IMPLEMENTATION> <CODEBASE HREF="FILE://%SFT_SOFTGRIDSERVER%\SCCMData\Royalblue_Fidessa_6.7.0b_VFS_v1.0\Royalblue_Fidessa_6.7.0b_VFS_v1.0.sft" GUID="8XXX5-8XX0-4XX7-AXX1-5171XXXXXA0" PARAMETERS="" FILENAME="%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\royalblue\fidessa\FtwLaunch.exe" SYSGUARDFILE="Royalblue_Fidessa_6.7.0b_VFS_v1.0\osguard.cp" SIZE="15076089"/> <VIRTUALENV TERMINATECHILDREN="FALSE"> <POLICIES> <LOCAL_INTERACTION_ALLOWED>TRUE</LOCAL_INTERACTION_ALLOWE...

I have been often asked about the proper definition of Application Re-Packaging. This is the best I could find: Application Re-packaging solution offers customized application configuration and repackaging of third-party or internally-developed applications to standardize the installation routine, reduce deployment errors, and minimize support costs.

There are a lot of sites referring the installation of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 in silent mode, but if you have a closer look, no one gives the complete information on the installation and Un-installation of the package. Here are the steps which I followed to install Visual Studio on 32 bit as well as 64 bit machines. I assure you that you can save atleast 1 to 2 man days by taking information from here before proceeding with your packaging. Copy the compete source to a directory and name this directory as per your standard naming convention. Copy these files to this main directory (Explanation and details also provided later) VS2010_Uninstall-RTM.ENU.exe Dfusrprf.xml User.vbs Arpsuppress64.reg Arpsuppress32.reg Arpsuppresswow64.reg ConfigurationFile.ini Setup.vbs Uninstall.vbs Uninstall.bat These files are the complete list of files which will do the trick to install and un-install the MS Visual Studio 2010 package. You can use WISE Script Editor to create an exe for most of the p...

What does the common language runtime do? The common language runtime manages the execution of code and provides services such as cross-language integration, code access security, object lifetime management, and debugging and profiling support. Search for "Common Language Runtime" in the MSDN Library ( msdn.microsoft.com/library/ ). What's the difference between managed and unmanaged code? Code developed with a language compiler that targets the common language runtime is called managed code. All code based on Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) executes as managed code. Managed code is self-describing; it contains metadata that describes every element managed by the common language runtime. The runtime uses the metadata to provide services. Code that runs outside the runtime and does not contain metadata is called unmanaged code. Examples of unmanaged code are COM components, ActiveX interfaces, and Win32 API functions. Unmanaged code executes in the common language r...

For some time now I have been packaging for x64 and x86 machines, and have faced numerous issues while creating the MSI for x64 machines. Well MSI will mostly work in x86 because of less complexity of 32 bit machine. There always seems to be a problem when you try to install the application in 64 bit environment. Registry Structure: The Registries install differently in 32 and 64 bit machines. in 64 bit machines, there is a provision to install 32 bit applications registry and this goes in SysWOW64 folder. By default all 32 bit installers install the registry in SysWOW64 hive. If you need to install the registries in normal mode as in directly in the registry as it was in 32 bit machines, then you need to change the Component in your MSI to 64 bit component. This will ensure that your registries are to be installed as 64 bit and not 32 bit. You might face issue in compiling your 32 bit application with a 64 bit component. I would suggest you to compile your Application with 32 bit comp...

IIS Express 7.5 is a vendor MSI package and the MSI is created by WiX. Though there is no problem as such while customizing this application, but I found an issue while adding a shortcut to this application. While creating IIS Express 7.5 package recently, I faced an issue that I was not able to add shortcut in this application. This for the matter of fact I realized that the shortcut table did not exist in this application. The error which I was getting was "Field shortcut of table shortcut: Error retrieving shortcut of table" To get this error fixed, I added the shortcut table and following entries in _Validation table: After adding this I added CreateShortcuts Action in InstallExecuteSequence Table at Sequence 4500. This was because, since there was no shortcut table, the sequence too was missing from MSI. Due to this the shortcut was not getting created. Once I did both these things, the application is installed fine with the shorcut. This can be used with other missing t...

Many times while running a script/application exe from a network we get an error that the application is not from a trusted source and if we want to install the particular application or not. This error comes because the source is not digitally signed and the Operating System prompts to ask from user if it is a known source to user or if something malicious is being run from network. This is just to protect the end users from the malicious software or Virus attack. Technically, This behavior was introduced in Windows XP SP2 because of the addition of the Attachment Execution Services (AES). Every program that is run by using the ShellExecute() API passes through AES. AES considers the downloaded update file to be from the Internet Zone. Therefore, AESdisplays the Open File - Security Warning dialog box. AES examines the file to see whether the file has a file stream of the type Zone.Identifier. Then AES determines what zone the file is from and what level of protection to apply when th...