Redistributable Reloaded

Here we go again: Microsoft has release yet another version of the Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable. Is this another update? Note the date,...

The Hazards of Captured Installs

My boss occasionally tries to throw me a nice bone (as it were), in the form of a really easy-breezy package that shouldn’t take a couple hours to crank out. One of those recently was a little terminal emulator for the IBM iSeries boxes, which true to form was quite simple—until I remembered that...

Found it!

As I guessed in the other day’s post entitled “Undistributable”, Microsoft did end up quietly releasing a new version of the Windows Installer Redistributable, with the tag “(v2)”. <sarcasm>I’m sure that will ease the confusion!</sarcasm> Also, BTW, a minor...

Undistributable

What happened to the new Windows Installer 3.1 redistributable? It seems to have disappeared from Microsoft’s site! (Of course, the slightly older version 3.0 is still around.) Methinks Microsoft is up to their old tricks, and a “fixed” version 3.1a is coming, don’t...

S’mess

You think packaging is confusing? Try SMS. As you regular readers probably know, a good part of my job responsibilities now includes Microsoft SMS. So I’ve been collecting knowledge and links and tips & tricks, and someday it will all make it onto this website here for y’all. I...

Pretty Good Packaging… PGP [Part Two]

…the continuation of a discussion of what I learned in packaging PGP Corporate Desktop v8.0.3; please read Part One first if you’ve just arrived, or this won’t make much sense. But first: an aside. Y’know, I can be pretty dogmatic about packaging sometimes, but there are reasons...