Legacy Application Support
Monitor changes from a legacy application installer and create a well structured MSI
Repackage on any machine  Monitor changes from your development machine (where Desktop Authority MSI Studio is installed) or another 'foreign' machine which can be completely clean (base build only) with no client software needed to be installed. This clean machine can be rebuilt between scans, or it can be a virtual machine. Desktop Authority MSI Studio will connect to it and monitor changes.

 

Configure existing MSI files by creating transform files (MSTs) by stepping through the UI of the existing installation and configure for your environment. Create standalone transforms, merge transforms with MSI files, or create a transform from the difference of 2 MSI files. View and edit transforms with the color coded transform editor.

 

Compare MSI packages
View the difference between 2 MSI files by viewing the changes in the table view with color coded rows, or export the differences to a text file.

 

Comprehensive MSI Editor
Intuitive Graphical Interface to add, edit and remove files, registry entries, shortcuts, merge modules, ini files entries, ODBC data sources, drivers and translators, environment variables, services and service controls, components, features, permissions on files, directories and registry keys, file extensions, class, typelib, progid entries and custom actions.
Components and Features are displayed in a tree view allowing easy drag-and-drop of resource items between them.

 

Included MSI Table Editor
Table Editor allows direct editing of MSI tables, contains drop down lists in child tables and allows navigation from parent rows to child rows (great for viewing files in a particular component for instance). Also contains a resizing tool.

 

Completely Customizable Projects
The custom Action Editor allows you to create any type of custom action and add them to your sequence. Easily set the processing type, execution and scheduling.
Easy modification of the event sequencing can be achieved by using arrows or adding and removing events.

 

Access to Deleted Project Components
A recycle bin allows you to reintroduce any deleted rows

Complete COM entry management
Convert registry table entries to COM table entries (AppId, Class, File Extension, ProgId, TypeLib).
Convert COM table entries back to the registry table.
Extract COM entries from the files in your project and add to the registry table.
Convert paths in the registry table to component and file paths ([$compkey], [#filekey]). 

Modular design architecture
Create merge modules from files in your project. Once stored as modules, you can search for merge modules to add to new projects

Access to CAB contents
Easily extract cab files and their contents from within MSI files
Multiple Validation Options  Projects can be validated (ICE or MCE) and errors are displayed in the output window.

Save time validating and fixing MSI's with MCE validation. MCE validation has been developed by ScriptLogic to emulate ICE validation with the benefits of being extremely fast and allowing direct access to problem components via the table editor

 

File Storage Options
Compress files either internally (inside the MSI file), externally in a cab file, or leave them uncompressed.

 

Self-Extracting Options
Create a bootstrapping executable for your MSI with the ability to make it self extracting. Check and install, if necessary, the windows installer runtimes from the bootstrapper.

Zero-Touch Testing
MSI Studio Pro lets you easily create a special MSI package which simulates the effect of the application installer on the target computer, but without actually making any changes. Now the administrator can identify which files and registry keys which will be over-written and changed without doing any damage!

 

Conflict Resolution
MSI Studio Pro adds a repository for storing MSI packages, which allows for easy reporting on where each package might conflict with others. With MSI Studio Pro the administrator can find and resolve problems with conflicting application installers before they occur!