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Flexera AdminStudio

( Duration: 4 Days )

Flexera AdminStudio training course will teach you to use AdminStudio to repackage traditional setups into Windows Installer packages and customize those packages to meet specific needs. In this course, you will also gain experience in creating transforms for existing third-party MSI packages and identifying and resolving conflicts between packages before deploying in the applications.

By attending Flexera AdminStudio workshop, delegates will learn to:

  • Prepare your development systems, test systems and documentation for the application-migration process
  • Use AdminStudio's Repackager to convert traditional setups to Windows Installer setups
  • Enhance and customize repackaged setups and to correct validation errors
  • Use AdminStudio's ConflictSolver to identify and resolve potential conflicts between Windows Installer setups before deployment into your desktop environment
  • Use AdminStudio's Tuner to customize the installation of existing Windows Installer setups—such as third-party installations—to meet your company-specific requirements
  • Use AdminStudio's Process Template Editor to create Process Assistants - projects to track and manage pre-deployment processes
  • Virtualize Applications to Microsoft's App-V, VMWare ThinApp or Citrix XenApp.
  • Check your application for Windows-platform Compatibility

  • Using Windows Explorer and the command prompt to create and manage files and run executables
  • Basic Windows terminology (e.g. DLL, Control Panel, etc.)

COURSE AGENDA

1

Introduction and Overview

  • AdminStudio Tools
  • Overview of the Application Migration Process
  • Windows Installer Background
  • Features and Benefits of Windows Installer
  • Format of a Windows Installer Installation
  • Windows Installer Concepts and Terminology
  • Process Assistant
2

Preparing for Application Packaging

  • Creating the Storage Structure
  • Defining Standard Images
  • Project Documentation
  • Installing the Repackager on Your Repackaging Image
  • Global Exclusion Lists
3

Application Repackaging

  • Repackager Best Practices
  • Using the Repackager Interface
  • Repackager Interface-Tools Menu
  • The Repackaging Wizard
  • Using Installation Monitoring to Repackage an Application
  • Using Snapshot Mode to Repackage an Application
  • Repackager Output
  • Reviewing the Repackaged Data
  • Working with Repackaging Projects
4

Testing the Repackaged Installation

  • Running MSI Installations
  • Testing Guidelines
  • Commonly Performed Tests
5

InstallShield Editor

  • Overview
  • Setting Editor Options
  • General Information
  • Working with Application Data
  • Path Variables
  • Shortcuts
  • Registry DataCreating Custom Actions
  • INI Files
  • Environment Variables
  • Per-Application Paths
  • Conditions
  • Building Releases
  • Validating the MSI Package
  • Creating Templates
6

Advanced Editor Topics

  • Searching for Files
  • Direct Editor
  • Handling Locked-Down Environments
  • COM Registration
7

Custom Actions

  • Windows Installer Sequences
  • Custom Action Scheduling Options
  • The Custom Actions and Sequences View
  • Common Custom Action Types
  • Creating Custom Actions
8

Creating a Windows Installer Transform

  • Introduction to Tuner
  • Creating a Response Transform
  • Editing the Transform Using Tuner
  • Applying a Transform
  • Using the InstallShield Editor to Create a Customized Transform Template (Generic MST)
  • When to Use the Tuner versus the Editor to Create or Modify a Transform
9

Application Management

  • Application Catalog
  • Importing Merge Modules
  • Working with Groups to Organize the Application Catalog
  • Creating and Importing OS Snapshots
  • Importing Windows Installer and Virtual Packages
10

Test Center

  • Overview of Best Practice Rules
  • Overview of Using the Conflict Wizard
  • Testing for Application Compatibility Overview

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