INSTALLSHIELD EDITIONS
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TECHNICAL RESOURCES
InstallShield OverviewCREATE PROFESSIONAL INSTALLATIONS
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| Create Professional Installations |
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| Support for Custom Extensions in MSIX Projects | InstallShield Premier  |
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| Create MSIX Packages Checking for Updates Using App-Installer | InstallShield Premier |
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| Modern and Simple Installers | InstallShield Premier |
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| Support for Cloud Builds | InstallShield Premier |
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| Enhanced support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 | InstallShield Premier |
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| Full ARM Support | InstallShield Premier |
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| Support for fonts in MSIX
Ability to install fonts in an MSIX package so that the fonts are available for other apps in the machine. |
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| Build InstallShield Projects in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
InstallShield provides a native Azure DevOps Extension to build InstallShield projects in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can use in both a private agent or a Microsoft hosted agent. Note: Node Locked licensing only supports private agents. Use of hosted agents require a concurrent license. |
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| MSIX – Modification Packages | InstallShield Premier |
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| MSIX – Support for MSIX Core | InstallShield Premier |
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| Pure 64 installers
Build pure 64-bit installers for Basic MSI and Suite installers. |
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| MSIX Bundles | InstallShield Premier |
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| MSIX – Support for Services | InstallShield Premier |
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| AWS CloudHSM-based Digital Signing | InstallShield Premier |
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| Simplified Builds Within Docker | InstallShield Premier |
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| Automated Patch Design | InstallShield Premier |
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| Create Windows® Installer (MSI) Installations | InstallShield Premier |
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| Create Windows Installer Patches (MSP) | InstallShield Premier |
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| Create MSIX packages | InstallShield Premier |
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| Easily convert any MSI file into an MSIX package | InstallShield Premier |
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| Create InstallScript (Setup.exe) Installations
Use our proprietary scripting language - InstallScript to fully script each and every component of your installer. |
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| Create Advanced Bootstrappers with Suite Installations
Use the suite project to bundle multiple installers like .exe, .msi, .prq, .appv or .msix - all into a single package so that your users can have a single consistent experience. |
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| Streaming Installations that Download Installation Components as Needed
Create light weight installers by configuring the Suite project to download selected components on the fly from a web location rather than bundling everything with your installer. This keeps the installer very light. |
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| Install/Upgrade Multi-Instance Product Installations | InstallShield Premier |
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| Check for the Latest Version of a Setup Any Time an Installation is Run
Use our suite updates feature to alert your users for latest version of the installers before the deployment begins. |
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| Advanced UI Editor
Leverage our WYSIWYG editor to fully customize the installer experience and preview the experience during development. |
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| Windows Installer Dialog Editor | InstallShield Premier |
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| End-User Dialog Themes for Windows Installer-Based Projects | InstallShield Premier |
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| Billboard Support for Custom Branding | InstallShield Premier |
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| One-Click Installations from the Web | InstallShield Premier |
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| DLL, EXE, VBScript, and JScript Custom Actions | InstallShield Premier |
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| Extend Suite/Advanced UI Projects with C# and InstallScript Actions | InstallShield Premier |
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| PowerShell Custom Actions | InstallShield Premier |
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| Managed-Code Custom Actions | InstallShield Premier |
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| Easily View MSI Table Relationships' | InstallShield Premier |
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| Support for Microsoft® Certificate Requirements including SHA 1 and SHA-256 | InstallShield Premier |
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| Design DPI-Aware Installations | InstallShield Premier |
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DEVELOP AND DEPLOY GLOBALLY
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| Develop and Deploy Globally |
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| Multilingual Support – 35 Languages | InstallShield Premier |
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| Unicode Support in Most InstallShield Views | InstallShield Premier |
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| Create Pure 64-Bit Installations (Windows Installer) | InstallShield Premier |
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| Install 64-bit Applications | InstallShield Premier |
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| Install Windows Device Drivers Using DIFx 2.1.1 | InstallShield Premier |
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| Support for .NET Framework 4.5 (32-bit and 64-bit) | InstallShield Premier |
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| Multi-Tier Installation Template | InstallShield Premier |
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| Install Web Applications to Microsoft® Azure™ and Microsoft® IIS using Microsoft Web Deploy | InstallShield Premier |
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| PowerShell Suite Actions for Server Configuration | InstallShield Premier |
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| Enable Windows Roles and Features During Your Installation | InstallShield Premier |
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| Deploy Databases to Microsoft SQL Server/Oracle/MySQL/Azure SQL Databases | InstallShield Premier |
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| Database Import Wizard | InstallShield Premier |
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| Deploy Websites to IIS 8 with SSL Certificates | InstallShield Premier |
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| IIS Web Services Support | InstallShield Premier |
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| IIS Tools for Web Apps | InstallShield Premier |
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| XML File Updating | InstallShield Premier |
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| Configure Windows Users and Groups | InstallShield Premier |
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SAVE TIME AND DEVELOP EFFICIENTLY
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| Save Time and Develop Efficiently |
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| Integration with Visual Studio 2022 | InstallShield Premier |
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| Install Packages from Windows Package Manager | InstallShield Premier |
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| Identify what existing InstallShield projects require change to meet Microsoft MSIX standards | InstallShield Premier |
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| Provision Virtual Machines from the InstallShield IDE for Testing Installations | InstallShield Premier |
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| Monitor for COM Extraction (32-bit and 64-bit) | InstallShield Premier |
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| Registry-Free COM Registration (Application Manifests) | InstallShield Premier |
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| COM+ Support | InstallShield Premier |
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| Library of Redistributable Prerequisites for Windows Installer Installations | InstallShield Premier |
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| Library of Redistributable Prerequisites for InstallScript Installations | InstallShield Premier |
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| Associate Prerequisites with Features | InstallShield Premier |
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| Prerequisite Editor | InstallShield Premier |
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| Network Repositories to Share Dialogs, Scripts and Templates with Team Members | InstallShield Premier |
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| Local Repositories to Share Dialogs, Scripts and Templates Across Multiple Projects | InstallShield Premier |
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| Automate Events at Build Time | InstallShield Premier |
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| Reusable Project Templates | InstallShield Premier |
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| LZX Compression Option (Windows Installer Projects) | InstallShield Premier |
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| Display Installation Progress on the Taskbar | InstallShield Premier |
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| Easily Edit Runtime Installation Strings | InstallShield Premier |
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| Specify Custom Icon and Version Resource Properties | InstallShield Premier |
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| Virtual Machine Detection | InstallShield Premier |
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| Easily Edit XML Files During Installation | InstallShield Premier |
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| Easily Edit Text Files on the Destination Machine During Installation | InstallShield Premier |
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| Easily Create System Searches | InstallShield Premier |
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| Mark Files for Deletion as Part of an Installation Through Interaction with MSI RemoveFiles Action | InstallShield Premier |
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| Enforce End User License Agreement (EULA) Reading Before Installing | InstallShield Premier |
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| Call .NET Assemblies from InstallScript | InstallShield Premier |
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| Command-Line Builder | InstallShield Premier |
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| Complete Project Debugging | InstallShield Premier |
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| Source Code Control Integration | InstallShield Premier |
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| Microsoft Team Foundation Server Integration | InstallShield Premier |
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| Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) Support | InstallShield Premier |
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| Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2019 Integration | InstallShield Premier |
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| InstallShield Standalone Build | InstallShield Premier 5 Licenses | InstallShield 2 Licenses |
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