Installshield, Basic MSI or installshieldscript

Question

Hello,
I'm normally use Wise package studio to create normal windows msi packages.
Now we have to pay for upgrade to support windows 2008 operating system.
I trying to get some feeling with installshield because that's free for us (in combination with zcm).
But how can i see that i'm creating a normal basic msi instead of a installshieldscript msi.
Is it true that i need to deploy extra things (installshield engines) before i can deploy installshieldscript msi's?, and why shall i choose for that one.
I try to get my way into the lot of windows inside installshield / adminstudio.
(WPS was much easier, but there is less development on it)
I hope someone can explain me a bit.

Answer 1

If the result is an MSI it's an MSI.
If the result is an EXE, it may be dependent on some of the
InstallShield Script stuff. (At least that is my understanding.)
If you find yourself having issues, you could just make a habit of
forcing out the latest InstallShieldScript.msi to devices so its there
if needed.
There is nothing really unique about the version of AdminStudio that
ships with ZCM. You may find more detailed answers about using the
product on their support forums, but they honestly seem to be a bit
lacking. Appdepoy.com is another good site that covers some of this stuff.
You may find ppl in this forum that can answer some of those detailed
questions, but generally the questions tend to be more ZEN specific.
On 9/24/2010 6:06 PM, floort wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm normally use Wise package studio to create normal windows msi
> packages.
> Now we have to pay for upgrade to support windows 2008 operating
> system.
>
> I trying to get some feeling with installshield because that's free for
> us (in combination with zcm).
> But how can i see that i'm creating a normal basic msi instead of a
> installshieldscript msi.
> Is it true that i need to deploy extra things (installshield engines)
> before i can deploy installshieldscript msi's?, and why shall i choose
> for that one.
>
> I try to get my way into the lot of windows inside installshield /
> adminstudio.
> (WPS was much easier, but there is less development on it)
>
> I hope someone can explain me a bit.
>
>
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