"7 Reasons Why your Installations May Fail on Windows Vista (And How You Can Fix Them)" is an article outlining the top reasons why the author sees failures of Windows Installer (MSI) packages on Vista

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/headsup/12511/why-your-installations-may-fail-windows-vista

Did it ever happen to you, that a request wasn't filled out correctly, or better "they" forgot to mention that certain options needed to be selected or unselected, like in my case for this Blackberry program.

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/article/12381/recording-changesmodificationsconfigurations-applicationwatch

Our client in Tempe, AZ is looking for an Altiris Expert.

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/jobposting/12121/altiris-contractor

Veredus Corporation provides contract and permanent opportunities for highly skilled Information Technology professionals.

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/jobposting/12841/altiris-administrator-tampa-fl

This article describes two ways of creating a Network Shortcut in Wise Package Studio.

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/article/11981/create-network-shortcut-using-lnk-file-or-creating-property

Runtime Error 339: Component or its dependencies not properly registered.

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/tip/11511/msi-error-339

STUB MSI can be used to uninstall the previous version and install the new version. This involves nested installation of package. A nested installation is a type of Custom Action that installs or removes another .msi package (sometimes called the child MSI) within a running installation (called the parent MSI).

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/article/11501/stub-msi

Want to learn more about Wise Package Studio 7?

Symantec is providing Web casts for those who wish to attend demonstration of the product from their product experts. Following is the page with recorded web casts. You can actually download these recorded web casts for your reference.

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/headsup/11371/packaging-and-virtualization-recorded-web-casts-download

I have a special discount scheme to benefit our networks towards Microsoft Certifications for exams taken in India.

Read more at: http://www.symantec.com/community/headsup/11121/special-discount-scheme-microsoft-certifications

When we launch advertised shortcut, it searches for all the key paths in the MSI to check if they all are properly installed on the machine. But have you ever wondered what is the difference between a normal and an advertised shortcut?

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/tip/4433/advertised-shortcut-info

Many of us have built an Office 2007 package that helps out greatly on SVS machines. Many of us, like myself, are building professional packages for customers and from every customer we get the question: "Can you build Office 2007 for us?"

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/article/4400/handling-office-2007-license-keys-with-svs

The DOS command PATHMAN.exe can make it easier to modify the system and user paths used by Windows XP.

You can modify the path environment variable directly from set path command in DOS. But if you do this you can remove the already existing paths instead of appending them.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/tip/4434/modify-system-and-user-path-variables-with-pathmanexe

There is this very useful link on Modify the System and User Paths at this web site: http://malektips.com/xp_dos_0017.html

In summary: The PATHMAN DOS command can make it easier to modify the system and user paths used by Windows XP.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/headsup/4452/modify-system-and-user-paths

I found this great site where there is a lot to learn for all, especially beginners.

http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/msi.en.htm...

Let me know if you learned something from it.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/headsup/4488/msi-tips-and-tricks

There is this very useful link on Modify the System and User Paths at this web site: http://malektips.com/xp_dos_0017.html

In summary: The PATHMAN DOS command can make it easier to modify the system and user paths used by Windows XP.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/headsup/4452/modify-system-and-user-paths

There are 3 types of properties in Windows Installer; namely: Public Property, Private Property and Restricted Public Property.

Here's what you need to include Public Properties in Restricted Public Properties.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/tip/4450/convert-public-property-restricted-public-property

The Binary table holds the binary data for items such as bitmaps, animations, and icons. The binary table is also used to store data for custom actions.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/tip/4252/cool-feature-wise-package-studio-extract-binary-binary-table

To Check the Windows OS version on target machine, look for the "VersionNT" MSI property. This property's values, for different OSs, are as follows:

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/tip/4239/conditions-check-when-creating-patches-using-wise-package-studio

Here's a beautiful link on "how to interpret Windows Installer logs". This is a very essential and a noteworthy bookmark for every packager and administrator.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/headsup/4289/interpreting-windows-installer-logs

This video walks you trough the creation of a package (WinZip v9) using Wise SetupCapture. It defines and describes the benefits of repackaging before going into a step-by-step video using SetupCapture to repackage WinZip. The demonstration uses the Snapshot and InstallMonitor methods to create a WSI project file for WinZip. Then it takes you to Wise Windows Installer Editor for final cleanup and compilation actions.

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Read more at: http://juice.altiris.com/headsup/4253/wise-repackaging-demonstration-video