InstallShield Editor 11 (AdminStudio Edition) is provided for the editing, or authoring, of Windows Installer files. With its own Project Assistant, you will find the editor very easy to work with- while still providing you the full granular editing capabilities you may need to customize more advanced packages.

In the screen shot above, you can see the Installation Designer view (as opposed to the Project Assistant view) where I have am viewing the properties of a file in the package, and have clicked on the “permissions” button to show its ability to modify permissions to files within your package. In many corporate environments, it is very common to find users locked away from performing operations that may be required by an application to operate properly. If you identify this to be the case, you may use this option to open security to necessary files right with your MSI setup. This is a native MSI capability, but it is seldom so well implemented. You may also note that key files (those that trigger self-healing operations if they are missing from an installed client) are clearly marked with a key icon. To set a file as a key file, you need only right click on the file and choose “set as key file”.

If you are evaluating an MSI editor, I highly recommend getting the trial and spending some time browsing the many options available in InstallShield 11 Professional- AdminStudio Edition. This is just another of several features offered by FLEXnet AdminStudio 7 that provide so many options, we just cannot do them justice here.
 

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