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Scriptlogic MSI Studio - Quick Review

I've been meaning to install MSIStudio from Scriptlogic for a while to check it out, and I finally had time. I created (and edited, post-creation)...
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Security Certificates, Trusted Publishers, and ClickOnce Apps

The real author of this entry is Steve Grinker (he doesn't have a blog yet, I'm trying to convince him to get one here). By the way, Steve, yes...
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Adobe FlashPlayer 9.0.115 cab updated for ITCU

If you use the Custom Updates Publishing Wizard (ITCU) to deploy Adobe Flash Player, they've released the catalogue update. So if you haven't created...
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Adobe FlashPlayer 9.0.115 via ITCU

This is Part 3 of 3 A bit of background, see http://www.myitforum.com/articles/6/view.asp?id=11240 and http://www.myitforum.com/articles/6/view.asp?id...
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Adobe FlashPlayer 9.0.115 MSI Customize via Transform

This is Part 2 of 3 Part 1 of 3: see http://www.myitforum.com/articles/6/view.asp?id=11240 In production, we had deployed version 9.0.47 via ITCU. During...
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Adobe FlashPlayer 9.0.115 via MSI doesn't really uninstall

A bit of background: In production, whenever we deploy an application, we always have to know what the rollback plan will be, in case we need it. We've...
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Stamp your MSI/MST

In an email list, I mentioned that we 'stamp' our repackaged .MSI's or any .MST's (Transforms) we modify with some additional registry...
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Using SMS 2003 to run Sun Java's TZUpdate

I suspect my environment is like others... where although you are pushing out the latest Daylight Savings Time compliant version of Sun Java Runtime, you...

Book Reviews - Summary

I think my collection is nearly complete for available SMS 2003 books. I may be missing a couple, but so far I've got Pro SMS 2003 , Rod Kruetzfeld SMS...

WMIC and Windows Installer products

Windows Installer (.MSI) installs are great for remote administration. One of the under-utilized tools (IMHO) is WMIC, the WMI interface from a command...
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Flash 9.0.16, Windows Installer 1603 error and oleaut32.dll

This may be old news, but it was new knowledge for me. In troubleshooting why ~1% of the deployments of the latest Flash, 9.0.16.0, was erroring with 1603...
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Uninstall by Guid example - vbscript

usage: cscript/wscript NameOfScript.vbs {GUID} {GUID} etc.; again, just putting it here mostly for myself for reference. On error resume Next CountApps...
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