Windows XP Support End Looms – Automation Eases Windows 7 Migration

Posted in Application Compatibility, Application Readiness, Windows 7

By Randy Littleson Companies of all sizes have one eye on the clock ticking down to the end of Windows XP support. Numbers vary on the percentage of corporations and desktops that have been migrated to Windows 7 (we are not seeing many migrating to Windows 8), but all numbers point to a large number of companies that have yet to finish. It’s a pretty safe bet that the overwhelming majority of companies that are not finished are at some point in their project to get there. No matter where you’re at in the planning or execution stages of your…

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App Store Essentials: Using Your App Store to Help Optimize Software Spend

Posted in Application Readiness, Enterprise App Stores, Software License Optimization

By Laura Noonan In many companies, more than one third of total IT spend goes toward software licenses, so it’s no wonder that IT executives are looking for effective ways to optimize software license usage and minimize software spend. Consequently, an important goal within IT is to establish a comprehensive Software License Optimization process that aggregates, normalizes and reconciles software inventory, purchase order, usage data, license entitlement, product use rights and other information from enterprise business systems and determines an accurate license position. Your enterprise app store can be an integral part of your overall Software License Optimization program by…

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Learn about Cloud SAM through these upcoming and replay webinars

Posted in Events

If you attended MMS 2013, you couldn’t help but notice the ATEA booth.  ATEA was on-hand this year to promote the Software Asset Management in the Cloud solution.  Many of you are either facing or have faced software audits, so the solution ATEA is key to understanding how technology can solve your problems. ATEA has an ongoing webinar series so...

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Installer Cheat Sheet Series – Part 3

Posted in Packaging, Scripting, Software Management

By Cary Roys Continuing on in our Installer Cheat Sheet Series, this week’s Cheat Sheet is the Installer Folders Cheat Sheet. Most packagers and setup developers have had that moment when they knew where a file needed to go, but weren’t quite sure how to get it there. This is a Cheat Sheet for the translation between how the common folder paths resolve, and the variables you’re most likely to need to map those values to in the installation. Note that the behavior of InstallScript variables is somewhat more complex than this chart suggests, changing based on project type and…

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Application Deployment: Using AdminStudio Repackager

Posted in Packaging, Scripting, Software Management

AdminStudio is a product from Flexera Software that can be a complete, end-to-end application management system. It includes products for application modification and deployment. It comes with Repackager, Tuner, and InstallShield, as well as a host of other products. This article will focus exclusively on Repackager. I will start with all of the information you need to know about Repackager,...

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