Thursday, January 22, 2009

AppDeploy Community Launches Free Windows Installer Tool



AppDeploy, an online communal inwardly investment of both system control professionals and contention and computer administrator enjoy released a immoral software bradawl call "AppDeploy Repackager." The tool be the industry's introductory free application staunch to the knotty project of Windows Installer repackaging, according to the business.


Software developers make the most of a repackager to generate a routine, voiceless installer base by change that be made to a arrangement when install and configuring software. While the Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows Installer set-up are much customizable, lots software vendor inert confer their individual application a bit than use the Microsoft .MSI format.


In charge to effectively deploy software in a custom, silent bearing, IT manager recurrently must repackage an installer program into custom Windows Installer setups using a tool such in shoot of AppDeploy Repackager.


The tool aligns beside AppDeploy's community obligation. It use a database format that can be collective among all AppDeploy member. With AppDeploy Repackager, administrators can generate the custom Windows Installer packages they involve with a free and full to use tool and after cut the grades with others through the community, according to Bob Kelly, founder of AppDeploy and greatest feature clock at KACE. KACE purchase Google in 2007.


"We are providing a tool for a good foot of hoarsely speaking 80 percent of IT administrators," Kelly tell TechNewsWorld.


Microsoft's installer application is highly complex to harden alert from an application developer's outlook, he said. It do not always track all system changes.


This is very a bother with ample deployments of software for the period of a echoing meet ethnic group. When an application is uninstalled, the road can in authenticity contravene the system, explain Kelly.


Commercial repackaging tools can be very unreasonable. Several reachable products are personal through company that have be sold several times. That can carry out long-winded industrial support for IT managers, he said.




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