Chapter 10: Preflight Deployment; About Preflight Deployment - Symantec WISE PACKAGE STUDIO 8.0 - REFERENCE V1.0 Reference

Chapter 10
Preflight Deployment

About Preflight Deployment

Wise Package Studio Reference
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Preflight Deployment
The Preflight Deployment Process
Connection to Preflight Deployment Tools
Creating a Preflight Package
Viewing Results from Preflight Deployment
Preflight Diagnostic Tests
Quality Assurance module only.
Preflight Deployment™ helps you determine if an installation or patch will succeed or fail
by testing it in your production environment before deployment. Preflight Deployment
lets you discover why installations or patches fail on specific computers without
disrupting end users or endangering your production environment.
With Preflight Deployment, you generate a preflight package based on a package that
you plan to deploy. Deploy the preflight package using your normal deployment method.
When the preflight package runs, it performs tests based on the package contents
without actually making any changes on the target computers, then sends the results to
a Web server. Use the Preflight Analysis tool to view results.
Parts of Preflight Deployment
Preflight Instrumentation
The Preflight Instrumentation tool in Workbench reads and analyzes a package that
you plan to deploy. It then generates a preflight package based on that package.
The preflight package simulates the installation but does not make changes on the
target computer. The preflight package:
Disables all changes to the target computer, such as installation of files, registry
entries, and so on.
Is stripped of non-Wise custom actions, because they could make changes to
the target computer. Because of this, some tests might return results that
would differ from the results if the original package ran.
See Interpreting preflight results and troubleshooting
Contains added Wise custom actions that test certain conditions, such as disk
space, privileges, and launch conditions. Wise custom actions also gather the
results from these tests and send them to a Web application named Preflight
Data Collector.
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