Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual page 58

Chapter 1: AdminStudio 9.5 Help Library
What's New in AdminStudio 9.5
• Windows Installer 4.5 Prerequisites for Windows Vista Systems
• Dependency Scanning and COM Extraction Now Exclude Protected Windows 7 Files and Registry Entries
Ability to Target Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Systems
InstallShield now enables you to specify that your installation requires Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. It
also lets you build feature and component conditions for these operating systems.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1 Support
InstallShield now includes support for running SQL script on SQL Server 2008 SP1. In addition, InstallShield
includes SQL Server 2008 SP1 in the predefined list of database servers that you can select when you are
specifying in the SQL Scripts view the target database servers that your product supports.
Windows Installer 5 Support
Windows Installer 5 is available with the releases of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. With InstallShield
2010's own implementation of Windows Installer 5 features, you can take advantage of the new Windows Installer
5 functionality, including:
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Support for Per-User
setting. This setting lets you specify whether you want the ReadyToInstall dialog—in certain scenarios—to
include buttons that let end users indicate how they want to install the product: for the current user or for all
users. The per-user button sets the new Windows Installer property MSIINSTALLPERUSER equal to 1 to
indicate that the package should be installed for the current user.
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Support for Reducing the Time for Installing Large
General Information view to select one or more options that may help reduce the time that is required to install
a large Windows Installer package. For example, you can specify that you do not want a system restore point
to be saved for your installation. You can also specify that you want the installation to perform file costing, but
not any other costing. This setting configures the new Windows Installer property MSIFASTINSTALL, which
can be set at the command line.
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Support for Additional Windows Installer
for the new Windows Installer 5 tables (MsiLockPermissionEx, MsiServiceConfig,
MsiServiceConfigFailureActions, and MsiShortcutProperty).
Improved User Interface
InstallShield user interface enhancements include new toolbars and views, customizable grids, and dynamic
search tools. Highlights include:
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Direct Editor
that let you add, cut, copy, paste, find, and replace data in the table. This view also has support for dynamic
searches—as you are typing a string in the search box, InstallShield hides all of the table records that do not
contain it. When you are adding or editing a record, InstallShield displays help text for each field.
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Property Manager
adding and deleting properties. This view also has support for dynamic searches—as you are typing a string
in the search box, InstallShield hides all of the table records that do not contain it. The top of the view has a
new group box area; you can drag and drop column headings onto this area to organize the rows in the view
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Installations—The General Information view has a new Show Per-User Option
view—When you select a table in this view, a new toolbar is displayed. The toolbar has buttons
view—This view contains a new toolbar that has buttons for performing tasks such as
Packages—Use the new Fast Install setting in the
Features—The Director Editor in InstallShield includes support
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