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Preflight Diagnostic Tests

Wise Package Studio Reference
Windows 2003 Server IIS Configuration
If you install Preflight Web applications on a Windows 2003 IIS server, make sure
IIS 6.0 is configured to allow ISAPI and ASP, which is prohibited by default.
See also:
Connecting to a Web Application
Connection to Preflight Deployment Tools
About Preflight Deployment
The Preflight Deployment Process
Preflight Diagnostic Tests
Quality Assurance module only.
When you use Preflight Instrumentation to prepare a package for preflight deployment,
a new preflight .MSI package is created based on the original package. The preflight
package contains custom actions that perform the following tests, which do not make
changes to the target computers. After you run the preflight package on target
computers, you can see results from these tests in the Preflight Analysis tool.
Begin Run
Check In-Use
Connectivity to URL
Disk Space Check
End Run
File Association Check
File Searching
File Security - Read
File Security - Write
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Indicates the beginning of the preflight tests.
Reports the files in the package that are in-use at on the
computer. These could fail to be installed properly
because in-use files cannot be replaced. This test is
informational only.
Extracts URLs from any Launch Web Page, Download File
From Internet, or Post Data to HTTP Server custom
actions that are found in the original package. It puts
them in a table, which is processed on the target
computer.
Evaluates the disk costing and identifies target
computers that don't meet the requirements.
Indicates the end of the preflight tests, which means the
preflight package was fully processed.
Checks that any extensions in the preflight package do
not overwrite or reassign those already on the target
computer.
Cycles through the AppSearch table and evaluates
conditions attached to each AppSearch action. This lets
you know if the items specified in AppSearch exist on the
target computer.
Cycles through the files that are installed and queries the
target computer for permissions to access the files.
Cycles through the files that are installed and queries the
target computer for permissions to create and update
files.
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