The WinINSTALL Software Distribution Suite
includes a variety of features to make software distribution
extremely efficient. The Software Distribution Suite
contains all of the functionality of the MSI Packager Professional
and WinINSTALL's award winning software distribution and patch
management system.
The WinINSTALL Software Distribution Suite gives IT administrators
the tools to implement controlled automation for fast and
efficient application packaging and software installation,
security and virus updates and application patch management
across heterogeneous network environments.
Implements the most widely used MSI Packager in the World
WinINSTALL has provided one of the few point and click packaging
solutions for many years. Our development team developed the
very first MSI packager which has been offered since the inception
of MSI and Windows 2000.
Features of WinINSTALL Software Distribution Suite's MSI Packager
- Conflict
Assessment – allows package contents to be compared providing
results that show where conflicts exist between packages.
Where OnDemand goes beyond any competitor is the relationship
of package contents, conflict assessment results and real
fine inventory in our database. What does this mean? You
now have the ability to compare a machines file inventory
with MSI package contents and conflict assessment results
to truly understand where conflicts truly hide.
Every other packaging solution wants you to believe that
if you check for conflicts between packages, test those
MSI packages, and have a good process for MSI package creation
that your installations are guaranteed to run. This is impossible
without a comparison to the actual state of the machine.
How would you know that installation is guaranteed to work?
Packaging has always had an impact on the desktop even before
MSI. Now with OnDemand the integration is real and knowing
what changes to the environment your MSI packages are really
going make and create can only save useless calls to your
helpdesk after package installation. Throw away your packaging
only solution and upgrade to MSI packaging with knowledge.
- MSI
Validation and Automatic Correction – allows the validation
of MSI packages against standards such as the Microsoft
Logo Certification. Potentially dangerous ICE errors are
detected and can be automatically repaired.
- Baselining
– allows an archived baseline image to be used in the WinINSTALL
Discover before Snapshot to speed package creation dramatically.
- New
Patch Wizard – makes creating MSP or Patch files easier
than ever.
- Supports
point and click automatic creation of MST (transforms) and
MSM (merge modules).
- MSI
Package editing is logically laid out in the WinINSTALL
8.7 and Desktop Availability Suite console and doesn’t require
scripting or conversion which always presents the risk of
accuracy in MSI packaging.
- OnDemand
products support the use of VMWare for MSI package creation
to easily use virtual machines to build and test packages.
A true network directory integration
The ability to see all of the machines and or users that
you are working with software distribution becomes more easy
to use than ever before. Targeting machines for delivery can
take place directly from the WinINSTALL console in a variety
of methods.
Active Directory integration
WinINSTALL can automatically discover the Active Directory
properties of both users and systems, including organizational
unit container and group level membership. Software packages
can then be targeted based on these Active Directory attributes.
Software Distribution has never been this easy yet
flexible in function
WinINSTALL supports more distribution methods and flexibility
than any other product available today. WinINSTALL supports
the following distribution methods:
- Drag
and Drop – Now you can drag any package directly to a machine
or group of machines and have installation OnDemand
- Inventory
Based Distribution – allows you to run a query with any
condition, such as hardware configuration, to distribute
application packages to a subset of machines that need a
particular patch, application or change
- Scheduled
Distribution – allows any machine or group of machines to
have application packages installed at specific dates and
times such as non-peak hours for specific groups of users
- Interactive
Distribution – allows users to pick applications from a
menu of available packages to distribute when they need
them
- WinINSTALL
Program Launcher – otherwise known as WiPL allows packages
to be installed on first use
- Internet
Installer – allows distribution via the Internet
- Auto
Distribution – allows package distribution at user log on
- Email
Distribution – allows packages to be attached to email messages
for distribution
- CD
Creation Wizard – allows distribution from a CD for those
workstations that are remote and have larger builds that
need to be installed or have limited network connections
- Windows
Installer – Because WinINSTALL supports the Windows Installer
service (.msi), it is able to switch user account context
during a package installation allowing for self-healing
application installation on systems that have been secured
WinINSTALL continues to use a share based architecture enabling
simple integration of a stable, enterprise-wide software deployment
framework. WinINSTALL can support small organizations with
only a few machines up to the enterprise environment with
tens of thousands of machines. Scalability is present without
sacrificing ease of use. Enterprise functionality is available
to every size customer with implementation measured in days
and weeks rather than months and years.
Checkpoint/Restart
Upon reconnection, any partial downloads to clients will
continue where they left off; there is no need to restart
transmissions because of a disconnected session. Checkpoint/restart
works at the byte level, requiring only the download of those
bytes in a package that haven’t already been transferred.
Checkpoint restart optimizes internet distribution by intelligently
copying all necessary files to the local hard drive before
beginning installation.
Operating System and Service Pack Distribution and Installation
Most organizations have relied on managing third party imaging
products to install operating systems, service packs and standard
business operating environments on machines. While there are
advantages in using imaging products many administrators have
found the perils of managing these images over time. Many
are supporting several images to support the many different
hardware platforms that exist. Other problems that have added
headache to imaging is updating the image.
The WinINSTALL O/S Distribution solution automates many of
the manual, repetitive tasks associated with operating system
migrations including migration planning, settings migration,
application provisioning, ongoing deployment status checks
and continued lifecycle maintenance. This helps enterprises
move to a new operating system faster, with fewer IT resources
and less disruption to business.
WinINSTALL has the ability to build operating system templates
that include every feature of how you need to install an operating
system and service pack including the addition of multiple
drivers and other very flexible and easy to use settings in
the template. You can easily build a template that represents
your core operating environment in minutes rather than days
and weeks.
WinINSTALL has the ability to deliver a third party image
such as Ghost or PowerQuest or can invoke a Microsoft unattended
Install of the operating system doing away with the management
of images altogether. Building the O/S template is all done
with a very intuitive user interface. WinINSTALL also has
the ability to support as many different templates and manage
all from the WinINSTALL console.
Upgrade
to the WinINSTALL Desktop Management or Desktop Availability
Suite
WinINSTALL
Suites bring proactive management to your IT environment.
Before WinINSTALL the focus has been on the individual set
of mechanics not on solving the problem of keeping desktops
updated but also always available. The individual set of mechanics
would be packaging software applications and updates, distributing
those to the right machines, replicating software and repairing,
restoring, recovering. Other single mechanics are the requirements
of asset management and inventory management. This function
is a hugely outdated function of understanding what assets
you have, what is running on those assets and when do they
need to be updated or retired. While this is an important
single function it has little relation to the day to day management
of the asset.
You
see, mechanics are merely the means to an end. They are important
in their supporting roles. They should be tasks that can be
performed at any time – under the covers, in the background,
totally transparent to users. The end, the ultimate goal,
the engine that drives the mechanics is desktop availability
– uninterrupted, transparent and seamless.
Learn more about the new features and functionality available
in WinINSTALL Suite solutions.
What’s new
in WinINSTALL Desktop Management Suite
What’s
new in WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite
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