It’s been a while since I played with (or even used  ) Admin Studio SMS Edition. It seems that MS/Macrovision have updated it beyond the free SMS version 6 they were offering, to version 8. It can be downloaded from: http://www.macrovision.com/products/adminstudio/adminstudio/editions/smsdownload.shtml . I’ve got no ...

Well today I created, tested and swore at a package to uninstall the old M.I.S. software and fix Quick Address Pro. It turns out that the old M.I.S. software won’t uninstall cleanly when run under SMS, generating 1605 errors in the Event logs. That’s no great surprise considering the fudge we have to do to get it to work in the first ...

I write this with slight trepidation in my hands  . My current employer is changing their M.I.S. software and so to improve and increase my repackaging skills I offered to repackage the new software - which would ordinarily take over half an hour per PC to install and involved visiting multiple sites. Except that I’ve been hit by a ...

I’ve been working on packaging a few work related software packages recently (more on those trials later). But I’ve just had a thought that wouldn’t it be nice if one could create administrative installation points for MSI files at a click of a button, rather than resorting to the command line or Start —> Run. Well now you can. Announcing ...