RE: Newbie SMS Question

Hello brain,

If you have found a MSI packager you should be fine with that. To create msi
packages i use Wise installer but this isn't a cheap piece of software. i
have also used a app called Rapid Installer by Altiris. you might be able to
find a demo from http://www.altiris.com

the way a package is created is to take a before and after shot of your
system settings. so you use your chosen application to take a base image
(snap shot) of you pc and then you Install your appliaction. Then take the
second snap shot and the two are then compared and the MSI package is created
from this.

I'm new to SMS myself so if anyone reads this and can ad additional
information to it, i'm always glad to learn something new.

If you get really stuck and you have time you can send me a copy of the app
and i'll package it for you.. Based in manchester in the uk.

"Brian Leach" wrote:

> I know very little about MSI and even less about SMS, but we develop a
> software application and some of our customers are requesting that we
> provide an SMS installer for it.
>
> Our application is written in Java, and I found a product called Advanced
> Installer that will create an .MSI package from Java, which I think gets me
> halfway there.
>
> I really don't want to become an SMS expert; I just want to make the
> customers who ask for this happy. So, I have a few questions: first, is it
> enough to give the customers an .MSI file, are we falling short of what they
> are asking for? Second, are there SMS consultants out there who could take
> our MSI and make an SMS package out of it? Third, would this be a major
> effort? Would it be easy to just download an SMS trial and do it ourselves?
> Will it require much change between releases of our product?
>
> Thanks, and I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum to ask about this . . .
>
> ---
> Brian Leach
>
>
>
.

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