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Premier
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Professional
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Support for
Azure Key Vault signing using Custom Signing
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✔
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✔
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Support for .NET Core in Custom Actions
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✔
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✔
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Ability to
create hourly scheduled tasks.
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✔
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✔
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Support for signing using a custom sign tool
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✔
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✔
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Support for
Custom Extensions in MSIX Projects
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✔
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✔
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Create MSIX Packages Checking for Updates Using
App-Installer
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✔
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✔
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Modern and
Simple Installers
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✔
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✔
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Support for Cloud Builds
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✔
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Enhanced
support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022
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✔
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✔
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Full ARM Support
|
✔
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✔
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Support for
fonts in MSIX
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✔
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✔
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Build InstallShield Projects in an Azure DevOps
Pipeline
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✔
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MSIX –
Modification Packages
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✔
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✔
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MSIX – Support for MSIX Core
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✔
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✔
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Pure 64
installers
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✔
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✔
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MSIX Bundles
|
✔
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✔
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MSIX –
Support for Services
|
✔
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✔
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AWS CloudHSM-based Digital Signing
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✔
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✔
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Simplified
Builds Within Docker
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✔
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✔
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Automated Patch Design
|
✔
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✔
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Create
Windows® Installer (MSI) Installations
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✔
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✔
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Create Windows Installer Patches (MSP)
|
✔
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✔
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Create MSIX
packages
|
✔
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✔
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Easily convert any MSI file into an MSIX package
|
✔
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✔
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Create
InstallScript (Setup.exe) Installations
|
✔
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✔
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Create Advanced Bootstrappers with Suite
Installations
|
✔
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Streaming
Installations that Download Installation Components as Needed
|
✔
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Install/Upgrade Multi-Instance Product
Installations
|
✔
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✔
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Check for
the Latest Version of a Setup Any Time an Installation is Run
|
✔
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✔
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Advanced UI Editor
|
✔
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✔
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Windows
Installer Dialog Editor
|
✔
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✔
|
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End-User Dialog Themes for Windows
Installer-Based Projects
|
✔
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LIMITED
|
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Billboard
Support for Custom Branding
|
✔
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✔
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One-Click Installations from the Web
|
✔
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✔
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DLL, EXE,
VBScript, and JScript Custom Actions
|
✔
|
✔
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Extend Suite/Advanced UI Projects with C# and
InstallScript Actions
|
✔
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|
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PowerShell
Custom Actions
|
✔
|
✔
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Managed-Code Custom Actions
|
✔
|
✔
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Easily View
MSI Table Relationships'
|
✔
|
✔
|
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Support for Microsoft® Certificate Requirements
including SHA 1 and SHA-256
|
✔
|
✔
|
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Design
DPI-Aware Installations
|
|
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DEVELOP AND DEPLOY GLOBALLY
|
|
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Multilingual
Support – 35 Languages
|
✔
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|
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Unicode Support in Most InstallShield Views
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Create Pure
64-Bit Installations (Windows Installer)
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Install 64-bit Applications
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Install
Windows Device Drivers Using DIFx 2.1.1
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Support for .NET Framework 4.5 (32-bit and
64-bit)
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Multi-Tier
Installation Template
|
✔
|
|
|
Install Web Applications to Microsoft® Azure™
and Microsoft® IIS using Microsoft Web Deploy
|
✔
|
|
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PowerShell
Suite Actions for Server Configuration
|
✔
|
|
|
Enable Windows Roles and Features During Your
Installation
|
✔
|
|
|
Deploy
Databases to Microsoft SQL Server/Oracle/MySQL/Azure SQL Databases
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Database Import Wizard
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Deploy
Websites to IIS 8 with SSL Certificates
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
IIS Web Services Support
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
IIS Tools
for Web Apps
|
✔
|
LIMITED
|
|
XML File Updating
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Configure
Windows Users and Groups
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
|
|
|
SAVE TIME AND DEVELOP EFFICIENTLY
|
|
|
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Ability to
create hourly scheduled tasks
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Integration with Visual Studio 2022
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Install
Packages from Windows Package Manager
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Identify what existing InstallShield projects
require change to meet Microsoft MSIX standards
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Provision
Virtual Machines from the InstallShield IDE for Testing Installations
|
✔
|
|
|
Monitor for COM Extraction (32-bit and 64-bit)
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Registry-Free
COM Registration (Application Manifests)
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
COM+ Support
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Library of
Redistributable Prerequisites for Windows Installer Installations
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Library of Redistributable Prerequisites for
InstallScript Installations
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Associate
Prerequisites with Features
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Prerequisite Editor
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Network
Repositories to Share Dialogs, Scripts and Templates with Team Members
|
✔
|
|
|
Local Repositories to Share Dialogs, Scripts and
Templates Across Multiple Projects
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Automate
Events at Build Time
|
✔
|
|
|
Reusable Project Templates
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
LZX
Compression Option (Windows Installer Projects)
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Display Installation Progress on the Taskbar
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Easily Edit
Runtime Installation Strings
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Specify Custom Icon and Version Resource
Properties
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Virtual
Machine Detection
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Easily Edit XML Files During Installation
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Easily Edit
Text Files on the Destination Machine During Installation
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Easily Create System Searches
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Mark Files
for Deletion as Part of an Installation Through Interaction with MSI
RemoveFiles Action
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Enforce End User License Agreement (EULA)
Reading Before Installing
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Call .NET
Assemblies from InstallScript
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Command-Line Builder
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Complete
Project Debugging
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Source Code Control Integration
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Microsoft
Team Foundation Server Integration
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) Support
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
Microsoft®
Visual Studio® 2019 Integration
|
✔
|
✔
|
|
InstallShield Command-Line Interface
|
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