InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition User Guide

Chapter 1: InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition
What Was New in Earlier Versions of InstallShield Express Edition
• Specifying the Required Execution Level for Your Setup Launcher on Windows Vista and Later
Platforms
Digital Signature Enhancements
If you specify digital signature information for your installation, InstallShield automatically adds the
necessary information to the MsiDigitalCertificate and MsiPatchCertificate tables. The
MsiPatchCertificate table contains the information that is needed to enable User Account Control
(UAC) patching. This enables you to create QuickPatch packages that can be applied by nonadministrators.
In addition, the Build Installation page in the Project Assistant now offers the ability to specify digital
signature information for your installation. Also, InstallShield now enables you to specify digital
signature information for all media types in the Build Your Release view. Previously, only the
WebDeployment media type could include digital signature information.
For more information, see:
• Preparing Installations for Non-Administrator Patches
• Digital Signing and Security
Support for Minimizing Reboots Through the Restart Manager Infrastructure
Restarting the system after an installation is inconvenient for end users. One of the Certified for
Windows Vista program requirements is that all installations must contain an option that enables end
users to automatically close applications and attempt to restart them after the installation is complete.
To support this quality guideline, an MsiRMFilesInUse dialog is available in all Express projects. The
installation displays this dialog if one or more files that needs to be updated are currently in use during
the installation. To learn more, see:
• Minimizing Reboots on Windows Vista and Later Systems
• MsiRMFilesInUse Dialog
Windows Installer 4.0 Log File Support on a Project-Wide Basis
InstallShield enables you to specify on a project-wide basis—without having to use the command line or
configure log parameters through the registry—whether Windows Installer 4.0 should log your
installation. You can also customize the types of messages that are logged.
To enable logging, use the new Create MSI Logs setting in the General Information view. You can click
the ellipsis button (...) in this setting to display the Logging Options for Windows Installer 4.0 and Later
dialog box, which is where you specify whether logging should occur. This is also where you override the
default logging parameters if you want to customize the types of messages that are logged.
If you do enable logging, Windows Installer 4.0 creates a log file during installation of your product and
populates the MsiLogFileLocation property with the log file’s path. In addition, a Show the
Windows Installer log check box is added to the Setup Complete Success, Setup Complete Error, and
Setup Interrupted dialogs. If the end user selects that check box and then clicks Finish, the log file is
opened in a text file viewer or editor.
For more information, see Specifying Whether Windows Installer Installations Should Be Logged.
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