I want to start these articles with a small disclaimer: This project is only meant for teaching purposes, this is not the most secure way to handle licenses in your installer. Ideally this must be handled from the application itself, not the MSI. Use at your own risk, I will […]
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I want to start these articles with a small disclaimer: This project is only meant for teaching purposes, this is not the most secure way to handle licenses in your installer. Ideally this must be handled from the application itself, not the MSI. Use at your own risk, I will […]
I want to start these articles with a small disclaimer: This project is only meant for teaching purposes, this is not the most secure way to handle licenses in your installer. Ideally this must be handled from the application itself, not the MSI. Use at your own risk, I will […]
In the last post, we had a look on how to create a C# (CSharp) DLL for MSI Custom Actions, but what if you want to create something more dynamic? What if we want to pass some MSI properties to our DLL, and in our DLL we use those arguments […]
Windows Installer technology offers the possibility to use Visual Basic Scripts, Javascript files or dynamic linked libraries (DLL) as custom actions to control the install/uninstall of a certain product. When discussing about dynamic linked libraries, many think that you can only use C/C++ to create suitable ones for the Windows […]
Intune (or as is newly called Microsoft Endpoint Manager) comes with many app types for deployments that you can do, such as Store Apps (Android, Ios, Microsoft, etc), Microsoft 365 Apps (Windows 10 and MacOS), Line of business apps, and also Windows Apps (Win32). Win32 apps deployments are designed for […]
In a previous article I’ve made a quick demo on how you can add an additional source location for your MSI by using VBScript. Recently I had an email from a user regarding this topic and asked me if there is an alternative way to add source locations without the […]
Before we dive into how to apply permissions with VBScript, we must first understand what secedit is. The secedit tool comes by default with Windows Os. Secedit configures and analyzes system security by comparing your current security configuration against specified security templates. To apply permissions with secedit, all that is […]
Tableau Reader is a free desktop application that you can use to open and interact with data visualizations built in Tableau Desktop. Filter, drill down and discover. It is a very popular application which can be found in many enterprises. However, I’ve seen many cases where IT Pros will struggle […]
Python is cool, easy to use, and one of the most popular programming languages out there. But python has a big downside when it comes to running scripts. First of all, a normal user doesn’t have python installed on his machine. Second of all, it’s tricky for a simple user […]
While Linux users are used to have a package manager, and quickly install packages from a terminal with a simple apt-get, Windows lacked this functionality for years. To get applications on a Windows operating system, you must search the web, go to the publisher website, download the specific application and […]
Microsoft released a windows installer for Teams that is placed in Program Files, but this is theoretically targeted only for VDI (Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure). The Teams MSI installer can be downloaded from these links: 32-bit 64-bit To install Teams for all users, the following command should be used: msiexec /i […]