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The Problem:
The importance of properly prepared applications and deployment
has a direct correlation to desktop and application availability.
Lack of quality control, standardization and self installed applications
all play havoc in this process with the result being a strain on
your helpdesk and IT resources not to mention a loss in end-user
productivity. The bottom line problem is the continued mounting
costs to manage PC desktops and applications on those desktops.
The Solution:
For the first time packaging is completely integrated with what
is really running on the desktop not just what exists in packages
that have been created. This integration can be found only in the
WinINSTALL MSI Packager Professional edition.
Conflict Assessment - package contents to be compared
providing results that show where conflicts exist between packages.
Where OnDemand 8.7 goes beyond any competitor is the relationship
of package contents, conflict assessment results and real fine inventory
in our database. What does this mean?
You now have the ability to compare a machines file
inventory with package contents and conflict assessment results
to truly understand where conflicts truly hide.
Other packager's check for conflicts between packages,
test those packages, and have a good process for package creation
that your installations are guaranteed to run. This is impossible
without a comparison to the actual state of the machine. How would
you know that installation is guaranteed to work?
Packaging has always had an impact on the desktop
even before MSI. Now with OnDemand the integration is real
and knowing what changes to the environment your packages are really
going to make and create can only save useless calls to your helpdesk
after package installation.
Enterprises with multiple, decentralized teams can
access packages maintained by other teams using a single or decentralized
databases, meaning packages can be accessed and checked for conflicts
across the enterprise.
- Most widely used MSI packager in the world
- MSI Validation and Automatic Correction - allows
the validation of MSI packages against standards such as the Microsoft
Logo Certification. Potentially dangerous ICE errors are detected
and can be automatically repaired.
- Baselining - allows an archived baseline image
to be used in the WinINSTALL Discover Before Snapshot to speed
package creation dramatically.
- Patch Wizard - makes MSP or Patch file creation
easier than ever.
- Point and click - automatic creation of MST (transforms)
and MSM (merge modules).
- Package editing - is logically laid out in the
MSI Packager Proffesional console and doesn't require scripting or conversion
which always presents the risk of accuracy in packaging.
- And yes, the WinINSTALL MSI Packager Proffesional supports the use of VMWare
for package creation to easily use virtual machines to build and
test packages.
- The WinINSTALL MSI Packager Professional Edition
is licensed per console. A console license is required for each
person involved with building and editing packages. Or have an
unlimited package creation capability with the full WinINSTALL
suites and reap the benefits of packaging integrated with
file inventory and start lowering the costs associated with resolving
software problems caused by package installation.
Managing Software Applications Is More Than
MSI Packaging…….
It’s Eliminating the Need to Visit Desktops
that Saves You Money
System Administrators have been fooled into thinking
that they just need to be able to build and create MSI packages
to solve their software distribution and desktop management problem.
Some MSI packaging products claim “guaranteed delivery”
but fall short of knowing what will happen after the package has
been installed. A packaging only solution has no visibility to what
is currently running on a machine. It leaves the problem solving
to others in the IT administration team which in the end costs more
money than ever before. IT still remains reactive to change.
Upgrade to the WinINSTALL Software
Distribution, Desktop Management
or Desktop Availability Suite
WinINSTALL Suites bring proactive management to your
IT environment. Before WinINSTALL the focus has been on the
individual set of mechanics not on solving the problem of keeping
desktops updated but also always available. The individual set of
mechanics would be packaging software applications and updates,
distributing those to the right machines, replicating software and
repairing, restoring, recovering. Other single mechanics are the
requirements of asset management and inventory management. This
function is a hugely outdated function of understanding what assets
you have, what is running on those assets and when do they need to
be updated or retired. While this is an important single function it
has little relation to the day to day management of the asset.
You see, mechanics are merely the means to an end.
They are important in their supporting roles. They should be tasks
that can be performed at any time – under the covers, in the
background, totally transparent to users. The end, the ultimate
goal, the engine that drives the mechanics is desktop availability
– uninterrupted, transparent and seamless.
Learn more about the new features and functionality available in
WinINSTALL Suite solutions.
What’s new in WinINSTALL Software Distribution Suite
What’s new
in WinINSTALL Desktop Management Suite
What’s new in
WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite
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