Designing and Deploying MSI Updates and Patches

Organizer: InstallShield Software Ltd.

About this Seminar

This public training seminar is from 09.00-17.00 with refreshments provided. Seminars in France and Germany will be delivered in local language, all others in English language.

Learn the keys to efficiently designing and distributing software updates right at your desk

Designed for any software and setup developer, this seminar is taught by InstallShield experts and clears up any of your misconceptions about patching, provides a solid understanding of MSI patch behavior, and shows you best practices for designing, validating, and deploying your patches and updates.

Besides getting a thorough understanding of the issues and expert techniques involved in designing and deploying MSI updates and patches, you also take away the invaluable seminar manual filled with expert content that will make your job easier.

Who Should Attend?

This seminar is designed for anyone who develops software or creates software setups and needs to know how to efficiently create and distribute patches and updates.

Attendees should have a basic familiarity with Windows Installer, MSI database tables, how to run an installer, and InstallShield Developer.

What You Will Learn

General MSI Upgrading and Patching Overview

• Types of Windows Installer updates
• Packaging an update as a patch
• Contents of a patch file
• Run-time behavior of a patch
• About the REINSTALLMODE and REINSTALL properties

Designing an Update-Friendly Setup

• Goals of the patch-design process
• Feature-component design issues
• File-table and Media-table issues

Building Upgrades and Patches

• Background: about the Legacy Patch Wizard
• Using the Developer 8 Upgrades and Patch Design views
• Creating QuickPatch™ projects
• Patch-related conditions
• Authoring the update/patch user interface
• Creating a second (or subsequent) patch

Upgrade and Patch Validation

• About upgrade validation
• Built-in validation rules
• Addressing validation errors

Diagnosing and Solving Upgrading and Patching Problems

• Review of MSI file-versioning rules
• Viewing the contents of a patch
• Generating and interpreting a log file
• Types of patch errors
• Solutions to common patching problems

Defining the Problem of Delivering Software Updates

• Update publishing
• Internet connectivity
• List of available updates
• User interface
• File download and execution
• Reporting

Defining the Update Service Solution

• Feature overview
• Architecture overview

Defining Your User Experience

• Design considerations
• API review

Product Demonstration of 3 Sample Applications

Implementation Overview

• Implementation tasks
• Implementation costs
• ROI

What You Take Away

• A thorough understanding of designing and deploying MSI updates and patches

• A printed, invaluable seminar booklet filled with expert content

• Networking opportunity with your peers

• Answers to your questions from InstallShield experts

Booking

We'd be glad to help you to decide which course is right for you, provide details about prices, rebate oprions, available seats, and enroll you in the course. Please contact us:

InstallSite
Stefan Krueger
Estenfelder Str. 26
97228 Rottendorf
Germany

Phone: +49-9302-98 97 38
Fax: +49-9302-98 97 39
sales@installsite.org
http://www.installsite.biz

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