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Chapter 5
Assembling an Installation
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Files or Web Files Page
on page 105
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Resolving File Conflicts Within Windows Installer Editor
on page 135
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Registry Page
on page 139
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INI Files Page
on page 148
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Shortcuts Page
on page 150
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Adding an Environment Variable
on page 153
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Adding File Associations
on page 154
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Services Page
on page 157
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Adding an ODBC Item
on page 160
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Adding to the Windows Firewall Exception List
on page 162
Files or Web Files Page
On the Files or Web Files page, you specify the directories and files to be installed on the
destination computer. You also can specify operations to remove, copy, or move files on
the destination computer during the installation.
On the Web Files page, you also can add Web sites, virtual directories, and Web folders,
and set their options. The Web Files page displays items to be installed to a Microsoft
Internet Information Services Web server, while the Files page displays all items to be
installed. For a summary of differences between the two pages, as well as links to Web-
related functionality, see
About Web Installations
on page 245.
See also:
When to Use the File-Related Installation Expert Pages
on page 107
You can detect and resolve conflicts between a package that is still in the authoring
phase and those that have already been deployed, without importing the package into
the Software Manager database. If you do this as you add files to an installation, you
can identify conflicts at an earlier stage in the repackaging process.
See
Resolving File Conflicts Within Windows Installer Editor
on page 135.
