Wise InstallTailor Reference
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About Wise InstallTailor
Wise InstallTailor is a tool in the Wise Toolkit that is available to users of Software
Management Solution.
Use InstallTailor™ to create a transform (.MST) that changes the way a Windows
Installer installation runs. A transform is a special kind of Windows Installer database
that can be applied at run time to a Windows Installer package to customize the
installation for a particular group of end users.
When you run InstallTailor, it simulates an installation, captures the options that you
select on the installation dialog boxes, and creates a transform file that incorporates
those selections. Because the installation is only simulated, no changes are actually
made on your computer.
Examples:
Set certain features to be installed for a group of end users.
Change the default target directory for all users that install an application within the
corporate environment.
When an installation cannot run silently, turn off some of the dialog boxes so that
end users do not provide inaccurate information during installation. The ability to
turn off dialog boxes is not supported in some installations.
Define information about the SQL Server that should be used by an application
without prompting the end user.
The transform that InstallTailor creates can set the values of certain properties even if
you do not explicitly define those values when you run InstallTailor. You can review the
changes that InstallTailor captures, you can edit them, and you can delete the ones that
should not appear in the transform.
See
About InstallTailor Changes
on page 11.
You can create a transform that customizes another transform. Example: Suppose you
are deploying a new office automation application to your organization’s office in
Germany. Everyone in that office needs the German-language version of the installation,
but only the Sales department needs the application’s contact management component.
First, you create a language transform to change the language of the installation dialog
boxes to German. Then you use InstallTailor to create a second transform, based on the
first transform, that installs the contact management component. When the second
transform is run, it applies the first transform to the base installation, then applies the
second transform.
See
Creating a Transform With Wise InstallTailor
on page 12.
