I am using Limited Edition of InstallShield 2015 with Visual Studio 2015. I have configured Internet information Services settings as shown below, but website is not getting created in IIS. My...

I have built an Installshield installer successfully..and it is up and running..But I am a few customization away from perfection .While asking for administrative privilages in the course of instal...

I have seen many solutions for automating my InstallShield build, but I am having issues with each one. I am using InstallShield Professional 2013. Sorry for the lengthy question, but I am clueless...

I've been shoved into a DevOps position at work with very little knowledge about InstallShield or what I'm doing. Everything I've learned I've learned by doing and reading Flexera's documentation. ...

We have an application that was built using Visual Studio 2010 targeting the .NET Framework 4.0. We are upgrading the application to use .NET Framework 4.5 and is being written with Visual Studio 2...

After I built an installer by Installshield. When I double click to install that software, its publisher shown "Unknown". Does anyone know how to make this field to a signed certs? I do have a sign...

I'm having troubles with some could I would like to execute when the service will be uninstalled. I've added the code to both the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceProcessInstaller BeforeUninstall event...

My requirements are as follows: If an application with version e.g. 12.0 is installed at C:\Folder1 and a setup with version 13.0 is to be installed in the folder C:\Folder1 then the setup of ver...

My installshield project build gave such error: "ISDEV : fatal error -1014: Cannot rename directory *\Release to *\Release.Bak. Windows Explorer or a DOS prompt may be pointing to a subfolder o...

I have an InstallShield 2016 InstallScript MSI project. I used the Major Upgrade option but with that approach what I see is that files of previous version gets removed, registry entries get delet...

On the Wix's document How To: Run the Installed Application After Setup, the condition for the Publish element contains and NOT Installed aside from the property that contains whether the applicati...

I'm trying to get a log from my install that uses a setup.exe. I can get a log with just setup.exe /V"/l\*v c:\temp\installlog.txt", but I want to pass the x parameter as well to get &quo...

Good morning, I am looking to achieve an external handler for msiexec, but not stopping msiexec from acting any different. I would like to be able to intercept all messages utilising the MsiSetExt...

Have requirement to detect windows 10 or greater version on install time. for that I have create following function. It gives me 603 (AS VersionNT value) in windows 10 and windows 8.1. That is wr...

I created the MSI build package for our application. After this installation, we triggered another dependent driver software in the separate process in a committed event of Installer class like bel...

I have a setup.exe file generated using installshield suite project (.issuite) file. For an admin or a general user with sufficient privileges, one of our IT admin is able to do a silent installati...

How do I avoid distributing sensitive information in my WiX / MSI by accident? I distributed a password, machine name or login credentials by accident with my MSI file. How do I best deal with th...

I need to run a custom action only during Repair. But I didn't find a valid condition to do so. If I specify a custom action with below condition, it runs in Modify mode as well as in Repair mode....

I have created bat file for automatic build. It's create installer of my product. But problem is that before run automatic build script I have to change product code manually from install shield. S...

I'm building an InstallShield project, which does a [Major Upgrade][1] to an existing install (i.e. I changed the Product Code while retaining the Upgrade Code). The uninstaller of the previous ve...

How do I avoid common design flaws in my WiX / MSI deployment solution? Deployment is a crucial part of most development - failed deployment means your end user will never get to evaluate your p...

How do I avoid triggering self-repair from my WiX generated MSI package? This is a Q/A-style question with an answer that just list a few things not to do in your MSI file to avoid the most comm...

I have recently installed Installshield LE on my local PC for vs2010, built a package and now wanting it to be built on our build server. I have also installed it on our build server. I am getting...

I wrote a windows service that runs on Framework 4.0 and running in VS 2015. I also created a setup project (free Installshield version). My service did not show under services.msc after I install...

I'm finding that when I update the manifest for my bootstrapper to support Windows 10 compatability, the InstallUISequence of the MSI will correctly set VersionNT=1000, but the InstallExecuteSequen...