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Advanced Repackaging with Wise Package Studio
Coursecode: WSCPSADV

Expand your Wise Package Studio knowledge in this 4-day Wise Solutions’ Advanced Repackaging with Wise Package Studio class. In this class, you focus on learning diagnostic and troubleshooting skills to adeptly solve your individual application issues. Additionally, receive answers to process and product questions encountered in your daily repackaging work using Wise Package Studio and learn additional aspects about the product to further simplify repackaging tasks

Our Advanced Repackaging class also offers these benefits:

  • Personal interaction Hands-on learning
  • Learn from Wise consultants, who are repackaging experts
  • Exercises that simulate issues you might experience in your organization
  • A training workbook that contains extensive information resources and ample space for documenting notes and procedures
  • A Wise Class CD that contains additional documentation, tips, and utilities
 

Learn How To
The Advanced Repackaging class assumes you have prior repackaging and Wise Package Studio or Wise for Windows Installer experience. (See the criteria below.) This class is fast-paced, deals with complex repackaging issues, and contains challenging repackaging scenarios. Following a brief review of Microsoft® Windows® Installer, Wise Package Studio, and exclusion lists, the class immediately delves into learning about and working with complex applications. Through intense hands-on work, you will learn how to do the following in the Advanced Repackaging class:

  • Apply the fundamentals of Microsoft Windows Installer technology to your installation 
  • Build an exclusion list and establish a repackaging environment that conforms to best practice guidelines
  • Repackage and troubleshoot complex applications
  • Apply options such as merge modules, macros, and custom actions to complex repackaged applications
  • Run validation checking on packages
  • Manage conflicts in packages
  • Add security to packages

Who Should Attend
System administrators looking for advanced techniques to expand their existing repackaging skills


Prerequisites
To maximize learning for each student, you must meet the following criteria to attend the Advanced Repackaging class:

  • Have taken Repackaging with Wise Package Studio or have experience using Wise Package Studio AND
  • Have repackaging experience using Microsoft Windows Installer (.MSI) technology
  • Have experience using the Microsoft RegEdit tool

Leave Class With:

  • Comprehensive knowledge about repackaging applications
  • In-depth knowledge to create, work with, and troubleshoot complex repackaged applications
  • Skills to use advanced Wise Package Studio tools for repackaging
  • Advanced Repackaging with Wise Package Studio course syllabus
  • Advanced Repackaging with Wise Package Studio Training Guide
Course description:

Total course fee:

Advanced Repackaging with Wise Package Studio € 2.695,00 (4 days)

 

About the trainer:
The instructor enjoys an extensive Wise Package Studio programming background and is an Symantec/ Altiris/ Wise Certified Trainer. He has in-depth-knowledge from Windows Installer and Wise Package Studio application.

 

View contents of this course in pdf format or read the content below:

Welcome and Introduction
  • Introduction to Wise Solutions 
  • Introduction to this course 

Windows Installer Overview 

  • About Windows Installer
  • Advantages of Windows Installer
  • About logo certification
  • Getting Windows Installer
  • About the Windows Installer service
  • About the Windows Installer relational database
  • About Windows Installer functionality

Wise Package Studio Overview

  • Introduction to Wise Package Studio
  • About Wise Package Studio concepts
  • Introduction to the Workbench
  • Setting up projects
  • Setting up processes
  • Setting up tools
  • Setting up security 

Creating a Complete Package with Installation Expert

  • Introduction to Windows Installer Editor
  • Create a new installation
  • Build your installation
  • Configure package options
  • Set system information on the destination machine
  •  Customize the installation for users
  • Define releases
  • Distribute your installation
  • Compile and test your installation

Capturing an Application Installation 

  • Capturing applications and operating systems
  • Introduction to SetupCapture 
  • Using SetupCapture 
  • Using SetupCapture with Virtual Capture 

Repackaging a Simple Application 

  • Repackaging overview 
  • Repackaging considerations 
  • Best practices 
  • Repackaging process phases 
  • Before you start repackaging 
  • Accessing Application Gateway 
  • Analyze the vendor package 
  • Create a new project 
  • Display the QuickFacts project and open the sample database 
  • Customize the repackaged installation 
  • Quality assurance for the installation 
  • Release management 

Patching and Upgrading 

  • About patches, upgrades, and reinstalls 
  • Introduction to UpgradeSync 
  • Introduction to Patch Creation Adding an upgrade 
Transforms 
  • Introduction to InstallTailor 
  • Creating a transform 
  • Applying a transform to an installation 

Advanced Windows Installer Editor Features 

  • Using Setup Editor
  • Using MSI Script
  • .NET overview

Building a Complete Project with Installation Expert

  • Before you start a project
  • Create a new installation
  • Build your installation
  • Options for advanced installations
  • Set system information on the destination machine
  • Customize the installation project for users
  • Define releases
  • Compile and test your installation project
  • Distribute your installation project

Quality Assurance Testing 

  • Introduction to Test Expert 
  • Testing an .MSI file Introduction to Package Validation 
  • Application Isolation 
  • Introduction to Application Isolation 

Software Manager 

  • Introduction to Software Manager 
  • Introduction to the Wise Software Repository
  •  Using the Wise Software Repository Share Point 
  • The Software Manager interface
  • Importing packages Grouping packages

ConflictManager 

  • Introduction to ConflictManager 
  • The ConflictManager process 
  • Types of conflicts Introduction to OS Snapshot
  • Release Management 
  • Introduction to Package Distribution

Wise Package Studio Tools 

  • Tool review 
  • Introduction to Application Gateway
  • Introduction to Application Watch 
  • Introduction to Legacy Setup Conversion
  •  Introduction to WiseScript Editor 
  • Introduction to Command Line Builder

MSI and Repackaging Resources 

  • Web-based resources 
  • Print resources 
  • Other Wise Solutions courses and services

 

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