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InstallShield 2013

InstallShield 2013 makes creating reliable MSI installations, InstallScript installations and App-V virtual packages easy. It has comprehensive support for the latest technologies, including Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012, plus comes with powerful customisation capabilities to modify the functionality and look of your installer - all easily accessible from the powerful IDE. InstallShield 2013 introduces updated Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 validation testing, support for App-V 5.0, automated installation of required Windows roles and features, plus much more.

With 3 separate editions - InstallShield Express, InstallShield Professional and InstallShield Premier, InstallShield 2013 has the flexibility and feature set to fit your budget and requirements.

Flexera software have announced that InstallShield 2011 will now go End of Life on 31 July 2013. From 1 August 2013 users wishing to upgrade from InstallShield 2011 to Installshield 2013 will have to buy a new licence, so there has never been a better time to upgrade to the latest version.

Developer teams within large and small organisations using Visual Studio are dependant on being able to deploy applications onto desktops, servers and mobile environments.  InstallShield has been the industry leading tool for over 20 years and InstallShield 2013 provides the latest technology innovations in one effective deployment solution.

What's new in InstallShield 2013

Improved Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support

• Updated validation testing tools ensure applications follow Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 best practices (Professional/Premier only).
• Designate application shortcuts that should be 'pinned' to the start screen and which applications should remain on the 'all apps' screen, ensuring a seamless customised installation for end-users.
• The updated Advanced UI Designer helps to create contemporary install experiences using new Wizard design capabilities (Professional/Premier only).

Enhanced support for complex web/server applications

• Automate installing Windows Roles and Features - automatically install required Windows Roles and Features with your application (Premier only).
• Run PowerShell scripts during Suite/Advanced UI setups - helps to streamline installation scripting requirements by running PowerShell scripts with your installation (Premier only).
• Multi-tiered installation templates - deliver complex multi-tier (web/server) applications as a single cloud-ready package (Premier only).

Enhanced virtualisation support

• Create Microsoft App-V installations - build physical and virtual application packages from the same build process, now updated to include support for App-V 5.0 (now included in Premier - the Virtualisation Pack is no longer required).
• Virtualisation suitability testing - ensure applications produced are compatible with application virtualisation technologies including Microsoft App-V, VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp (Premier only).

Pure 64-bit applications

• Create pure 64-bit applications - deploy 64-bit applications using 64-bit installers on Windows Server configurations where WoW64 has been disabled (Professional/Premier only).

Complete Windows Support

The InstallShield name has been well known in installers for Windows desktops for over 20 years but InstallShield also works with servers, web applications and mobile devices:

• Easily create Windows 8 and Windows 7 setups
• Get support for Microsoft’s latest products, including Visual Studio 2012, .NET Framework 4 and MSBuild
• Expand installations to servers and Web services, including IIS, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and Windows Server
• Target mobile devices with support for Windows Embedded CE 6.x.

Easy to learn

Easily create professional installers for simple or complex products:

• Tailor the look and feel of installation dialogs with the Visual Dialog Editor
• Take advantage of InstallScript, an easy to use programming language that gives you maximum flexibility in your installations
• Maintain a clean build system with the Standalone Build licensing model
• Simple to use patch and upgrade creation, debugging, and build report tools to substantially increase installation quality
• Use the Suite installation development capabilities for bundling multiple products into one installer (Premier edition)
• Use Installation Streaming technology to quickly begin installations and download additional files as required (Premier edition).

Quick to use

InstallShield is a simple, easy-to-use solution to help ensure you meet your deadlines:

• Powerful IDE with dynamic searching, auto completion, wizards, templates and pre-built objects
• Project Assistant walks you through the installation creation process
• InstallShield Best Practices Validation Suite (Premier edition) helps to ensure you avoid potential installation issues
• Collaborate on installation projects across decentralised, distributed teams with InstallShield Collaboration (Premier edition).

App-V Support

InstallShield supports the creation of Microsoft App-V virtual packages for deployment of virtual applications:

• Create conflict-free product evaluations and adopt application virtualisation in your own environment
• InstallShield can simultaneously build an MSI file and an App-V virtual package
• Convert your legacy MSIs to App-V packages in minutes
• Supports 32-bit and 64-bit App-V packages.

And much more...

InstallShield 2013 Express

InstallShield Express is a low cost solution for easily creating Windows MSI installations. The Express edition features:

• Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
• Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and integration with Team Foundation Server
• Software Identification Tagging - create ISO 19770-2 software identification tags
• Comprehensive 64-bit application support - full support for creating installers for 64-bit applications
• Easy to learn and use - reduces the time required for setup authors to successfully complete installation projects.

InstallShield 2013 Professional

InstallShield Professional builds on the simplicity of InstallShield Express with greater support for the latest technologies and additional features:

• More options to customise your installations – including modifying of dialogs, support for managing multiple versions and customising feature sets
• Hybrid cloud deployments - Microsoft SQL Azure database scripting capabilities for hybrid-cloud SQL deployments
• InstallScript support - a simple, but powerful programming language designed purely for creating installations
• Advanced wizard page editor and redesigned wizard pages - updated end-user interface with redesigned built-in wizard pages and wizard page editor
• Microsoft PowerShell support - enables application producers to streamline installation scripting requirements
• Expiring setup launchers - help to prevent your end users from installing outdated versions of your applications
• A separate, standalone build engine means the build machine can be kept clean of the other InstallShield tools - includes 1 standalone build licence.

InstallShield 2013 Premier

InstallShield Premier is the most advanced edition of InstallShield. Along with all the capabilities of InstallShield Professional, it features:

• Sideload Windows Store apps - sideload Windows Store App packages (.appx) through Suite/Advanced UI projects
• Suite installation - Suite/Advanced UI project type provides more capabilities to bundle multiple products together
• InstallShield Best Practices Validation Suite – if the created installation does not follow best practices, this tool informs of all the errors
• Installation streaming - end users only need to download a small file to quickly start the installation
• Try + Die technology allows for creation of trial versions of your product
• MSI tools – MSI Diff, MSI Query, MSI Grep and MSI Sleuth allow to query, check and search the MSI database
• Multilingual support - includes support for 35 languages
• Includes 5 licences of InstallShield Collaboration Add-On - supports distributed, collaborative installation development.
• A separate, standalone build engine means the build machine can be kept clean of the other InstallShield tools - includes 5 standalone build licence.

Silver Maintenance

• Unlimited telephone support requests
• Unlimited Web-based requests using eService
• Automatic notification of and access to all product updates (free) and upgrades (chargeable for non-maintenance-plan-holders) for maintenance period
• 24x7 access to knowledge base
• 24x7 access to product web communities
• Sample code, sample projects and white papers
• Technical webinars/online product demonstrations.

Gold Maintenance (Not available for InstallShield Express)

In addition to the above, gold maintenance also includes:

• Access to priority support channels for quickest service
• Priority involvement in beta programmes.