“Your package is not digitally signed”.. “The certificate is not installed on your machine”.. “A new package is already installed..”

We all know that MSIX is an evolving technology - but it is not a fix-all for all the situations we encounter when running Windows applications.

On December 2nd of 2020, MSIX Packaging Fundamentals book authors Tim Mangan, Bogdan Mitrache, and Kevin Kaminski answered a series of questions within the MSIX Packaging Fundamentals Q&A live webinar.

In 2018, Microsoft delivered a breakthrough packaging technology to enable a flawless application packaging process, including enhanced features to help IT Pros and Developers carry out updates and customizations in a more reliable way.

Starting with version 17.3, Advanced Installer natively supports Device Guard Signing. This feature is of most use for the vendors to prepare their software product installers to be used in enterprise environments.

Every new MSIX package we build allows us to learn more and improve the tools we build. The whole Advanced Installer team got involved.

If you're a software vendor doing multiple releases a year, you're bound to hit (and hate) this problem - false-positive detection by antivirus solutions. It's just one of the neverending problems of ISVs that's eating a chunk of our time, without any ROI.

Come and talk to us in Paris on October 4-5, at Microsoft experiences'16. You can find us at the ExperTeam booth, our official partner in France.

Microsoft has announced starting this summer App-V will be a built-in Windows feature. This brings desktop virtualization to a new level. If you want to learn more on the topic from the industry experts join us in Boston at BriForum 2016, between July 26-28th.

Our team just came back from London. We were extremely happy to be one of the sponsors for what is probably the best conference on desktop virtualization from Europe, BriForum.

A vulnerability in all Windows OSes allows a malicious DLL to hijack your EXE installer upon launch. While the EXE shows your legitimate digital signature the attacker DLL will be able to run in the background.

A bug in Windows Installer expands environment variables present in a folder's name and stops the installation with an error, due to an invalid folder name.