AdminStudio

Deploying software is one of the most common and important functions of any IT department. But if you don't properly package software for deployment, you risk crashing critical applications, driving up support costs, slowing productivity, and angering end users.

AdminStudio provides IT departments with the most advanced solution for quickly preparing reliable software packages for error-free deployment to any Windows OS, even Windows Vista.

AdminStudio combines powerful software packaging technology with Web-based process management tools to significantly reduce your organization's desktop management costs and increase IT productivity.

Product Benefits

Reduce your organization's desktop management costs
Improve the reliability and availability of your applications
Increase IT productivity and cut packaging time by 70%
Eliminate expensive and embarrassing deployment disasters
Take the complexity out of migrating to Windows XP and Windows Vista

Overview

From large corporations managing hundreds of applications to small companies looking for a simple way to migrate software to the Windows Installer (MSI) standard, AdminStudio makes it easy for any organization to maintain reliable software.

Migrating Applications to MSI for Windows XP and Windows Vista

Don’t let converting legacy applications to MSI hold up your Windows XP or Windows Vista migration. AdminStudio's automated, intelligent tools make it easy to quickly convert any application to MSI and test it to ensure it will deploy successfully and run reliably on any Windows OS, including Windows Vista.

Centrally Managing Resources and Packaging Projects

Besides powerful software packaging technology, enterprises looking to standardize packaging across their organization need centralized management tools. AdminStudio has the enterprise-class functionality organizations need to effectively and securely manage all the people, projects, and data involved in the packaging process.

	Quick and Easy MSI Repackaging Only AdminStudio can convert every setup, even InstallScript MSIs, into 100% pure MSI packages. It's the only tool that can see inside native InstallShield setups, capture all their information, and convert them into MSIs. The Repackager does the work for you, saving you significant time without sacrificing accuracy.
	MSI Customization and Validation Quickly customize any MSI package to meet the needs of every user group in your enterprise. The Editor is powered by InstallShield®, the world's standard in MSI authoring and editing, making it easy to directly customize packages and author transforms.
	Conflict Identification and Resolution Every time you distribute applications and patches you risk creating conflicts that crash other applications and disrupt systems. AdminStudio automatically tests your applications and patches for conflicts against the applications and OSs in your enterprise and eliminates problems before you deploy.
	Quality Assurance Testing AdminStudio automatically tests your packages to guarantee they will work — and continue to work — as expected once installed. It can also simulate the deployment of an application or patch without physically installing it on any machine. Deployment results are reported back without risk to your environment, enabling you to make corrections before actual deployment.
	Hand Off Packages to Any Deployment Solution For organization using software deployment solutions, AdminStudio not only prepares reliable packages for distribution, it also automatically releases them to your solution. AdminStudio is fully integrated with every software deployment tool - including SMS, ZENworks®, LANDesk®, Marimba®, Tivoli®, ManageSoft®, and Active Directory® — saving you time while ensuring an error-free package handoff.
	Improve License Tracking and Management Many software applications arrive from their vendor either FLEX-enabled or LUM-enabled, which means they are ready to be tracked and managed by Macrovision's FLEXnet Manager. But for those programs that aren't FLEX-enabled or LUM-enabled, IT can use AdminStudio to inject license tracking capabilities into them, making them visible to FLEXnet Manager.