Make Your Installation Experience “Fast and Flawless”

It’s been about six months since the release of InstallShield 2014 (where does the time go?) and the InstallShield engineers are working hard on the next release, which will be here before we know it. Until then, here is brief refresher of the key features in InstallShield 2014, as well as links to other helpful resources.

• Install Web Applications to Microsoft® Azure™ and Microsoft IIS using Microsoft Web Deploy – With new support for Microsoft Web Deploy, Suite/Advanced UI installations give your customers the flexibility to deploy Web applications to their choice of infrastructure—local machines, remote servers in the data center or Microsoft Azure in the cloud.
• Design DPI-Aware Installations – All InstallShield project types are now DPI-aware, ensuring an optimized user experience when your customers install software on high-DPI devices.
• Check for the Latest Setup Every Time an Installation is Run – Suite/Advanced UI installations can automatically check for the latest version of a setup any time the installation is run, including from the installation’s maintenance mode, making it simpler for users to find, download, and install your latest product releases.
• Upgrade Multi-instance Installations – Develop upgrades that can detect the presence of multiple instances of a product on target systems, providing end users with options to select the instance to upgrade. Now supports both major and minor upgrades.
• Provision Virtual Machines from the InstallShield IDE for Testing Installations – Reduce testing time and eliminate manual steps by automatically provisioning virtual machines: choose test image snapshots, power on virtual machines, and stage setups directly from the InstallShield IDE. Supports VMware® vSphere, VMware Workstation, and Microsoft Hyper-V®.

Here is what Gerard Nicol, CEO of GazillaByte, says about InstallShield 2014:

"We sell software in a competitive market, so we make sure our users have no reason to look at other products. InstallShield has been giving our users a fast and flawless installation experience for the past 15 years, and with the release of InstallShield 2014, we are completely confident that we will continue to exceed expectations, especially in the cloud and virtualized environments. Every software experience starts with installation; Flexera provides us with the best of starts."

You are also invited to view the on-demand webinar, What’s New in InstallShield 2014, or watch the InstallShield 2014 product demo video.

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