AdminStudio Enterprise

For information on the differences between Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions please see the Edition Features Matrix in the Evals & Downloads section.

What's new in AdminStudio V11.5 SP2?

• Integration of AdminStudio with App Portal and FlexNet Manager Platform.
• Support for specifying custom extended attributes for applications.
• Import applications from System Center 2012 Configuration Manager using the Platform API.
• Support for publishing .EXE files to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
• New OS compatibility tests in Test Center.

What’s new in AdminStudio 11.5 SP1?

• Enhanced Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Application Model Properties - When a package is imported into the Application Catalog, Application Manager mines package elements for deployment metadata, which is valuable information to have when deploying Windows Installer or App-V packages using Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. 
• Enhancements to Creating Requirements - You use the Requirements Wizard to add requirements to a package that the target system needs to meet in order for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to be able to successfully deploy this package.
• Viewing and Editing Return Codes - In AdminStudio 11.5 SP1, you can now edit an MSI and EXE package’s return codes in the Application Manager interface. Return codes are used to indicate whether a restart is required, whether an installation is complete, and to customize the text shown to users when a specific code is returned.
• Changing the Priority of Deployment Types - When an application has multiple deployment types, the order in which they will be evaluated in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager depends upon the deployment type’s assigned priority. When a deployment type meets the specified requirements, it will be run and then no further deployment types on the priority list will be evaluated. By default, Application Manager assigns a deployment type a priority based upon their import order. In AdminStudio 11.5 SP1, you can now modify the priority setting of an application’s deployment types on the Change Deployment Type Priority dialog box.
• Improved Automation using the AdminStudio API Platform - In AdminStudio 11.5 SP1, new commands are available to improve automation using the Platform API including importing .EXE Files using Invoke-ASImportPackage of the Platform API and running Application Compatibility Tests Using the Platform API.
• Additional Operating System Compatibility Tests - In AdminStudio 11.5 SP1, several new operating system application compatibility tests are available including compatibility issues with known programs at Startup, 32-bit drivers and installation to secure locations.
• Report Center Enhancements - New package history reports in the Report Centre

What's new in AdminStudio V11.5?

Test Center (Enterprise and Professional Edition only)

• A new unified reporting and issue management interface called Test Center simplifies and streamlines all phases of application compatibility testing
• Test Center allows you to execute a broad range of compatibility, validation and conflict tests, manage and remediate issues, and monitor overall status in a single location. By standardizing the management of issues, IT teams can be more productive and deliver applications to users faster and more reliably
• In Test Center you can manage the resolution of issues efficiently with the ability to filter results by test category and resolve a single set of issues, groups of issues, or all issues as well as suppress tests that the packaging team feels should not be run

Enhanced Integration with Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (Enterprise and Professional Edition only)

• AdminStudio now supports expanded forms of data migrated and imported into the new application model, including hardware requirements and application dependencies

Create and Manage Microsoft Server App-V Applications (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack only)

• Convert server applications into Microsoft Server App-V format for use in the Microsoft Private Cloud
• Provision operating system images from SCVMM for use in capturing and deploying Microsoft Server App-V packages.
• Automatically initiate the Microsoft App-V Sequencer and start the sequencing process
• Retrieve the captured Server App-V packages and import them into the AdminStudio Application Catalog, where they can be cataloged, tested and deployed back to SCVMM

Support for the Beta Release of Microsoft App-V 5.0 (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack and Professional Edition with Virtualization Pack only)

• Supports Microsoft's recent beta of App-V 5.0
• Import App-V 5.0 packages into the Application Catalog and view data about each App-V package
• Virtual Package Editor enables you to open and view App-V 5 packages

Windows 8 Compatibility Assessment, Issue Identification and Fixing (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack and Professional Edition with Virtualization Pack only)

• Automatically run thousands of Windows 8 compatibility tests on each application and review results in a unified interface that presents compatibility issues for both installation package and application code
• Auto-generate standard MSI transforms to fix the vast majority of installation package related issues

Automated Internet Explorer 10 Compatibility Testing for Web Applications (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack only)

• Simple, bulk loading of Web site addresses (URLs) and Web-based applications for Internet Explorer 10 compatibility testing

Windows Server 2012 Compatibility Assessment, Issue Identification and Fixing (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack and Professional Edition with Virtualization Pack only)

• Conduct compatibility testing, remediation and reporting to identify which applications will work in the Windows Server 2012 environment and automatically fix application issues
• Leverage in-depth testing and reporting to identify compatibility issues with both installation package and application code

Integration with Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack and Professional Edition with Virtualization Pack only)

• Microsoft ACT compatibility status for all applications, is displayed in Application Manager, bringing together package-level and dynamic user testing into a single place for integrated analysis

Automatic Compatibility Testing on Import (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack and Professional Edition with Virtualization Pack only)

• Configure compatibility tests to run automatically on import, saving valuable time and eliminating the need for manual intervention

Automatic Import of Remediation Results (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack and Professional Edition with Virtualization Pack only)

• Results from the remediation step are automatically imported into the AdminStudio catalog further streamlining the application readiness process

AdminStudio solutions enable enterprise IT departments to prepare reliable packages for deployment quickly and correctly. Whether you have one packaging team or multiple IT centers around the globe, AdminStudio standardizes and streamlines your software packaging process, improving the reliability of your applications, reducing desktop management costs, and increasing IT productivity.

AdminStudio provides IT with one of the most advanced solutions for quickly preparing reliable software packages for enterprise use. It combines automated software packaging technology with centralized process management tools to ensure the packages you deploy install successfully and behave reliably.

AdminStudio combines powerful software packaging technology with centralized process management tools to speed you through the packaging process.

Product Benefits:

• Reduce your organization’s application management costs
• Improve the reliability and availability of your applications
• Increase IT productivity and collaboration across your organization
• Help eliminate expensive and embarrassing deployment disasters
• Make pre-deployment patch testing far more efficient and manageable (Professional Edition and above)

Feature Highlights:

• ENHANCED! Speed packages through a proven, standardized process with intelligent, automated tools
• NEW! Centrally manage your environment and the packaging process with new enterprise-class tools
• ENHANCED! Convert any application, even InstallScript MSIs, to reliable Windows Installer packages
• ENHANCED! Customize MSIs to meet the needs of any user group
• ENHANCED! Identify and eliminate software conflicts before deploying applications and patches
• ENHANCED! Run pre-deployment QA tests to ensure the reliability of new applications (Professional Edition and above)
• ENHANCED! Hand off deploy-ready packages to any deployment system, including SMS, ZENworks®, LANDesk®, Tivoli®, and ManageSoft®

Maintain Reliable Software
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 Windows Installer
Don’t let converting legacy applications to Windows Installer (MSI) hold up your OS migration. AdminStudio’s automated, intelligent tools make it easy to quickly convert any application to MSI and take advantage of cost-saving benefits such as self-healing, rollback, and install-on-demand.

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

ENHANCED! Quick and Easy MSI Repackaging
Only AdminStudio can convert every setup, even InstallScript MSIs, into 100% pure MSI packages. AdminStudio is 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.

ENHANCED! MSI Customization and Validation
With AdminStudio, you can quickly customize any MSI package to meet the needs of every user group in your enterprise. The Editor is now powered by InstallShield® 11, the world’s standard in MSI authoring and editing, making it even easier to directly customize MSIs and author transforms.

ENHANCED! 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 operating systems in your enterprise and helps you eliminate any problems before you deploy.

ENHANCED! 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.

ENHANCED! 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 system. AdminStudio is fully integrated with every software deployment solution – including SMS, ZENworks®, LANDesk®, Marimba®, Tivoli®, ManageSoft®, and Active Directory® – saving you time while ensuring an error-free package handoff.

The Maintenance Plans annually include:

• All software upgrades for your product
• Unlimited telephone access to Technical Support (Silver)
• Unlimited telephone access to our Senior Support Engineers exclusively (Gold)
• Unlimited requests using mySupport (interactive, web-based access to Technical Support)
• Protection against price increases for the duration of your plan
• Renewal notices sent automatically, to insure your plan against expiration
• Guaranteed minimum of one major upgrade to your AdminStudio product, no matter the time frame
• A Maintenance Plan Card detailing all benefits and plan specifics
• Invitations to product beta programs (Gold)

The Bronze Maintenance Plan includes:

• All available paid upgrades to your product, guaranteed for twelve months from purchase date
• 24 x 7 access to Knowledge Base
• 24 x 7 access to product Web Communities
• Sample Code, Sample Projects, and White Papers
• Technical Webinars / Online Product Demonstrations
• Unlimited Web-based requests using mySupport

In addition the Silver Maintenance Plan includes:

• Unlimited telephone support requests

In addition the Gold Maintenance Plan includes:

• Priority queuing through dedicated channels
• All issues addressed by senior support engineers
• Priority involvement in Beta Programs