AdminStudio Enterprise with Virtualization Pack

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 11?

Software Tagging Support (Enterprise, Professional and Standard Editions)

• AdminStudio 11 now includes ISO 19770-2 tagging as standard, which enables a more efficient software asset management and license optimization process. The ISO tag file contains accurate descriptive information on the application (publisher, name, version, etc.) and simplifies the software asset management task by enabling the collection and analysis of the tags to provide an accurate picture of application inventory.

Facilitating Migration to Microsoft's Configuration Manager 2012 (Enterprise and Professional Edition only)

• AdminStudio 11 provides import functionality to help speed your migration to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012.  Bulk import eliminates the laborious task of importing applications manually one at a time.
• AdminStudio 11 gathers application deployment metadata by mining package elements like dependencies.  In addition to metadata, AdminStudio also identifies product level data such as product icon, manufacturer, scripts, etc.
• AdminStudio offers the option to automatically identify the best candidates for migration to Configuration Manager 2012.
• AdminStudio now has the ability to publish applications to Microsoft's Configuration Manager 2007 and 2012.

Microsoft Server App-V Application Suitability Testing (Enterprise with Virtualization Pack and Professional with Virtualization Pack Editions only)

• AdminStudio 11 performs automatic suitability testing of packages for Microsoft Server App-V. By identifying conversion issues in advance, AdminStudio 11 helps avoid compatibility problems.

InstallShield Suiting/Wrapping (Enterprise Edition only)

• Included with AdminStudio 11 Enterprise Edition, InstallShield 2012 Premier edition streamlines the bundling of applications into suites. It handles application dependencies, post-install updates and other issues to minimize the risk of rolling out incomplete packages or packages with out-of-date applications.

Platform (API) (Enterprise Edition only)

• AdminStudio 11 includes an API that enables users to sequence and orchestrate individual AdminStudio automated tasks to perform higher-level processes such as such as importing packages, checking for virtualization readiness, converting to virtualized packages, testing packages and distributing to Microsoft's Configuration Manager . You can use.NET, PowerShell, scripting languages such as VB Script to communicate with AdminStudio.

Enterprise IT departments are under constant pressure to quickly deploy new applications, updates, and patches. But failing to properly prepare these packages for deployment poses serious risk. Deploying bad packages can crash critical applications and cost enterprises dearly in terms of help desk costs and lost productivity.

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