Released: Oct 26, 2023

Updates in 6.1

Features

• Editor for PSAppDeployToolkit - The PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSAppDeployToolkit) allows you to deploy applications in a corporate environment without any additional effort. To simplify the wrapping of your installations with the help of the PSAppDeployToolkit framework, Package Wrapper has been developed. Highlights of Package Wrapper include:
  • Support of personal/team PSADT templates.
  • Easy package creation of required PSADT version.
  • Advanced script editor with syntax highlighting and row numbering.
  • Validation of logical structure.
  • Help with finding and adding actions and variables.
  • UI for managing package appearance settings.
• Repackage in Microsoft Windows Sandbox - Windows Sandbox is a built-in Windows OS feature that provides a temporary desktop environment to safely run applications in isolation. Software installed inside the Windows Sandbox environment remains "sandboxed" and runs separately from the host machine.This is an ideal environment for capturing installations and therefore support for Windows Sandbox has been developed in the Setup Capture. Advantages include:
  • Built-in Windows OS feature - no need to install and configure.
  • Instant start and close of Windows Sandbox.
  • No need to copy source and output files, as they are directly mapped.
  • Support of manual and fully unattended capturing mode.
  • In comparison to a regular VM, the sandbox is optimized for host resource consumption.
  • The desktop environment in Sandbox does not require an additional Windows license.
  • Provides a command-line interface (CLI) for automation.
• Repackage in Docker - Added support for capturing in Docker to the Setup Capture. The approach of Repackaging in Docker is identical to Repackaging in Windows Sandbox, except that Docker Desktop must be installed and configured manually.
  • Docker provides an isolated Windows environment for repackaging that can be recreated for each capture from a single Windows OS image. Docker also allows running multiple parallel instances of identical capturing containers.
  • With this release, you can repackage applications in Docker in a fully unattended mode and the command-line interface (CLI) provides automation abilities.
• Microsoft PowerShell in Custom Actions - Added support for PowerShell custom actions. Previously, such a task required several manual actions and had certain constraints. Now, custom actions for running PowerShell scripts support three options for the location where the PS script will be saved.
  • The storage location also affects the sequence position of the script run.
  • Currently support is available for running the script in the early stages of installer launch, right after the 'InstallInitialize' action.
  • If you need to view/modify the script, you can do that right in the Custom Actions Wizard with the help of the Script editor. This editor provides syntax highlighting, row numbing, and zoom options.
• Boost Performance of Remote Capturing - The approach of archiving resources that are transferred to and from a remote virtual machine during the repackaging process has been redesigned. According to tests, the new algorithm and multi-threading increased performance by 4 times.