Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment Standard Edition

Macrovision Guidance

Published: August 27, 2005

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Overview

The Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) includes guidance from the software development corporation Macrovision that describes approaches to packaging applications that can be used with BDD. This guidance is referenced in the Core Applications and Supplemental Applications feature team guides.

The guidance includes:

•	Macrovision Application Preparation Roadmap.pdf
•	Macrovision Brochure.pdf
•	MSI Repackaging and Customization Best Practices Guide.pdf
•	The 20 Commandments of Software Packaging.pdf

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Documentation Overview

Macrovision Application Preparation Roadmap.pdf.

This at-a-glance guide, the Macrovision Application Preparation Roadmap, illustrates a role-based approach to the phases of preparing applications for deployment. It provides questions to consider and suggests tools that can help.

Macrovision Brochure.pdf

Software and patch deployment errors cost businesses billions of dollars each year, but they are preventable. The key is to implement a structured approach to preparing every application, update, and patch for enterprise distribution—an approach that involves software packaging, customization, and thorough predeployment testing.

Macrovision offers organizations of every size a complete line of application and patch impact management solutions and professional services based on industry best practices. This document, Reduce Your Enterprise’s Application Management Costs with Macrovision, highlights how these offerings work together to enable organizations to dramatically reduce problems associated with software package deployments.

MSI Repackaging and Customization Best Practices Guide.pdf

Many software vendors still do not provide Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) setups for their products. If you want an MSI installation, you will need to repackage the setup provided by the vendor into the Windows Installer format. Even when vendors do ship Windows Installer setups with their products, those packages almost always require some level of customization to suit the needs of your organization. A separate methodology is required to address two scenarios. This document, MSI Repackaging and Customization Best Practices Guide, discusses best practices to getting the job done either way.

The 20 Commandments of Software Packaging.pdf

Most system administrators have discovered that when it comes to software delivery in their network, they’re much better off creating a new, company-specific (repackaged) image of an application before releasing it. Unfortunately, not everyone uses the same set of rules for software packaging and, evidently, not everyone gets the same results. Macrovision, makers of AdminStudio—a comprehensive integrated packaging environment (IPE)—and authors Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest, both independent packaging consultants, have come up with the 20 commandments of software packaging. This is specific, practical advice on how to best package software. This white paper will take you through each step in the packaging process and provide practical advice on how to create your packages according to the principles outlined here. You’ll come away with a complete process that can help ensure the quality of your packages. This white paper aims to answer your questions and make sure that you learn how to gain the full benefits proper software packaging can bring.

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