Good exe to msi converter

[chelseaye]

Hi,

 

Anyone has good exe to mis converter to share? Thanks!

[Peter33]

Sorry, but there is no converter of even a good converter at all. Wise package studio has a function for that, but allows you only to convert Microsoft or Install Shield Exe installers. And it only works in 10-20 Percent of the cases.

If you have an exe that can't be bothered to run unattended, you need to snapshot the installation. But try to avaoid that if possible.

[HSChronic]

AdminStudio 11 is the best for this. I don't think Wise is even making package studio anymore. The process sometimes is very straight forward and it is just a matter of building a VM, installing your conversion studio, then monitoring the install. Other times it is a lot more involved and requires going into the package framework after it is built and modifying things.

[Peter33]

Yep, you are right. Wise package studio got canceled right after we upgraded from 7 to 8 last year. I was pretty angry because we paid a lot of money for the enterprise licenses without having any information about the end of life of the product.

[SuperElvis]

Appdeploy repackager is a favorite of mine. It's free and will create an MSI package for you. Simple and it works - you can't ask for much more than that.

[ben_just]

On 5/9/2012 at 9:39 PM, Peter33 said:

Yep, you are right. Wise package studio got canceled right after we upgraded from 7 to 8 last year. I was pretty angry because we paid a lot of money for the enterprise licenses without having any information about the end of life of the product.

Same problem here a couple of years ago. There was an offer to switch to flexera adminstudio at a discounted rate. That was still too expensive and we moved to pace suite from infopulse.

[GarthMJ]

You should look at Advanced installer, it is prices right.