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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, here are some interesting links for MSI files.

Our target by the way, is Windows installer 4.5 (Windows Installer 4.5 requires Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and later, and Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and later.)


Tools to mess with MSIs:
http://code.google.com/p/lessmsi/
http://msi2xml.sourceforge.net/
http://msi-repackaging.sourceforge.net/
http://dennisbareis.com/msidiff.htm

Informational:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc185688%28VS.85%29.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_installer_team/
http://installsite.org/pages/en/msifaq/a/1001.htm#matrix
http://wix.codeplex.com/


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