Installshield Premier

The top-tier InstallShield Premier Edition is the world’s most powerful and flexible solution for Windows installations. Software companies serious about providing reliable, professional installations for their products trust the InstallShield Premier Edition.

InstallShield Premier Edition gives you all the capabilities of our Professional Edition, plus tons of exclusive functionality, including:

• Avoid common installation issues—Validators in the InstallShield Best Practices Validation Suite alert you if your installation violates any best practices guidelines.
• Maintain a clean build system—With the Standalone Build engine, you can use only the part of InstallShield that compiles installations.
• Improve your end user's experience—With refreshed end-user dialog designs.
• Easily convert legacy installations into MSI packages—With InstallShield Repackager, you can easily create MSI packages.
• Localize your installation—InstallShield's multilingual support lets you create installations for 35 runtime languages from one installation project.
• Quickly roll out new installations—With network repositories, it's now easy to build a repository of common elements that multiple installation authors can access and reuse in projects.
• Create trial versions without modifying code—With the try-and-die type of trialware's simple configuration changes, you can easily offer potential customers a fully functional. trial version of your product (After the predetermined trial limit has been reached on an end user's machine, the trial version automatically expires).
• Save time with the IIS Scanner—Only the Premier Edition allows you to import the IIS data from an existing Web site into your InstallShield project automatically using the IIS Scanner.

InstallShield Premier Edition is available as either a node-locked or concurrent license. You can also optionally purchase the Virtualization Pack with the Premier Edition to support building Microsoft App-V virtual packages.

Following are the minimum requirements for systems that run InstallShield (the authoring environment), as well as for target systems that run the installations created with InstallShield (the run-time environment).

For Systems Running InstallShield:

• Processor Pentium III-class PC (500 MHz or higher recommended)
• RAM 256 MB of RAM (512 MB preferred)
• Hard Disk 500 MB free space
• Display Designed for XGA resolution at 1024 × 768 or higher
• Operating System Windows XP
  Windows Server 2003
  Windows Vista
  Windows Server 2008
  Windows 7
  Windows Server 2008 R2
• Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (IE 5.5 or later recommended)
• Privileges Administrative privileges on the system
• Mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse or other compatible pointing device

For Target Systems (Desktop Computers)
Target systems must meet the following minimum operating system requirement:
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2

For Target Systems (Mobile Devices)
InstallShield includes support for adding mobile device installations to desktop installations that use Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center or Microsoft ActiveSync to transfer files to a mobile device.

InstallShield also includes support for straight-to-device installations that do not use Windows Mobile Device Center, ActiveSync, or any other desktop component.

For an overview of the different options that InstallShield supports, see "Creating Installations for Mobile Devices" in the InstallShield Help Library.

Windows Mobile Device Requirements

InstallShield supports many Windows Mobile platforms and processors. The Windows Mobile platforms are:

• Windows Mobile 6.x Professional and Classic
• Windows Mobile 6.x Standard
• Windows Embedded CE 6.x
• Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC
• Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone
• Windows CE .NET 5.0
• Windows CE .NET 4.x
• Pocket PC 2003
• Pocket PC 2002
• Pocket PC
• Palm-size PC 2.11
• Palm-size PC 2.01
• Handheld PC 2000
• Handheld PC Pro
• Handheld PC 2.0
• Smartphone 2003
• Smartphone 2002
  

Note that if a platform is not included in the list, it does not mean InstallShield does not support it. It simply means that you cannot set conditions for that specific platform by default. To add support for additional platforms or to change the conditions for targeting a specific platform, you can modify the Settings.xml file that is installed with InstallShield. For more information, see "Modifying the List of Available Windows Mobile Platforms or their Associated Settings" in the InstallShield Help Library.

InstallShield includes support for the following Windows Mobile processors:

• ARM920
• ARM820
• ARM720
• Common Executable Format
• Hitachi SH4
• Hitachi SH3E
• Hitachi SH3
• i686
• i586
• i486
• MIPS R4000
• MIPS R3000
• MIPS R2000
• SHx SH4
• SHx SH3
• StrongARM-XScale
  

Palm OS Device Requirements

InstallShield supports Palm OS 3.5 and later.

Desktop Requirements for Windows Mobile Device Installations

Requirements for the desktop computers that are used to install applications on Windows Mobile devices are:

• Microsoft ActiveSync 3.x or later on Windows XP (ActiveSync 4.x is required for Windows Mobile 5.x or later devices)
• Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows Vista
• Administrative privileges
  

Desktop Requirements for Palm OS Device Installations

Palm HotSync is required for the desktop computers that are used to install applications on Palm OS devices.