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EMCO MSI Package Builder Professional is a straightforward authoring utility that provides you with a reliable means of creating, maintaining and distributing Windows installers, based on the given parameters. It helps you to create MSI packages effortlessly, modify existing packages and repackage setups. Apart from that, EMCO MSI Package Builder Professional enables you to set a command, a URL address or a path to a program to be launched before or after the install or uninstall process takes place and define when to execute the selected action.

The program keeps a clean and user-friendly interface that you can navigate through in order to create MSI packages, as well as convert complex installations into the MSI format. Additionally, it comes with several wizards that guide you throughout the entire process of converting an EXE installation to a MSI package, creating new projects or simply opening an existing project.

How can EMCO MSI Package Builder help you? Let's identify week points of remote deployment first. One of the widely used means of remote installation is the domain's Group Policy. It's pretty powerful, but if you consider using it, you have to be aware of its requirements:
Group Policy only enables deployment of those applications that are ready for silent unattended installation. The automatic process nature leaves no place for options selection and interaction with the user, hence the setup file design should account for this.
A Windows Installer package (MSI file) is needed for installation though Group Policy. Deployment of EXE files is not supported directly, so you need to repackage EXE to MSI.
Obviously, there are many installations that do not meet these requirements. Is it possible to deploy them remotely? Certainly! This is a task for EMCO MSI Package Builder to produce new or convert existing installations into a format suitable for silent unattended installation.