Change and Customize Installations to Pre-Configure Their Options and Behavior

EMCO MSI Package Builder is an installation authoring tool, that offers an easy approach to customizing and changing existing installations. It can be used to create custom MSI packages from existing installations when you need to extend or change the installation behavior. The application allows you to capture the original installation process and produce a silent MSI package that makes an identical installation and can be customized. Using this approach, you can customize any third-party installations.

Latest release: Version 11.0January 31, 2024

EMCO MSI Package Builder: Installation Customization Tool

EMCO MSI Package Builder is an MSI editor used by network administrators in order to customize and change installations and prepare them for network deployment.

Installations customization and modification belong to the main features of EMCO MSI Package Builder. You can apply various changes to existing third-part installations: for example, modify installed resources, merge several installations into one, add shortcuts, pre-configure options, etc. The application allows you to perform MSI importing and repackage installations to an MSI in order to access the installation data and change or customize it.

Repackaging and customizing installations

Installation Changing and Customization Features

MSI Package Importing

You can import an existing MSI package to get access to its internal structure. After importing, the application creates a new MSI project that contains the file system, registry, system services and environment variables taken from the original MSI. You can apply changes and generate a new custom MSI package.

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Installation Options Customization

If you need to prepare an installation for a remote deployment, you can repackage it to a silent MSI package. During the repackaging process, you have to configure all the installation options indicating the values you need, so that the produced MSI package can be installed silently and automatically with no requests sent to the user.

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Installation Process Modification

If an existing installation doesn't meet your needs, you can customize it in line with your requirements. In this case, the original installation is used as the source for producing a custom MSI package that can extend or modify the behavior of the original installation. This process is really easy and doesn't require any special skills.

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Installations Splitting and Merging

You can split one installation to multiple parts, and combine multiple installs into a single one. To do this, you need to create a corresponding MSI project for every installation using the MSI importing or installation repackaging features. Having created MSI projects, you can split or combine them according to your needs.

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Compare Features and Select the Edition

The program is available in three editions with the different set of the features.
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Professional Edition

The Professional Edition allows capturing changes of third-party installations using the Live Monitoring technology. Captured changes can be modified and used to generate customized MSI packages. Also this edition includes MSI decompile feature that makes possible to open and modify existing MSI packages.

Architect Edition

The Architect Edition includes all the available MSI repackaging features that allow you to customize installations. This edition also allows generating App-V, MSIX/AppX packages using the same project data, so you can generate MSI packages, App-V and MSIX/AppX packages depending on your needs.

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