Home Ribbon Page
The Home Ribbon page contains the actions for repackaging, projects management and deployment package creation. This section describes each group from this page and all available actions.
Builder Ribbon Group
The Builder Ribbon group is used to provide access to wizards specially designed to simplify the installation repackaging and projects management workflow.
Repackage Installation The Repackage Installation button from the Builder group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to open the Repackage Installation wizard, that is designed to help you with the repackaging process. |
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Project Setup The Project Setup button from the Builder group on the Home Ribbon page opens the project setup wizard, that can be used as an entry point both for managing MSI Package Builder projects and creating MSI packages on the basis of those projects. |
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Create MSI Package The Create MSI Package button from the Builder group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to generate an MSI package based on the selected project. |
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Create App-V Package The Create App-V Package button from the Builder group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to generate an App-V package based on the selected project. |
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Create MSIX/AppX Package The Create MSIX/AppX Package button from the Builder group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to generated an MSIX/AppX package based on the selected project. |
Project Management Ribbon Group
The Project Management Ribbon group contains the actions on managing the projects storage and a set of projects available in the Projects view.
New The New button from the Project Management group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to create a new project with a single empty package in it. |
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Open The Open button from the Project Management group on the Home Ribbon page allows you to open projects available in the projects storage. |
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Close The Close button from the Project Management group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to close the selected projects, thus remove them from the Projects view. |
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Close All The Close All button from the Project Management group on the Home ribbon page allows you to close all currently opened projects, thus remove them from the Projects view. |
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Rename The Rename button from the Project Management group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to provide a new name for the selected project. |
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Delete The Delete button from the Project Management group on the Home Ribbon page allows you to delete the selected projects from the projects storage. |
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Import The Import button from the Project Management group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to create a new MSI Package Builder project based on an existing deployment package or a project archive file. |
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Export The Export button from the Project Management group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to export all project contents to a compressed file. |
Capture Ribbon Group
The Capture Ribbon group should be used to control the manually initiated advanced monitoring of changes to create a project for further generation of deployment packages based on those changes.
Start Monitoring The Start Monitoring button from the Capture group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to start a new session for tracking changes performed to the system. |
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Stop Monitoring The Stop Monitoring button from the Capture group on the Home Ribbon page should be used to stop the currently running monitoring session. |
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Manage VM Profiles The Manage VM Profiles button from the Capture group on the Home Ribbon page allows managing virtual machines used for installations monitoring. |