InstallShield AdminStudio 2.0 Identifying and Resolving Conflicts D. E. Levine
ConflictSolver
This AdminstStudio 2.0 tool is used to identify potential conflicts between Windows Installer packages. In a great many cases ConflictSolver is capable of resolving the issues and ensuring interoperability between Windows Installer setups. It does this in two ways:
1. Validation allows administrators to verify Windows installer packages are built to specific criteria. These criteria are usually Microsoft guidelines.
If a package is valid, any occuring conflicts can be isolated to those between packages rather than any conflicts resulting from incorrectly built packages.
In cases where a packages are invalid, using Tuner will generally allow you to fix the errors
2. Conflict Identification and Resolution reports conflicts between a given Windows Installer package and those already imported into the Conflict Database.
InstallShield ConflictSolver uses Application Conflict Evaluators (ACEs) as rules to determine if there are conflicts between different packages, and reports them as they are discovered.
It is possible, in many cases, for InstallShield ConflictSolver to fix many of the reported issues automatically. In some cases, however, resolution of the issues may require that a user intervene.
