Deployment Package Manager (DPM) is an executable that allows you to create a clone of an AB Suite Windows application. The cloned application can co-exist with the original application on the same machine, or can be installed on a different machine.
Cloning of an AB Suite application is required because two instances of a system cannot coexist on the same machine. The Windows installer does not allow the MSI to be installed twice as it uses a unique product GUID. For two instances of the same system to co-exist, their package properties such as instance name and package installation directory should be different. The Windows installer then treats the second system as a new system with a new COM+ application. This is possible by creating a clone of the MSI using DPM. The cloned MSI will have a unique product GUID (along with other properties) which is different to that in the original MSI.
In addition, DPM provides an option to update the package properties of the cloned MSI or create partial MSIs of the cloned system.
DPM is available in AB Suite Installation Package/CD Runtime/Windows Runtime/Runtime Utilities/DeploymentPackageManager. You should manually copy the DPM executable from the Runtime CD to your computer. There is no need to install DPM in your computer.
DPM allows you to: