I've been using both Install Shield and Wise (Wise Installation Studio) for some time now and have mixed experience with both, but one thing puzzles me about Wise; there's no support for Application Pools! The IIS dialog in Wise only has support for IIS 5 features. I just can't fathom how they can keep releasing new versions of Wise without supporting IIS 6/7. Are no one using Wise for deploying web apps, web services etc? Are Install Shield the only choice for (advanced) plain Msi's?

Back in December 2006 I requested this feature from Wise on their forum and I got this answer:

“I've run it past the product manager, and there is no specific timescale for adding application pool support. I know it's come up once or twice before, but I think the overall demand is not significant enough to priorities this feature ahead of others.”

On their website they list key features and one of them is:

“Supports the latest technologies, including virtual applications and Microsoft Windows Vista.”

Fantastic! But no app pools! Later someone else requested this feature on my thread and Wise finally added a link where you can subscribe to this feature request. The more subscribers, the more attention it gets. Want to help me Wise out? Visit: https://kb.altiris.com/display/1n/articleDirect/index.asp?aid=3066&r=0.7956964 and click subscribe/unsubscribe on the right side, and hopefully this feature request will get Altiris Symantec's attention.