Support for MSI installer package for Windows native apps

[numaanashraf]

Distribute MSI installers for windows native apps that support the following:

• silent installation
• install for all users
• SCCM compatible

[lakario]

It would be super useful to be able to install for All Users on locked down environments likes servers and jumpboxes.

[jonzim]

Rather than installing everything in “%UserProfile%/AppData/Local/Postman” (as it currently does), postman needs to use (per windows standards):

• “Program Files/Postman” for the program binaries and updater • “%UserProfile%/AppData/Local/Postman” (as you currently use) for the application ‘data’ (ie settings, local database, history, logs, etc).

this would allow install for all users, where each user keeps their own settings.

[Anton-V-K]

Recent versions 5.5.x still install themselves into current user profile, thus considerably eating disk space, since each version is about 200 MB (and updates itself regularly). The app should install itself into the location for all user and update itself only after the user enables such feature.

[alankchan]

This is the best feature to put in for enterprise adoption.

[prashantagarwal]

Tracking in #4576

[syco26]

Imhu, this perfectly reasonable request should not have been closed.

[verzada]

Currently Postman is a nightmare to install due to lack of supporting machine wide installation. Even SoapUI installs in Program Files by default.

I prefer Postman over SoapUI since it's obvious there have been a lot of thought around testing api's. Plus the sleek look and userfriendly interface.

[R3gi]

A few years passed since this issue was rised…Any update please? It's a blocker for enterprise usage (at least for my company).

[verzada]

A few years passed since this issue was rised…Any update please? It's a blocker for enterprise usage (at least for my company).

In mine too My company blocks all sorts of user installed software. So it's not fun to midigate installation

[epopisces]

I second the need for this, an MSI is something that would make deployment/management much easier for our enterprise.

[akormilin]

And here comes another bump. It doesn't seem you care much about this thread, but can you just give us the installation option we're used on corporate MS env, please? It doesn't seem either we're gonna stop asking)

[numaanashraf]

Hey everyone, we are actively looking into this now. We'll share an update soon on our early access & stable release timelines.

[verzada]

Any news to share about it?

[alexhass]

I was just ask to install this software. But a software that has no MSI machine installer cannot installed/deployed. Software that gets installed to local app data will be deleted when the user logs off as roaming profile is whiped from disk.

[jviotti]

We now offer MSI installers for enterprises as part of our Enterprise offering (https://learning.postman.com/docs/administration/managing-enterprise-deployment/) and we are exploring offering MSI installers for non-enterprise users.

[alexhass]

I need this for non-enterprise licenses, too.

[argenstijn]

Really important to support for non enterprise users as well.

[kellymenzel]

We're patiently hoping for non-enterprise plan support for MSI deployments as well.

[kgirma]

Seems like they're not in a hurry to resolve this. @postman-support

[maksymgendin]

Seems like they're not in a hurry to resolve this.

Or they have serious financial difficulties which they try to solve by pushing people to upgrade to the expensive Enterprise license using quite dirty methods like not providing a free MSI installer 😬

[irenuncio]

I could contribute with a MSI installer for mass deployment (or at least for per-machine installs), I also need it and have experience building installers. Could you please tell me how to contribute it, or who to get in touch with for this?