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Support for MSI installer package for Windows native apps #3019

Open numaanashraf opened 7 years ago

numaanashraf commented 7 years ago

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

lakario commented 7 years ago

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

jonzim commented 7 years ago

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 commented 6 years ago

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 commented 6 years ago

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

prashantagarwal commented 6 years ago

Tracking in #4576

syco26 commented 4 years ago

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

verzada commented 4 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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

akormilin commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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

verzada commented 2 years ago

Any news to share about it?

alexhass commented 2 years ago

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 commented 2 years ago

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 commented 2 years ago

I need this for non-enterprise licenses, too.

argenstijn commented 2 years ago

Really important to support for non enterprise users as well.

kellymenzel commented 2 years ago

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

kgirma commented 2 years ago

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

maksymgendin commented 2 years ago

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 😬