{"id":66852,"date":"2026-11-10T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/pdf24-creator-updates-msi-settings\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:37:08","slug":"pdf24-creator-updates-msi-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/pdf24-creator-updates-msi-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"For administrators: updates keep the MSI settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you deploy PDF24 Creator with the MSI package, updates used to mean extra work. Since version 11.33.0:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An update with the EXE setup, also via \"Check for updates\", keeps the program folder, components and options of an MSI installation. Before, everything ended up in the default folder with the default selection.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>MSI updates and repairs keep the settings of the PDF and fax printer as well as the program folder, deselected components and options, even without the command line of the first installation.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Updates keep the logon account of the PDF24 Windows service, for example for saving to a network share on a print server. Only updating an MSI installation of version 11.32.0 or older still resets it once, because the old package removes the service.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>An update replaces the Explorer extension without closing the Explorer or asking for a restart.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All options for deploying in a company are in the <a href=\"https:\/\/creator.pdf24.org\/manual\/11\/\">manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you deploy PDF24 Creator with the MSI package, updates used to mean extra work. Since version 11.33.0: All options for deploying in a company are in the manual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.pdf24.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}