Install applications

What it does

Installs one or more applications from your catalogue in a single step. You pick the apps; StageReady already knows how to install each one — MSI, EXE, or Winget — so there's no install method to choose and no installer to paste. Apps install in order during setup, each one reported live and recorded permanently.

For the full story — how downloads work, why it's cheap and safe, the ready-to-deploy catalogue, and adding your own apps — see Application deployment.

Options

Option	What it controls
Applications	The list of apps to install, chosen from your catalogue. Required.

Good to know

• Straight from the vendor, signature-verified. MSI/EXE apps download from the vendor's own official URL at install time and have their Authenticode signature checked before they run. Nothing is re-hosted.
• One app failing doesn't stop the rest. By default this step continues through the list and reports each app's outcome individually, so one bad download doesn't sink the build.
• Each app has its own time limit. Every app is installed under its own timeout (15 minutes by default, adjustable per app). A single installer that hangs is stopped and marked failed on its own — the apps after it still install. No one slow app can block the whole step.
• EXE installers must run unattended. Setup runs with no screen and no one to click a wizard, so a custom EXE needs a silent/quiet switch (e.g. /S, /silent, /quiet; InstallShield /s; Inno Setup /VERYSILENT) supplied as its install arguments — almost every installer has one. An installer that only works by clicking through a wizard, with no unattended mode at all, can't be automated until it's repackaged. (Apps from the built-in catalogue already run silently — this only matters when you add your own EXE.)
• Needs a network, and runs after Windows is installed.

Part of the step catalogue.