Putting InstallAware on a shared/network disk

[djm]

I've developed an installer using the IA IDE on a single machine and would like to now allow the package to be built on-demand in an automated build environment. I tried just copying the C:\\Program Files\\InstallAware\\InstallAware 6 directory to a network share so that any machine in our build farm could access miabuild.exe to compile and build a package. Everthing *seemed* to work right except I noticed that the packages were much smaller on those built from the network shared miabuild. Upon further investigation, the packages were missing any and all "File bags" that were otherwise being copied into the package on the machine that had gone through the standard install process.

I would very much like to make use of the IA command-line build from a network share on multiple machines without having to go through the entire install which takes upwards of 2 hours per machine when you install a few options.

I wonder what changes occur on the 'standard install' machine that would cause 'file bag' and possibly other things I haven't encountered yet to not work.

If someone could provide some guidance here, it would be greatly appreciated. installing on 10s of machines is far too time consuming and the copy to the network drive I've already tested seems to be VERY close to working. What are the one or two (hopefully) things need to make this build completely from a network drive?

[djm]

Find Plug-In Authoring Overview in the Help and look at the bottom of that Help page for the registry entries required to find the plugins. That worked for me. Thanks to Candice for offline help on this issue.