Orca MSI Editor

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Brent

I had to use a program that Microsoft puts out for free today. It is called orca and it can be used to edit MSIs at the database level. It is a good tool, but to get it you have to download like 300 megs of junk from MS. It seemed pretty dumb, so I am posting here so that I don’t have to do that anymore.

Download orca.msi

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  10. Nhilesh Baua says:
    August 18, 2006 at 12:19 am

    Thanks dude,

    I was almost numb to get this.
    Tons of thanks again.

  11. guest says:
    August 18, 2006 at 12:46 am

    tyttyty

  12. Kamran Khan says:
    August 23, 2006 at 2:10 pm

    Thanks alot dude You saved me from downloading 300mb file on dialup connection.It was impossible for me to download that much big file on dialup connection Thanks again. Love You Brother

  13. Shivanand says:
    August 25, 2006 at 5:02 am

    thanx a million dude i was in worry about whether i could get this file and here it is!……ur the best…………keep up the good work!

  14. Leslie says:
    August 30, 2006 at 6:53 pm

    Thanks very much!!

    Best regards,
    Leslie

  15. Nahum says:
    September 2, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    Wow thats a lot. I needed this, but I didn’t want to download 300 megabytes of things. THANK YOU SO MUCH

  16. Slonjo says:
    September 12, 2006 at 8:32 am

    Yes, thank-you!!!

  17. Carl J Gulbrandsen says:
    September 14, 2006 at 8:08 am

    HI
    I am an IT-executive at a Norwegian high school and I found your website searching the net for ORCA as I needed it for solving a problem with GPO-install of Isscripts.

    Thanks!

    Carl

  18. Clumpsy Dude says:
    September 17, 2006 at 5:35 pm

    Thanks for this nitty stuff … i need it and you save me from downloading sdk pile-of-crap that i don’t really need.

    Tnx save me from desperation ….. gotta go 🙂

  19. lecks says:
    September 19, 2006 at 10:33 am

    ditto, thanks

  20. Arie says:
    September 21, 2006 at 3:23 am

    Thanks Brent. Saves a lot of time!

  22. RAVISHANKAR says:
    September 23, 2006 at 11:56 am

    GREAT I WAS SEARCHING FOR THIS SINGLE FILE. AS ON DIALUP IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DOWNLOAD FULL SDK.

    (THANKS)

  23. Josf says:
    September 28, 2006 at 8:04 am

    Thanks a Million. Searching on Microshaft can be such a pain sometimes.

    Thank again

  24. Razor says:
    October 4, 2006 at 10:21 am

    Thanks a lot for orca

  25. Claudio says:
    October 13, 2006 at 2:07 pm

    Thanks, a lot. It’s really hard to get this application alone.

  26. Lyle Bert says:
    October 18, 2006 at 11:35 am

    Many many thanks – that was exactly what I needed!

  27. Smalltalk says:
    October 18, 2006 at 12:16 pm

    Thanks a ton!

  28. drubicza says:
    October 20, 2006 at 11:51 am

    thanks so much, you’re saving my time. i’ve recommended your site to some of my friends.

    best regards,

    drubicza

  29. Obede Souto (Brazil) says:
    November 7, 2006 at 7:57 am

    Thanks a lot!

  30. Joe Walker says:
    November 13, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    Thanks a ton for this. May the rulers of great fortune bestow good luck unto you!

  31. Federico says:
    November 13, 2006 at 6:26 pm

    you rule! Saved me about two hours of life

  32. Ehud says:
    November 18, 2006 at 4:06 am

    Thanks.

    And people, start using NSIS instead! 🙂

  33. Orbit says:
    November 21, 2006 at 3:16 am

    Thank you very much

  34. Iain Miller says:
    November 22, 2006 at 4:34 am

    Cheers for that bud,
    the link I was given involved me going through a list of cab files downloading then extracting only to find they did not run on my platform.
    A real pain.

    I found a link with a little help and a link to some samples…
    “How to use the Orca database editor to edit Windows Installer files”

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q255905

    Hope it’s helpfule folks.

    Iain

  35. Karl says:
    December 1, 2006 at 10:38 am

    Muchas Gracias,

    msdn did not have it on thier download section. matter of fact you can search all day on msdn and not find a proper download of it.
    MS can make it a big pain to find thier usefull AND free tools. thanks for taking the “pain” out of MS.
    I googled orca.msi to find this site.

    Rule!

    by the way does anyone know of a good site to discuss ways of developng custom screens to capture installation information and then using that info later to update config files?
    we are not quite ready fro installshield 🙁 so for now I have to grab the property values off of a custom install screen, somehow.

    Karl

  36. Kenny M. says:
    December 5, 2006 at 11:15 am

    Bless you kind sir 🙂 lol

  37. Mohammad Omer Nasir says:
    December 8, 2006 at 6:08 am

    Thanks a lot Brent.

  38. Jason says:
    December 12, 2006 at 12:40 am

    Thanks alot brent. Although i have a fast internet connection, i just didnt see the point of downloading the whole pack just for this.
    Definately saved alot of time.

  39. TRIGGER says:
    December 14, 2006 at 12:49 pm

    thanks a lot!
    saved hours!

  40. Neva Xisted says:
    December 15, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    Thanks. The whole Microsoft Installer SDK is far too much of a burden, just to tweak one msi file…

  41. Sha says:
    December 17, 2006 at 9:22 am

    Thanks a lot man. Saved a lot of wait.

  42. Paul H says:
    December 19, 2006 at 11:01 am

    Cheers mate…

  43. dp says:
    December 25, 2006 at 6:54 am

    thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  44. fred says:
    December 27, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    Thanks! you are a helpful person!

  45. Vix says:
    December 28, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    Way to look out for your fellow humans. Much appreciated!

  46. Pamela Reinskou says:
    December 28, 2006 at 9:45 pm

    Now I can finally go home. Major problem with one of their MSI files and I have to tweak it so I have been trying to download the SDK while searching for this single file.

    Bless you!!

  47. Justin says:
    January 1, 2007 at 1:38 am

    Keep up the good work 🙂

  48. Cloud says:
    January 2, 2007 at 2:56 am

    thanks for such good stuff~~

  50. Richard says:
    January 2, 2007 at 10:54 am

    I can’t thank you enough!!

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