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• Repackaging has some advantages: you can configure the install the way you want it, you know exactly what's going on, and you get a nice MSI which SCCM does well with. It's disadvantages: a lot of lazy packagers repackage everything, including MSIs (which makes things... interesting). If you repackage/snapshot a vendor install, you're on your own and it's not supported. A poorly done repackage contains things that can really hurt your environment so quality checking needs to be very strong. If it were me setting up my environment, I'd consider it a tool in my toolbox, but I'd also look at making a script wrapper for non-msi installs first and snapshot as a last resort. - Arminius 12 years ago
• Agreed Arminius - Tomsquatch 12 years ago