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An installation executable (*.exe) that contains all of the necessary pre-requisites, required and optional components can easily exceed 1GB in size. Issues such as:
are commonplace as software installations become more complex. In response to this, software and game developers are now delivering a small executable that downloads the installation files. This includes companies such as Microsoft, Bentley, Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox) and more. Once downloaded, the administrator can create a deployment image to distribute the needed components to install the software on each users machine. Some advantages of using a deployment image include:
For information on creating a deployment image, please refer to: Creating a deployment image