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manojviduranga
Apr 22, 2022Iron Contributor
Package size get extremely larger than the original MSI file after preparing using IntuneWinAppUtil
Hi Folks, I've been trying to push Java (JRE) package via EndPoint Manager to WIn10 devices but the file size gets extremely large (2.9 GB) than its original MSI file which is just 80MB. And Mic...
- Apr 26, 2022Update - I still couldn't figure out the root cause however, I just tried the same in a separate device after downloading the tool again from the GitHub location specified above (with newly created source and output folders) and voila ! it went smoothly (finished up in a few seconds while the output file size is similar to the source file).
Thanks again for your prompt responses !
manojviduranga
Iron Contributor
Thanks Rudy_Ooms_MVP , andrew1810 for the prompt response !
I only had the .msi file in the source folder that was copied across from elsewhere but yes, the folder only contained that single file.
Version - I just downloaded the latest from Github which says "updated 10 months ago"(https://github.com/Microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-Tool)
manojviduranga
Apr 26, 2022Iron Contributor
Update - I still couldn't figure out the root cause however, I just tried the same in a separate device after downloading the tool again from the GitHub location specified above (with newly created source and output folders) and voila ! it went smoothly (finished up in a few seconds while the output file size is similar to the source file).
Thanks again for your prompt responses !
Thanks again for your prompt responses !
- En111_Oct 28, 2022Brass Contributor
manojviduranga this also randomly happened to me.
15 MB msi file -> 500MB intunewin file
Tried again, and it got to the expected 15 MB. Seems like a random bug.