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Package size get extremely larger than the original MSI file after preparing using IntuneWinAppUtil
- 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 !
Did you copy the MSI into a folder for the source? The intunewin app grabs anything in the folder you specify as the source folder, it sounds like the source location probably had more files in it.
andrew1810 as he told there were no aditional files in the source folder … it shouldnt be added to the intunewinfile… thats why i asked to extract it in the first response to be sure :)… so waiting for the repsonses
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)
- 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 !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.
