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Andrew Taylor
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Andrew Taylor is an End-User Compute architect with 20 years IT experience across industries and a particular interest in Microsoft Cloud technologies, PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. Andrew graduated with a degree in Business Studies in 2004 from Lancaster University and since then has obtained numerous Microsoft certifications including Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Cybersecurity Architect Expert amongst others. He currently working as an EUC Architect for an IT Company in the United Kingdom, planning and automating the products across the EUC space. Andrew lives on the coast in the North East of England with his wife and two daughters.
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Packaging Win32 applications

Packaging into Win32 will be your primary method of application deployment, so this recipe is an important one to follow.

Getting started

Before we do any packaging, we need to keep our application source code tidy so that we can easily work out what is what when we need to update that weird and wonderful application in 2 years!

Important note

The packaging tool will grab every file in the Source directory you point it to, so make sure that the directory only has source files in it. If you point it at your Downloads folder, for example, you will find yourself wondering why a 2 MB installer is showing as 45 GB when packaged!

The packaging tool creates an intunewin file, which is effectively an encrypted ZIP file that uploads with a manifest into Azure Blob storage. When installing, your computer downloads, decrypts, and runs the installation specified.

This is entirely personal preference, but this folder layout works well:

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Published in: Jan 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805126546

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Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor is an End-User Compute architect with 20 years IT experience across industries and a particular interest in Microsoft Cloud technologies, PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. Andrew graduated with a degree in Business Studies in 2004 from Lancaster University and since then has obtained numerous Microsoft certifications including Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Cybersecurity Architect Expert amongst others. He currently working as an EUC Architect for an IT Company in the United Kingdom, planning and automating the products across the EUC space. Andrew lives on the coast in the North East of England with his wife and two daughters.
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