?? so that option doesn't really do anything?
it looks good on the glossy sales materials, same as Tivoli/Marimba/SMS Integration that does nothing useful
1) There should be no issues with a reboot. When installation monitoring works, it can sometimes continue after reboot.
When using snapshot mode during a reboot (you should only ever use multiple snapshots mode) the snapshot will include loads of junk that the PC makes during a reboot.
Make a snapshot of only a reboot as an excercise.
2) There is nothing
wrong with copying repackager on your clean image (You MUST NOT install AdminStudio there)
Normally in an Company you have several packagers and you all want to be using the same settings, have access to the same MergeModules, exclusion lists (which change over time)
The only easy is to run off a network share so that you have all users up-to-date.
A VMWare machine is no different than any other machine. It just restores quicker
looeee