Guidelines For Capturing The Standard Operating Environment; Soe Snapshot Configuration Settings - Symantec WISE PACKAGE STUDIO 8.0 - REFERENCE V1.0 Reference

Guidelines for Capturing the Standard Operating Environment

SOE Snapshot Configuration Settings

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Not available in Standard Edition.
Capture on a baseline machine that has the operating system and the applications
that are installed for every user or every user in a department. If you only want to
capture the operating system, capture on a clean machine.
See Setting Up a Clean Machine
Before running SOE Snapshot, exit all other applications.
Before starting the capture, consider increasing the size of the virtual memory page
file. Capturing a standard operating environment is a CPU-intensive process that
uses a lot of memory. See your operating system documentation for instructions.
The SOE Snapshot process might take a long time, depending on the amount of
software on the computer you are capturing.
If you open an .SOE file in Windows Installer Editor, some operations, such as
displaying the Registry page, might take longer than usual because of the large
amount of data.
Although you can edit an .SOE file in Windows Installer Editor, you cannot compile it
into an executable installation. The sole purpose of an .SOE file is to let you import
a snapshot of a baseline machine into the Software Manager database.
See also:
SOE Snapshot Configuration Settings
Capturing the Standard Operating Environment
Not available in Standard Edition.
SOE Snapshot uses exclusion settings from a configuration file created by SetupCapture
Configuration.
You can create a configuration file using SetupCapture Configuration prior to running
SOE Snapshot or you can specify settings when you run SOE Snapshot. You also can
select a different configuration file when you run SOE Snapshot.
See the following topics:
SetupCapture Configuration
Setting File and Folder Exclusions
Setting Registry Exclusions
Setting INI File Exclusions
By default, all directories on the computer are scanned, which produces the most
complete and accurate representation of the standard operating environment. SOE
Snapshot automatically ignores certain system files.
See Files and Registry Entries Ignored During Captures
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Capturing Applications
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