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Create Packaging VM 🛠️

A PowerShell based provisioning script designed to create a clean-room Virtual Machine specifically for enterprise application packaging.

⚠️ Risk Level: HIGH > This is a highly destructive script designed strictly for fresh, clean-room Virtual machine preparation. It will remove software dependencies, permanently disable Windows Update, and purge existing device management clients (SCCM). Do not execute this on a production system.

🚀 Key Features

  • Environment Cleanup: Automated removal of pre-existing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables (both x86 and x64), disabling of Windows Update services (wuauserv, bits, dosvc, etc.), and cleanup of system caches ( e.g. Temp, Prefetch, Logs).
  • Client Management Removal: Forcefully removes Configuration Manager/SCCM/MECM client (ccmsetup.exe).
  • Tools: Uses Windows Package Manager (winget) to silently deploy Master Packager and Visual Studio Code with PowerShell Extension
  • MSI Editors: Installs legacy MSI editors (Orca and instead)
  • SYSTEM Context: Automatically populates a local C:\Tools utilities directory with core Sysinternals tools (suppressing EULAs via the registry) creates custom Start Menu entries to launch decoupled CMD or PowerShell CLI windows under the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account.
  • Workspace : Automatically generates standard local packaging folder structures (C:\Working, C:\Installers), forces the EnableLinkedConnections registry fix to ensure mapped drive visibility across varying UAC contexts, maps deployment shares, and pins them to File Explorer Quick Access.

📋 Prerequisites

Before running the script, ensure you have staged your offline installation binaries inside your source folder structured as below:

  • C:\Packager Build\Tools\Orca\ (containing Orca-x86_en-us.msi)
  • C:\Packager Build\Tools\InstEd\ (containing the InstEd .msi package)
  • C:\Packager Build\Tools\ProcessExplorer\ (containing procexp64.exe)
  • C:\Packager Build\Tools\ProcessMonitor\ (containing procmon64.exe)
  • C:\Packager Build\Tools\PSTools\ (containing psexec64.exe)

🛠️ Configuration & Customization

Before executing or publishing, modify the configuration block near the top of the BuildVM.ps1 script to match your network infrastructure:

# --- CONFIGURATION (UPDATE THESE FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT) ---
$NetworkShareServer = "\\YOUR-SERVER-NAME"
$VendorShare        = "$NetworkShareServer\ShareName\_VENDOR"
$PackagesShare      = "$NetworkShareServer\ShareName\Packages"
$VendorMediaShare   = "$NetworkShareServer\ShareName\VendorMedia"
$QuickAccessPaths   = @("$NetworkShareServer\ShareName\Packages", "$NetworkShareServer\ShareName\VendorMedia")