Best Practices for Working with Applications in Task Sequences

Although Microsoft recommends you deploy applications for users, applications could also be included within a task sequence during operating system deployment (OSD). Consider Microsoft Office: This is an application commonly deployed in a task sequence, because it not only provides application components such as Word and Excel to end users, but also serves as a type of middleware for many other applications.

Because of the way the task sequence runs, it is necessary to take extra precautions when installing applications in a task sequence, because

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