With Directory Install bundle action it possible to package whole & big folders into the ZENworks content repository to be able to distribute the contents of the folder to the end points.
There is the option to package the content of such as folder as single content item instead of storing each single contained file as separate content item intp the content repository. This can speed-up the content distribution quite a lot.
But it has been noticed that once such a single content item containing some 100 MBs has been downloaded to the end point, it can take multiple minutes to have the content actually extract, very much delaying bundle distribution and if distributed at bundle launch/install also bundle execution.
Currently packaging such content into a single item always also encrypts it also based on AES encryption.
To improve bundle performance related to such big single content items, it is desirable to provide in option to package without encryption.
One good example is installation of Microsoft Office. Good practice for Office install is to distribute the install source folder to the end points and trigger Office setup from the local install folder. The Office install folder can easily contain more then 500 MB and bundle execution can be delayed by 5 or more minutes by extracting and unencrypting the Install Directory action content.
Without encryption there should be much less effort to extract the content.
by: Ingo E. | over a year ago | Application Mgmt
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Hi Ingo,
How about using the following option which was introduced to address such issues.
[] Do not compress or encrypt uploaded content
You need to select this while uploading the content. This option has proved to have good performance improvement in terms of content processing in-case of huge contents.
That option is not available when packaging single content in 11.3.x. It is getting greyed out since we probably always combine packing & encryption but don't have packaging without encryption. This is why I entered this idea.
There should be a "Store Only" Option when selecting Single-Piece of Content.
The amount of time to extract a ZIP that has been "Encrypted" using "Store" only versus a higher compression level can be noticeable, depending upon the processing power for the device doing the decompression as well as the tools used to decompress.