Consider the following factors when you configure the reference system:
The greater the volume of data in the reference system, the longer the duration to check for changes. You can exclude certain drives from the checking process.
The reference system itself causes modifications to the file system during the creation of products when it generates scripts.
To create a script, the DMS Generator searches for the changes in the system during a software installation. The DMS Generator does not remove the software after generating the script. Normally, uninstalling the software does not replace system DLLs. To maintain the consistency of the system as a reference system, restore these DLLs to its original versions so that an update of these DLLs can be detected during later script generator process.
To restore the system DLLs, create backups of the system files. To update protected system files, restore the system by using system images.
If partial changes are made to existing ASCII files during product packaging, then the changes are reproduced during the product installation on the target computer. Identify these files to the reference system so the reference system can treat them differently. Otherwise, the complete file and any modifications are added to the created version by default. As a consequence, the existing file of the same name on the target computer would be replaced, instead of the changes being copied.
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