7.3. Sequence Troubleshooting

Properly sequencing applications is both an art and a science. Unfortunately, we don't have unlimited room in this chapter to handle too many "interesting" sequencing scenarios.

To give you an idea of the range of problems, the following link takes you to an MSKB article listing nine solutions to sequencing Office 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931914.

This link takes you to a ten-page article showing you how to sequence Office 2007:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939796.

In short, it's not easy to get it all. It takes finesse and practice.

We're going to go over a few kinds of troubleshooting now, and then we have a special section for cracking open the .OSD file called "Troubleshooting Sequences by Modifying ...

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