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Extracting and inspecting the installer files.

In essence the admin install is important for: It is recommended to read more about admin-installs since it is a useful concept, and I have written a post on stackoverflow: What is the purpose of administrative installation initiated using msiexec /a?. All of these are handled correctly by doing an admin install. As to compression, there are actually three different compression algorithms used for the cab files inside the MSI file format: MSZip, LZX, and Storing (uncompressed). Always prefer to run the actual admin install over any hacky zip extractions. Note that running an admin install versus using a zip tool to extract the files is very different! The latter will not adjust the media layout of the media table so that the package is set to use external source files - which is the correct way. This ensures that the source files are always available for any repair operations.

It is basically intended as a way to create a network installation point from which the install can be run on many target computers. This is called an administrative installation. MSI or Windows Installer has built-in support for this - the extraction of files from an MSI file. There is built-in MSI support for file extraction (admin install)