What can be removed from the 2012 source files to reduce the file size?

[kingad]

We need to deploy roughly 10 Autodesk 2012 verticals - ie A2K12, Civil 3D, ADT, MEP, MAP, 3DSMAX, Navisworks Simulate.

Some of the packges are pushing 6GB. We need to deploy them to both 32Bit XP and 64Bit Win7 / doubling the source file size for each package. As is, for use the source files of the packages we need to deploy are consuming 65GB of storage space, and we need to copy them to 100 servers on our network.

The question is, what can be done to reduce the deployment sizes down to no more than 2GB / per install?  Today can we remove a lot of fluff to get the source file size back to something manageabale / or can we overlap all the common files into a single set of source files? The sheer size of the installs are making it difficult to deploy the new versions because the cost to move the source files around must exceed the value of the new features.  Aside from the pacakge development, simply moving the files around is preventing us from deploying new versions.

[TravisNave]

If this is such a concern, you might start with your own infrustructure and rid yourself of 32-bit workstations altogether.  That would nearly cut your burden in half.  From there, if you could ensure that all the machines met the prerequisite conditions, you could also remove all of the prerequisite installer programs and modify the setup.ini files to ignore the checks for them.  That could potentially save you hundreds more.