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As a sysadmin, I frequently deploy 7zip via .msi to all machines that I think might even have the slightest use to open archive files. It's not that the OS does
by jcpham2 3y ago
As a sysadmin, I frequently deploy 7zip via .msi to all machines that I think might even have the slightest use to open archive files. It's not that the OS doesn't support .zip it's that the OS ONLY support .zip out of the box and the OS .zip file manager is inadequate in many troubleshooting scenarios.
Sometimes you need to split archives
Sometimes you want to open a non-standard file type with something to unpack it (.xlsx/self extracting .exe)
Sometimes you've got Software Restriction Policies that prevent standard %temp% extraction installers from running and need to manually extract a package.
This is the short list