Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 – 90 Sec delay in Task Sequences

If you are running application installs within your Task Sequence and you are running SP1 of Configuration Manager you will bump into a 90 second delay between every application. So if you have 200 applications in your task sequence the deployment will take allot of time. Microsoft is currently working on a fix for this until then you can get around it by using the RTM Client instead of the SP1 client binaries in your Apply Client – Task Sequence Step.