Reorganizing Applications and Bundles in MDT 2008

I took over our MDT 2008 administration awhile back and have always wanted to do some spring cleaning of the applications and bundles in the DeploymentToolkit and to create a new folder structure a way that makes more sense to me. I'm paranoid to do so however
since this is such a critical piece of our environment. Can someone tell me if it's safe to move applications and application bundles around within DeploymentToolkit? If an application is part of a bundle, moving it wont break the dependancy will it? Thanks
for the help!

Jus,
Your good to go. The bundles reference the applications using their GUID, so their location is irrelevant. Clean away. While your at it, use Micheal's script to sort the share. That does wonders for cleaning up!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2009/09/09/sorting-the-contents-of-an-mdt-2010-deployment-share.aspx
-BrianG (http://supportishere.com)

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