diff --git a/config/software/metasploit-framework.rb b/config/software/metasploit-framework.rb
index 438c2f5..a15c5f2 100644
--- a/config/software/metasploit-framework.rb
+++ b/config/software/metasploit-framework.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
 name "metasploit-framework"
+
+# Detect a local checkout of metasploit-framework at '../metasploit-framework' - i.e. for the scenario of:
+# - c:/temp/metasploit-omnibus
+# - c:/temp/metasploit-framework (A local checkout of framework to use during the build process)
+# but try and use 'C:/metasploit-framework' - as that's the metasploit-omnibus artifacts output directory
+def has_windows_metasploit_framework_repo?
+  windows? && File.exist?('../metasploit-framework') && File.expand_path(File.join(Dir.pwd, "..", "metasploit-framework")) != "c:/metasploit-framework"
+end
+
 if linux? && File.exist?("/metasploit-framework")
   # supply current version of metasploit-framework at root of filesystem
   source path: "/metasploit-framework"
-elsif windows? && File.exist?('../metasploit-framework')
+elsif has_windows_metasploit_framework_repo?
   # supply current version of metasploit-framework relative to the current directory
   source path: "../metasploit-framework"
 else
@@ -154,4 +163,12 @@
       end
     end
   end
+
+  # Workaround for a Windows bug with chef r7_9.0.23_custom that allows the `.git` folders through
+  # into the final build result, leading to the .exe being an extra 1gb in size
+  block do
+    self.project.exclusions.each do |exclusion|
+      Pathname(install_dir).glob(exclusion).each(&:rmtree)
+    end
+  end
 end