nitcoolish

Yes. I find that any msi/exe file which i can implement using a package, I can do the same with Applications. However some clear distinctions would be that applications provide better requirements handling (file system/registy/installer properties) than packages. Also, the deployment type need not be manually configured for an application as it intrinsicly defines the each type. Are there other differences? Licensing etc?

Hi, We have two "Configuration Baselines". ie a baseline of XP and a Baseline of Win7. There are typical software for each baseline and a certain set of about 15-20 softwares are fixed. Hence to deploy a new machine can we create a collection/group of software packages/applications by which i can deploy the whole baseline in one go? These software are not attached and are different to one another say Perforce, VS, Perl,XMLspy etc.