Deploy apps based on add/remove progs after OSD

[thadkew]

Ok.

I've got an OSD task sequence that my supervisor would like me to change to allow for the installation of software based on what the client PC had on prior to imaging.

in other words:

Mary Smith had Office 2007 with Visio and had Roxio, iTunes and Winzip.

However, the base image only puts Office 2007 standard and Winzip on the machine.

 

Is it possible for the task sequence to do a check against a report that shows what software is installed and then add that software? Keep in mind that this task sequence would be run as Mandatory and has no user interaction at all.

 

Please help.

 

Thanks!

[anyweb]

yes it's possible and here's one way of doing it(there are more, just up to you to get creative with how to accomplish it, but you could use registry settings and active directory checks to accomplish it)