How to check during software deployment if software is already installed

[bvanbeekadm]

All,

 

 

We are using CM for a few months now and all is going pretty wel.

 

But today we have stumbled upon an issue.See, we are deploying Symantec AV to all our clients through sccm , with an advertisement targetted to all collections that contain our workstations.And this is working rather well.

 

Now, the issue is that when a computer has already the AV client installed, that when pc receives the advertisement, the software get's installed again.

 

What I am wondering now,is there a way to let Sccm check if a software is already installed?

 

Perhaps through a task sequence perhaps?

[YiannosG]

You can create a collection and enter a query to collect computers not having that

select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.Name not in (select distinct SMS_R_System.Name from SMS_R_System inner  join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where    SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName = "Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007") order by SMS_R_System.Name

 

Replace Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 with the full name of the application as shown on Add/Remove Programs

 

The advertise your AV to them

[bvanbeekadm]

That worked, thank you very much.