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Application dependencies - Best practice?

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Ok so i am a total noob as it were to SCCM!

 

I am slowly but surely getting to grips with the produce but one thing i am struggling with is applications that are not MSI installs.

 

Specifically dependencies...

 

i have .net 4.0 and Windows Management Framework 3.0 that i want installing within my OS Deployment TS, i have created the OS deployment (works) and am now in the process of creating the applications to install.

 

i have managed to create a dependency for .net 4.0 (regkey) but am struggling to create one for WMF3.0 (which is an MSU file).

 

further to this i want to know how you would go about packaging other applications that are not MSI files and how you would figure out a dependency for the installation, at the moment i am painstakingly installing the app on a test server and monitoring the process (process monitor) looking for a regkey created that i can use as a dependency.

 

Surely there's a better way?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

J

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i have managed to create a dependency for .net 4.0 (regkey) but am struggling to create one for WMF3.0 (which is an MSU file).

 

Is it that you think you need to create a dependency in order to create an application??

 

Applications do not need you to create a dependency, the option is optional so to speak.

 

Also I see you are trying deploy WMF3.0 as part of your OSD??

 

Is this not the update that breaks SCCM management point and windows7 client communication!!

It was released approx a couple of months ago and wreaked havoc on many SCCM infrastructures!

 

http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/12/15/wmf3-0-hits-microsft-update-catalog-possible-issues-with-configmgr-2012/

 

Pay particular attention to the last paragraph!

 

Rocket Man

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First create a new global condition to query the updates through WMI

 

The KB Names without the leading "-" of course :unsure:

 

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As requirement chose the custom type and the new global condition.

 

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That's it

 

Edit: It's good enough to set the rule type to existential. No reason for double definition :)

 

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