Application Lifecycle Management With System Center
Configuration Manager 2012
Packages
|
Application
|
Program (Command line for execution)
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Deployment
Types
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Advertisement
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Deployment
(state
based – deployment methods)
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Collection
Rules
for targeting devices
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Requirement
targeting
users and devices
|
No
User targeting
|
User
Device Affinity
|
Run
Advertised Program
|
Software
Center
|
No
web catalog
|
Software
Catalog
|
Limited
Content Management
|
Content
library
|
State-based Application Management
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Detection Method
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Enable systems to determine
whether or not an application is already present on a system
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Many system attributes play
into presence of an application on a system (registry, file versions, MSI
database, etc.)
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Detection is the key to any
state based software distribution system
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In ConfigMgr 2007
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Collection rule targeting and
status messages
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Fire and forget software
deployment model
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Run once or schedules
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Download and execution even if
the software is already installed
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In ConfigMgr 2012
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Rules determine applicability
of software
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Presence determines if any
action should take place on device
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Regular evaluation to check
for and enforce compliances
Requirement Rule in 2012
State-based Application Management
State-based Application Management
´ Properties of users and/or
devices that makes delivering software appropriate
´ Rules are per deployment types
´ Evaluated in real time on
clients
´ Evaluated before content is
downloaded
Dependencies
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Other deployment types that
must be present in order for the current application deployment type to be
installed
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Dependencies are modeled as
applications and can also be deployed independently
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Two dependency uses:
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Dependency not present, don’t install application
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Dependency not present, auto
install dependent applications
Content Distribution
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Distribution Point Groups
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Can be linked to Collection
for workflow optimization
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Automatic distribution of
content for distribution point added to the group
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Distribute Content Wizard
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Send multiple packages to
multiple distribution points or groups at once
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Detect Application
dependencies and add them to the distribution
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Select a task sequence and
distribute all related content
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Content Library
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One source for multiple
application, packages, update packages, etc.
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Only files required by the
distribution point are distributed over the network.
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Bandwidth Control
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Customize time and bandwidth
utilization on distribution points
Deployment
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Replaces Advertisement from
Configuration Manager 2007
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Created when an Application is
deployed to the Collection
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Due to applications being
state based, only deploy to a collection once
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Provides setting for
Pre-deployment feature when targeting user or user security group collections
User Device Affinity
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User Centric Software
Distribution
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Provides the ability to define
a relation between a user and a device
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Allows the admin to think “user first”, while also ensuring the
application not installed everywhere the user logs on
´
Configuration Manager 2012
supports
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Single primary user to primary
device
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Multiple primary device per
user
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Multiple primary users per
device
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The system allows both
administrator and user to define this relationship
Introducing Application Uninstall
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Uninstall is now part of
Application Model
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State-based application
deployment includes removal of software in addition to installation
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The App model defines an
uninstall method for each Deployment type of an Application.
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If a user or device is the
recipient of both an install and uninstall deployment, then the install wins
and the application is not removed
Application Supersedence
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The ability for the admin to
create a relationship and declare one application newer than another previous
application. Ultimately resulting in the newer application replacing the older
application.
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Supersedence relationship is
defined at both application level and deployment type.
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Relationship Manager shows
supersedence relationship
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