Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
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Application Catalog information, including localization information, keywords, and
user categories that help users search in the Application Catalog and user documenta-
tion.
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Relationship information between the application and other applications.
You will typically use applications to deploy software because of the advanced deployment
options and monitoring features that they provide. Put another way, applications are the
method you should use going forward, even though you might still need packages to support
the way you performed software deployment in the past. The exception to this generalization
is scripts. You are likely to use packages to deploy software when working with:
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Scripts that do not install any software on the computer, such as a script to restart a
number of services in a specific order. These scripts typically do not have any detection
methods that can determine their state.
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Scripts that will run only once. These scripts will be part of an operating system
deployment, and you do not need to monitor them continually.
There are other methods, such as Group Policy Preferences, that you can also use to run
scripts on computers, but packages remain the best way to run scripts on a computer if you
want to perform that task by using Configuration Manager.
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Using a package is the best way to accomplish the goal of running a script by using
Configuration Manager.
Application management uses the following Configuration Manager features:
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Requirements
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Global conditions
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Detection methods
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Supersedence
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Deployment action and purpose
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State-based deployment
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User device affinity
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Monitoring
These features are described in the following pages.
