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Requirements and global conditions
Global conditions enable you to set conditions you can use to create requirements in a
deployment type to determine whether the deployment type is suitable for a particular user
or client device—for example, whether the computer is the user's primary device. Several
global conditions are already defined in Configuration Manager, and you can create more as
necessary.
A requirement is a global condition with an operator and a value that is associated with a
deployment type. Configuration Manager evaluates application requirements on a schedule
to determine whether the deployment type is applicable to the clients in a targeted
collection.
Detection methods
Detection methods enable you to define how Configuration Manager determines an applica-
tion's installation state. Detection methods can query many aspects of the client operating
system, including the file system and registry. For example, a detection method to determine
whether an application is installed would involve checking for a specific registry key and
value.
Supersedence
Supersedence enables you to configure a relationship between a new application and an
existing application that you have deployed. After you configure supersedence, all future
deployments and Application Catalog requests receive the new application.
Deployment action and purpose
When you deploy an application in Configuration Manager, you choose a deployment action
and a deployment purpose that define what the deployment should do. Together, the
deployment action and the deployment purpose represent your intent for the application.
The available deployment actions are:
Install This action specifies that the deployment will install the application.
Uninstall This action specifies that the deployment will uninstall the application.
The possible deployment purposes are:
Available If you deploy the application to a user, the user sees the published applica-
tion in Application Catalog. If you deploy the application to a device, the user sees it in
Software Center.
Required If you deploy the application to either a user or a device, the application is
deployed automatically according to the schedule you have configured. However, you
can allow a user to install the application before the deadline by using Software Center.
When you specify the user-targeted deployment purpose as available, you can specify
whether users need to request approval from an administrator before they can install the
 
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