Deploy and manage desktop and mobile applications - Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps - page 73

Simulated deployment
A simulated deployment is a special deployment in which you can test the evaluation of the
requirements in the application's deployment types without distributing any files. You create
a simulated deployment by selecting your application and then clicking the Simulate Deploy-
ment button on the ribbon. When using simulated deployment, you do not specify a distribu-
tion point because target clients do not use content.
A simulated deployment is evaluated like any deployment, and the results are in the Moni-
toring workspace under the Deployments node along with all the other deployments. When
examining the status of the simulated deployment, you see the following results:
■ Success This includes targets when a deployment type for the application is installed
already, including the deployment type with which they comply.
■ Simulate Success This includes targets that comply with a deployment type in the
application, including the deployment type with which they comply.
■ Requirements Not Met This includes targets that do not comply with any deploy-
ment type in the application, including the deployment types with which they do not
comply.
■ Unknown This includes targets that have not yet reported results.
You create a simulated deployment the same way as any other deployment. Therefore, you
cannot create a regular deployment for the same application and collection until you delete
the simulated deployment.

Thought experiment
Application deployment at Contoso
Y ou want to deploy a new application to some of the computers in your organiza-
tion. A small number of computers in your organization don't have enough memory
to run the application, and you want to avoid deploying the application to these
computers. You also want to verify that the deployment you have configured will
reach all targeted computers. With this information in mind, answer the following
questions:

1. What can you do to ensure that the new application is deployed only to comput-
ers with enough RAM?

2. What should you do to verify that the deployment settings are correct?

Objective summary
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When creating an application, you can either allow the wizard to detect settings auto-
matically from the installation files or use the wizard to create the application
manually.