Deploy and manage desktop and mobile applications - Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps - page 74

■ The software deployment process in Configuration Manager consists of determining
the users or devices to which you want to deploy the application and the way in which
you want to present the software.
■ The deployment can be deployed automatically (required), presented in Software Cen-
ter (available to devices), or deployed from Application Catalog (available to users).
■ You can deploy applications to either user collections or device collections.
■ A detection method is a procedure that enables the deployment process to determine
whether an application is present on a system.
■ Dependencies define one or more applications that must be installed before you run a
specific deployment type.
■ Global conditions define the attributes that Configuration Manager evaluates to deter-
mine whether a deployment type applies to a particular user or device.
■ Applications in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and newer versions
support using multiple deployment types in each application.
■ Deployment types run the installation software only on clients on which the installa-
tion meets all the specified criteria and, therefore, is likely to be successful.
■ When there are multiple deployment types and the target device or user could match
the requirements for more than one deployment type, application installation occurs
using the highest-priority deployment type.
■ User device affinity enables a user to associate a primary device with one or more
devices. Typically, a primary device is the device the user uses on a daily basis to per-
form her work.
■ You can configure a site to assign user device affinity automatically based on the usage
of the devices. You also can allow users to define their own primary devices through
Application Catalog.

Before a user or client can run a deployment, you must distribute the appropriate con-
tent to one or more distribution points.

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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.

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Objective review
Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of the information in this objective.
You can find the answers to these questions and explanations of why each answer choice is
correct or incorrect in the “Answers” section at the end of the chapter.
1. You want to make an application available to a user through Software Center, but the

application should be installed only if the user chooses to install it. Which of the fol-
lowing deployment settings would you configure when running the Deploy Software
Wizard? (Choose two. Each correct answer forms part of a complete solution.)