SCCM 2012 for Beginners to Intermediate : Application Deployment through SCCM 2012 Using Software catalog

APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT Using SCCM 2012

Applications in SCCM 2012 can be deployed in such a manner that users can navigate to the application catalog and install the applications.

This is a great new feature introduced in SCCM 2012.

All applications are recommended to be stored in shared network with proper directory structure. Each applications should reside with their respective folder according to the vendor name. The naming convention of the application is always appreciated in “VendorName ProductName Version”.

In SCCM Console the applications are recommended to be mounted inside the Application tab with respect to their vendor name.

We will be installing applications which are displayed in application catalog so that users can install application without administrative approval.

The maximum time to install the application is set to 120 minutes as default.

Mandatory applications can also deployed through application catalog, which can be integrated in Operating System Image on the process of Operating system deployment.

Below is the detailed process followed to deploy applications from SCCM 2012

1. Store the application in a network share folder from which SCCM server has proper access.For better understanding keep the application folder with proper directory structure.

2. Create folder according to vendor name, and then create application inside the folder

3. Right click the folder and select Create Application and provide the package storage path

4.Type the name of the application and select Install behavior to Install for system and click next in the summery window

5. When application wizard completes successfully click close to exit

6. Right click the application that you have created and click Properties. Select Distribute Content

7. Right Click the Application and Distribute the content to the distribution Point. Do not proceed until

you see the content status of the application as Green.

8. Click Next to complete the distribution.

9. In the monitoring tab navigate to Content status. The green color indicates that the content

has been distributed to distribution point successfully. You can also refer to distmgr.log for distribution status of the content.

10. Navigate the application under Application tab, Right click the application and click on Deploy.

Select the desired collection. This collection should be a user collection.

11. Check the Distribution point present.

12. Choose to Install the application and Purpose is set as Available.

13. Select User notifications as Display in Software Center and show all notifications. Click on Next

and Close

14. On the client computer, launch the Application catalog, Click Install to start the installation. The application is first downloaded and then installed. Wait for few minutes to complete the installation.