Chris Nackers

ConfigMgr / SCCM

ConfigMgr 2012 Application Deployment By Example: User EXE Deployment

2012-08-09

From the archive (2012). Written for the tools of the time, so some details may be out of date.

Jason Sandys has a nice walkthrough on using the new Application Model in ConfigMgr 2012 for deployment of an EXE to a user, along with using some great examples for targeting.

Read the full post here.

Scenario: Deploy an application using the new application deployment capabilities of ConfigMgr 2012.

Criteria:

  • Native install using EXE installer (instead of an MSI based installer)
  • Deploy to all users in a specific AD security group
  • Support uninstallation

The first nuance to the criteria is that we are deploying the application to users. For this to fully work properly, the application and application installer must support per-user installations. This is often not the case for EXE installers, but many do now support this. Without per-user installation support, the application will be available to every user on the system instead of just the user(s) we are deploying to. This may be acceptable, but is not the intent of this example. Accordingly, I have chosen FileZilla which does come in an EXE installer and does support per-user installation.