Hi all,

I explain what I want to do and the issue I'm having.

My customer don't have technical skills over SCCM and want that some of their 
employees will use it do the less possible actions on the console for deploying 
applications, as well as not creating single deployments for each of the 
applications they want to deploy to avoid human errors during the deployment.

To simplify the use of SCCM, I've create a static custom task sequence that 
just installs applications based on collection variables and each of this 
variables has the name of the application to be installed. The deployment of 
this task sequence is configured to always rerun every week because if a new 
application version must to be upgraded, they should just upload the new 
application in SCCM and change the value of the existing variable to point to 
the new application name.

The problem I'm facing is that if I modify the value of the collection variable 
for the application I want to upgrade to the new version, and the Task Sequence 
has already been executed on computers, the task sequence don't read properly 
the new variable value and always try to install the old version.

Example:

Collection A
APPS01

Adobe Acrobat 9.0

APPS02

Microsoft Office 2013


After some weeks, we upgrade the Acrobat version and we modify the right 
collection variable

Collection A
APPS01

Adobe Acrobat 10.0

APPS02

Microsoft Office 2013


The task sequence that uses these variables and that is executed recursively 
every week don't install the Adobe Acrobat 10 but always tries to install the 
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 (in fact it don't install Adobe Acrobat 9.0 because it's 
already installed and the detection method for the application itself works 
like a charm). It's like the Task Sequence can't read the new value for the 
variable or, that the task sequence when it's executed on the computer, reuses 
the variable value from a previous execution.

Someone knows if this is a product bug or it's the normal behavior of the 
interaction between recurring Task Sequences and Collection variables?

Thank you all!!
Vicenç

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