The software deployment guys raised concerns with me on Friday about changed deployment/advertisement behaviour in CM12 that I was previously unaware of - the seemingly inability to change the target collection. Currently with our ConfigMgr 2007 site the methodology they use for software distribution is to initially create a collection with a couple of test systems and advertise the software to it, create a pilot collection and change the advertisement to then use this collection and finally create the production collection and change the advertisement to use this collection.
While I don't do much software deployment these days, I'm solely responsible for the monthly patching and I use a similar method of breaking the deployment up into multiple pilot and "phase" collections and changing the SUM deployment's target collection as I progress. Just curious how the deployment methodology is supposed to work in CM12 now that advertisements can't have the target collection modified. Interested to hear how others do it. Daniel.
