I'm a big fan of using collection variables to modify the deployment of
software. In SCCM 2007 this was greatly enhanced by its ability to use
subcollections, which, now that they have been removed, has left me scrambling
for ways to create one deployment of software instead of 5 or 6 with the "new"
collection structures. The issue is that I have some software packages that I
would like to deploy once to a collection, but have variables determine which
application type to run. An example would be a script which adds certain
groups to the local admins group on each machine. Each script is an
application type, which adds a different group to the local admins for each
machine. Which deployment type gets run would be determined by a variable set
on that machine by virtue of its membership in a collection. I could deploy
the software to one collection which contains all machines, and the scripts
would run on the proper machine based on the variables. Is there any way to get
a deployment type to read a collection variable? I realize I can do this using
a TS and the old package type deployments, but I'm trying to create as few
software deployment TS's as possible, and I'd like to work within the confines
of the new Application type wherever possible
Thanks
John
