I personally do not use applications in my TS's and I know several others do not either because they don't seem to be as reliable as packages and programs. That being said I don't see any reason that an exe shouldn't work.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jones, Lyle Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 7:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] Installing Applications during reimage based on collection memberships Running Config Manager 2012 R2 SP1 I have been working on installing applications based on collection memberships when a system is reimaged during OSD task sequence. All is going smoothly but need some confirmation on one thing. All applications except three install as expected. The reimage task sequence finishes without error and when checking the smsts log file, none of the applications error out. Can someone confirm that .exe setup files fail when run in TS in this manner? I may be mistaken but I think I may have read that an install with setup.exe or a programname.exe will not work when installing this way. How it's set to run: Install Application sets which check for a collection variable = TRUE to tell whether the machine is in the collection and if it is, it will run the install based off of the base variable also set as a collection variable. Example of one that doesn't work: Basevariable in TS step is INSTACRO INSTACRO01 set as variable with value of "Adobe Acrobat" (name of application in Config Manager). Deployment Type consists of an install.cmd file which runs a Setup.exe All applications run from software center on any machine we have which is just a regular app deployment (non TS). Other applications have install.cmd which runs .msi file and they work fine. All applications are selected to run in task sequence and install for system or user. Any help would be appreciated. I can't find much as I don't have any errors to go by. I can't find where I read that this will not work for setup.exe and wanted to get some confirmation. Thanks, Lyle Jones ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer.
