Re: Upgrade applications with SMS 2003!



I'm not sure why you have to uninstall vs. just upgrading. Regardless, you
should be able to do an msiexec call to uninstall. Then create a package
using the new MSI. Push it out to your clients and call it a day. Of course,
you can use all the status messages and reports to give you an update of
where it's at in the process... :-)

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<richoo2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A59DF666-F916-45D5-B6EC-65EEA7916340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi everyone i have just started to work with SMS 2003, we are planning to
> deploy SMS 2003 to our production environment.
>
> We are using group policy to deploy all our applications today "350
> applications all msi packages" And we planning to replace this solution
> and
> deploy all our applications with SMS.
> Some of these applications update very frequency, with group policy this
> procedure working very well. We just publish the new package and chose the
> old one to be uninstalled, and the user just start the application on the
> shortcut and new application installs.
>
> I need to figure out how I can make this work with SMS without too much
> coding. Can anyone give me some tips how you are upgrading your
> applications.
>
> Regards
> R2000
>


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