RE: OSD SDP to cache and install application

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Thanks Matthew. Quite obvious really.

However, how do get round the issue of installs failling as one MSI is
already being installed? Do you just wait for the SMS client to refresh again
and install the next app (which could take sometime), or is there way of
forcing applications to install directly after each other. (They cache fine,
just fail the install)

Thanks Tim



"Matthew Hudson" wrote:

We simply have a new computer collection that has newly imaged machines.
Once a machine pops in the SMS aggressivly installs all the apps, downloading
first of course. This includes office, adobe, hummingbird, and many other
apps. This is because we have only the basic image, no applications in the
image. so when the new version of something comes out we simply change the
adv. The easiest way is to create a collection that looks for the lack of
office or adobe on the machine and then it run "as soon as possible" Of
course this all depends on how fast you run the inventories and machine
policy refresh.

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"Tim Quigley" wrote:

We are currently investigating the use of OSD to deploy a workstation image.
Part of which, we want to install applications after the image has been
deployed using the "Software Distribution Program" in the "State Restore
Phase"

We have got this working fine; however, we want to be able to cache the
applications first. As the "download and install" option is on the
Advertisement which I gather is not used by the SDP, is there any way to
cache the application and install it as part of the OSD State Restore Phase.

Applications we are referring to include MS Office 2003, Adobe Reader,
ActiveSync, Citrix ICA etc. basically standard applications to go on a laptop
build.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Tim

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