That article helps you prepare your site to install applications and understand the terminology that's used here. Make sure that the installation files for the CMPivot standalone app are in an accessible location on your network. On the Home tab, in the Create group, choose Create Application. On the General page of the Create Application Wizard , choose Automatically detect information about this application from installation files.
This action pre-populates some of the information in the wizard with information that's extracted from the installation. Then specify the following information:. Choose Next. On the Import Information page, you'll see some information about the app and any associated files that were imported to Configuration Manager. Once you're done, choose Next again. On the General Information page, you can supply further information about the application to help you sort and locate it in the Configuration Manager console.
The Installation program field lets you specify the full command line that will be used to install the application on PCs. You can edit this field to add your own properties. Some of the fields on this page of the wizard might have been filled in automatically when you imported the application installation files. On the Summary page, you can confirm your application settings and then complete the wizard. You've finished creating the app. To find it, in the Software Library workspace, expand Application Management , and then choose Applications.
For this example, you'll see:. Now that you've created an application, you can refine the application settings if you need to. To look at the application properties, select the app, and then, in the Home tab in the Properties group, choose Properties. In the CMPivot Properties dialog box, you'll see many items that you can configure to refine the behavior of the application. For more information about all the settings you can configure, see Create applications. For the purposes of this example, you'll just be changing some properties of the application's deployment type.
In the app properties window, switch to the Deployment Types tab. Requirements specify conditions that must be met before an application is installed on a device. You can choose from built-in requirements or you can create your own. In this example, you add a requirement that the application will only get installed on devices that are running Windows Select Add to open the Create Requirement window.
Specify the following information:. Select OK to close each property page that you opened. Then return to the Applications list in the Configuration Manager console. Requirements can help reduce the number of Configuration Manager collections you need. This location is a website address, or a network path and file name. Make sure that users have access to this location. Link text : Specify the text that appears in place of "Additional information" when user documentation is specified.
Privacy URL : Specify a website address to the privacy statement for the application. Localized description : Enter a description for this application in the selected language. Keywords : Enter a list of keywords in the selected language. These keywords help Software Center users search for the application. Icon : Select Browse to select an icon for this application. If you don't specify an icon, Configuration Manager uses a default icon.
Icons can have pixel dimensions of up to x On the Deployment Types page of the Create Application wizard, choose Add to create a new deployment type. For more information, see Create deployment types for the application. If you automatically detect application information , you may not need to finish some of the steps in this section. When you view the properties of an existing deployment type, the following sections correspond to tabs of the deployment type properties window:.
For information on the Install Behavior tab on the properties of a deployment type, see Check for running executable files. In the Applications node : In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Software Library workspace, expand Application Management , and select the Applications node. Select an application, and then select Create Deployment Type in the ribbon.
When creating an application : When you Manually specify application information in the Create Application wizard, select Add on the Deployment Types page. From application properties : Select an existing application in the Applications node and select Properties. Switch to the Deployment Types tab, and select Add. Then use one of the following procedures to automatically identify or manually specify deployment type information.
Select the application installation file Type to detect the deployment type information. Select Automatically identify information about this deployment type from installation files.
In the Location box, specify the application installation file that you want to use to detect the deployment type information. On the General Information page of the Create Deployment Type wizard, specify the following information:. Some of the deployment type information might already be present if it was read from the application installation files. Additionally, the displayed options might differ, depending on the deployment type that you're creating. Installation program : Specify the installation program and any properties that you require to install the deployment type.
Choose Next , and then continue to Deployment type Content options. On the General page of the Create Deployment Type wizard, in the Type drop-down list, choose the application installation file type for this deployment type.
Select Manually specify the deployment type information , and then select Next. Optionally specify Administrator comments , select the Languages for this deployment type, and then select Next. Continue to Deployment type Content options. When you view the properties of an existing deployment type, some of these options appear on the Content tab and some on the Programs tab.
Content location : Specify the location of the content for this deployment type, or select Browse to choose the deployment type content folder. The System account of the site server computer must have permissions to the specified content location.
Persist content in the client cache : The Configuration Manager client indefinitely keeps in its cache the deployment type content. The client persists the content even if the app is already installed. This option is useful with some deployments, like Windows Installer—based software.
Windows Installer needs a local copy of the source content for applying updates. This option reduces the available cache space. If you select this option, it might cause a large deployment to fail at a later point if the cache doesn't have sufficient available space. This option persists the specific version of content that the client installs. If you update the content for this app, the client doesn't automatically cache this content again.
Once an action happens that requires the new content, the client downloads the new content version. Installation program : Specify the name of the installation program and any required installation parameters. Uninstall program : Optionally specify the name of the uninstall program and any required parameters. Repair program : For Windows Installer and Script Installer deployment types, optionally specify the name of the repair program and any required parameters.
Run installation and uninstall program as bit process on bit clients : Use the bit file and registry locations on Windows-based computers to run the installation program for the deployment type.
When you view the properties of a deployment type, the following options appear only on the Content tab:. Same as install content : If the install and uninstall content are the same, select this option. This option is the default. No uninstall content : If your application doesn't need content for uninstall, select this option. Different from install content : If the uninstall content is different from the install content, select this option.
Allow clients to use distribution points from the default site boundary group : Specify if clients should download and install the software from a distribution point in the site default boundary group when the content isn't available from a distribution point in the current or neighbor boundary groups. Deployment options : Specify if clients should download the application when they use a distribution point from a neighbor or the default site boundary groups. Windows BranchCache is always enabled on clients.
If the distribution point supports BranchCache, clients use it. For more information, see BranchCache. For more information on the task sequence deployment type, see Task sequence deployment type. Install task sequence : Select a task sequence that runs the installation process for this app. Uninstall task sequence optional : Select a task sequence that removes this app. If your task sequence doesn't appear in the list, double-check that it doesn't include any OS deployment or OS upgrade steps.
Also confirm that it isn't marked as a high-impact task sequence. For more information, review the prerequisites for the Task sequence deployment type.
This procedure sets up a detection method that indicates the presence of the deployment type. In other words, whether the Windows device already has the application installed.
Use one of the two following methods to create a detection method:. On the Detection Method page, the option to Configure rules to detect the presence of this deployment type is selected by default.
Select Add Clause. In the Detection Rule dialog box, select a Setting type to detect the presence of the deployment type:. File System : Detect whether a specified file or folder exists on a device. This detection indicates that the application is installed. Specify the following additional details:.
Path Required : Enter or browse to the local path on the device that includes the file or folder. You can't specify a shared network path. If you select Browse , browse the local file system or connect to a representative client to browse.
File or folder name Required : Specify the specific file or folder name to detect in the above path. If the client detects this file or folder on the device, it considers the application as installed on the device. This file or folder is associated with a bit application on bit systems : The client first checks bit file locations for the specified file or folder. If the file or folder isn't found, the client then searches bit locations.
Registry : Detect whether a specified registry key or registry value exists on a client device. Hive Required : Choose a registry hive from the drop-down list. Key Required : Specify the registry key to search in the above hive. Value Optional : Enter a specific value to detect in the above key. If you want the client to detect the Default value, enable the option to Use Default registry key value for detection. When you enter a value or enable this option, you're required to select a Data Type.
This registry key is associated with a bit application on bit systems : Select this option to first check bit registry locations for the specified registry key. If the registry key isn't found, the client searches bit locations.
Windows Installer : Detect whether a specified Windows Installer file exists on a client device. Specify the MSI Product code to detect on the client. If you select Browse , choose the MSI file from which to read the product code.
At the bottom of the Detection Rule window, specify whether the item must exist or satisfy a rule. For example, if you detect with a file, the following option is selected by default: The file system setting must exist on the target system to indicate presence of this application.
Select the other option to create a rule for detection based on file or folder properties. These rule criteria are different for each setting type. When you create more than one detection method for a deployment type, you can group clauses together to create more complex logic. Select two or more consecutive clauses, and then select Group.
You'll see the parentheses added to the associated columns, which show where the group starts and ends. Continue to the next section on using a custom script as a detection method. Or skip to the User Experience options for the deployment type. On the Detection Method page, select the Use a custom script to detect the presence of this deployment type box. Then select Edit. This option starts PowerShell without profiles. A PowerShell profile is a script that runs when PowerShell starts.
In the Script contents box, enter the script that you want to use, or paste in the contents of an existing script. Choose Open to browse to an existing saved script. Select Clear to remove the text in the Script contents field.
If necessary, enable the option to Run script as bit process on bit clients. Select OK to save the script and close the Script Editor dialog box. Configuration Manager checks the results from the script. If the script exits with a non-zero value, the script fails, and the application detection status is Unknown.
When writing a detection script, if you return a zero exit code but don't return output data in STDOUT , the application will not be detected as installed. For more information, see the following examples. Use the following tables to check whether an application is installed from the output from a script:. Example 1 : The script returns an exit code that's not zero.
This code indicates the script failed to run successfully. In this case, the application detection state is unknown. This result indicates the script failed to run successfully.
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