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Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By : Vangel Krstevski
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Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By: Vangel Krstevski

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering System Center Configuration Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating applications


This section will focus on the application creation process using the create application wizard. This wizard is a great approach to set up an application. However, keep in mind that several configuration options are only made available after you finish the wizard and create the application.

Creating a Windows Installer application

For the purpose of creating an application that uses Windows Installer, we will take the 7-Zip MSI file. Follow these steps to create a Windows Installer application:

  1. Start the Configuration Manager console and go to Software Library.

  2. Expand Application Management and right-click on the Application node.

  3. Select Create Application from the menu.

The wizard starts with the General page that has two options:

  • Automatically detect the application information

  • Manually define the information

If you want to create an application for 7-Zip and use the existing Windows Installer content, then you have to perform the following:

  1. Start the wizard and click on...