How to Create, Manage, and Deploy Applications in Microsoft SCCM (EXE and MSI Installs)

[@melvaflores4898]

I have learned more in 45 minutes than I would have in a boot camp for SCCM

[@PatchMyPC]

Glad to hear you got value! Thanks for watching.

[@JS-tg7mw]

@@PatchMyPC my guy

[@a1dupre]

Shared this with my team who are new to SCCM. Your videos are great, thank you for making them.

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for the feedback! Glad it's helpful. - Justin

[@isokomusichub9852]

You are always my star.No one...I repeat...Nobody does it better than you for me. Thank you ever so much Justin.

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@justinhour]

Wow, fantastic! Even though this video is five years old, it's still amazing.

[@ferrispd]

Amazing! Thanks for this excellent video. Very clear, easy to see, and perfect pace.

[@cheshc00]

Thankyou very much. Finally someone who can speak faster than my nan.

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching.

[@shyamshivrajbiradar1171]

I will simply say Thank you so much. Bcoz it is very very helpful video for the beginners.. I will go through all of your videos to learn complete SCCM... Thank you so much once again.

[@davidsonabdn]

Excellent video. I work on the service desk and have worked with installing apps via sccm/ad groups etc, wanted to know a bit more in depth and this video explained it very simply. Thanks

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@mbarna36]

Great video! Thank you for taking the time to explain everything clearly.

[@amarshaurya9878]

Hi Justin you have created such a awesome video ......Excellent keep it up!

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks!

[@amarshaurya9878]

@@PatchMyPC The way you have explained it was like production environment and not lab .....each & everything you explained in proper way .......I extremely happy ...

[@researchmethods9153]

Your videos are heaven-sent. Thanks a billion! ☺

[@PatchMyPC]

Glad they are helpful!

[@11abrar]

Impressive clear explanation and good speed. Keep up the good work

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks a lot!

[@WNasiri]

very helpful for my projet so what i was looking for thanks a lot for uploading this video

[@definetelymaybe]

Very clear and easy to follow. Excellent job....

[@PatchMyPC]

Glad you liked it!

[@nicolael-far3349]

All your videos are well done and understandable

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching!

[@petergentile8974]

This is amazing! Thank you, learned so much

[@matgod2004]

Suppose I have an application "A" deployed during an OSD Task Sequence, I then create new version "B" of that application and configure it to supersede A, should I edit the Task Sequence? Will it install the old one by default?

[@PatchMyPC]

I believe it should install the new version

[@amarshaurya9878]

Great ! That's awesome and excellent video you made and very nicely you explain ....your hard work clearly showing in this video ....keep it up!

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching!

[@nickknight1488]

Thanks, this is top notch training content and I'll be sharing this with my team

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching

[@techguy1678]

Very helpful and easy to follow! Thank you for taking the time to educate us all.

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching.

[@techguy1678]

@@PatchMyPC I'm wanting to learn SCCM on my own. What pre reqs would you suggest I complete prior to this? I've been doing Dekstop Support for about 3 years now and we do use SCCM in our environment. Do I need to know PowerShell for using SCCM?

[@PatchMyPC]

@@techguy1678 Check out video 1, you would want to know basics of AD and DNS to get started with SCCM

[@techguy1678]

@@PatchMyPC thank you, will do. As for AD, I'm comfortable with security groups and OU's. There's a lot more to it though, I'm sure.

[@sergeolenek7414]

Once again, great video. Thank you

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks again!

[@alexhill9423]

Where did you get the metadata for 7Zip for and what program did you use to open it?

[@PatchMyPC]

What do metadata are you referring to?

[@jdpainson]

Thank you so much ! Amazing and super helpful video !

[@mohdsharjil5263]

Nice session. But one question if I delete the content from ccmcache for any application, how can I re-download the same content back again in ccmcache ?

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching.

[@abdelazizaqel]

How we can deploy exe with answer file like write URL or port any parameters during installation

[@PatchMyPC]

I'm sure you could set something like this up.

[@natetarkington9183]

Good stuff man! All your videos are well done and very informative!

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for the feedback

[@RodS_44]

Hi Justin. First of all, thanks for this other amazing video. I learn A LOT from you. I have a few questions:1- On your example of the dependencies, it shouldn´t be the opposite (flash being installed if the system detects Chrome)? 2 - What´s the difference between "Install for System" and "Install for user"? 3- On the "Content" tab, when should we use the options "Persist content...", "Allow clients to use distribution points..." and "Deployment options:" ? 4- On the "Programs" tab, how should we use the "Installation start in", "Uninstall start in" and the "Repair start in" options? 5- All the applications that are installed on the clients, are downloaded locally before the installation right? How can we clean the client local cache, is there an automatic task in SCCM to do that? Is it possible to install de applications pointing to the DP without copying the files? Thank you one more time.

[@PatchMyPC]

1: in my case I usually deploy chrome, so it made sense to have flash install when chrome does. 2 runs the installer under SYSTEM context vs per-user. if you don't want the content to be cleared in the event the cache is full and more applications need to install. 4. if you want to run a local like say in like c:\windows usually not done with applications. 5: Yes, and when space is needed for other installs.

[@sameerapathirana1406]

Sir i have small question .Could u please tell me different of application deployment vs application packaging in Sccm

[@PatchMyPC]

Packaging would be the process of creating an application e.g. (detection methods, command lines, getting content). Deployment would be choosing what collections you are targeting.

[@tonyg460]

Great video I am learning sccm at my job now.

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@christophbaumann1943]

Requires some previous settings otherwise not all does work. I don't have a Distribution Point Group and also dit not import my AD users. Flashplayer for the demo is end of life also.

[@PatchMyPC]

Sorry for the delay, are you all set here?

[@rakeshyadav-iq1lp]

Thank You So Much for hard work and very helpful video!!!

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching!

[@llNATEDOGGll]

How about creating multiple deployment types? IE. Installing an application (msi or exe) then adding in a second step that either does a file copy or runs a script to apply a license file.

[@PatchMyPC]

Certainly, a scenario you could do. I don't cover that in-dept in this guide.

[@androver]

Which access are required to create and deploy applications?

[@PatchMyPC]

Application manager

[@androver]

@@PatchMyPC thanks for the reply

[@stevzor]

Looking at diving into the SCCM stuff on my VMs, this was a great guide for app deployment, thanks! Don't know if you have done this already but a full guide on installing SCCM along with all the pre-reqs etc with your education style would be great! also love the fact you explain what each option is instead of just saying "yeh tick this, this and this" which too many people seem to do these days and you don't actually learn much. So thanks!

[@PatchMyPC]

There's one on our channel for this

[@stevzor]

@@PatchMyPC Found it, thanks! Your videos are extremely easy to understand and in my opinion videos are the best way to learn and actually absorb everything, for me anyway!

[@insights7292]

Hi Justin, I've little or no knowledge on sccm. we do have sccm in the job, and task given to me is to deploy one app via sccm. can you pls tell me where to start with ? is this video good enough for beginner to complete the task ? thanks

[@PatchMyPC]

Start with an app covered in this video?

[@sakharampatil3458]

Justin you are awesome👍🏻...!!!!Please add some more videos.

[@PatchMyPC]

Should have some soon

[@Hollywood-xb7xm]

Your video are just fantastic, very clean and to the point. One question, in the Google Chrome deployment, you made Flash Player for Chrome a dependency. I was thinking it was reversed, that is, in the Flash Player for Chrome deployment, Google Chrome would be a dependency. What am I missing?? Thanks

[@PatchMyPC]

That may be a better option for this scenario

[@travellermind6980]

Perfectly Described, Thumps Up

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching

[@khush1980]

Hi Jason, I am trying to run a PS script to install an MSI as it has some logics e.g. copy additional directories that will be required etc. The installer (PS Script ) works if ran manually. But if deployed as a required doesn't. I have the same with a batch file that fails as required. I'll check appenforce.log file again but wasn't able to figure out. The Install status says installed in SC.

[@PatchMyPC]

I don't think I could help with something this custom without details.

[@jamilacortes1055]

This is an AMAZING VIDEO. Will be watching the rest of your collection. AM a Junior desktop engineer and am having to learn on spot super fast. I have a question.. where and how do you get the Metadata information in your Notepad++ ? Look extremely helpful

[@PatchMyPC]

Hey Jamie, that's for watching. When you say Metadata information, are you specifically talking about things like silent command lines and detection rules?

[@ashwathag549]

Its showing valid unc file path,pls tell how to resolve

[@PatchMyPC]

I don't understand the question. Can you clarify?

[@chaitanyakiranh]

Awesome explanation and in depth....do u have any training sites for sccm and intune? Love to join them...thanks for the content.

[@PatchMyPC]

intune.training is great for Intune

[@surfblades]

Amazing tutorial thank you! By the way, was some one mowing the lawns while you were recording? hahahahahahahaaa

[@madarugariakbarbasha2230]

Please guide me how to rectify the error of " one or more predeployment tasks failed'' in wsus installation

[@PatchMyPC]

This is to generic of an error to help. Would need the log in the temp dir.

[@roberthill9383]

Hello Jason, I hope you can answer my question. I am trying to deploy 64 bit chromesetup.exe. From a test computer I find that Chrome creates keys in the wow6432Node. And also copies files to the C:\program Files (x86) folder. My question is concerning detection rules for 64bit chrome is it correct to remove the wow6432node key from the key like you did in the video and also check This registry key is associate with a 32-bit applicaiton on a 64bit system. What would be the correct thing to do here?

[@PatchMyPC]

that should work well, yeah.

[@tsecommerce]

Thanks man, Impressive video, all clear, very useful for me

[@PatchMyPC]

Glad to hear it!

[@TheMunzie]

Thank you I look forward to your videos It’s a huge help ...

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching!

[@shaiq_cihan]

Hi, what should be the permissions of the Sources share folder?

[@cptawesome4136]

How is it possible to roll out universal apps (including those from the Google Store) via SCCM?

[@PatchMyPC]

Intune would likely be the best option

[@cptawesome4136]

@@PatchMyPC we are still working on prem so it exist no other solution?

[@testlan7765]

Awesome video. Learn alot

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching!

[@rockyballs7768]

Awesome video - thank you !

[@PatchMyPC]

Your welcome!

[@chiromorilla7448]

Where can we get the meta data?

[@PatchMyPC]

What metadata?

[@TheDrjay10]

This was very simple

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching.

[@alecbidochka9322]

Hey Justin, I followed your first two videos successfully and have SCCM up and running. I just had one question. I have SCCM running on a dedicated box with 16gb of ram (SQL and all. Clients are on VMs on a separate box). Should I lower the min RAM from 8 to say 4 for SQL? I say this bc I noticed RAM usage is at 75% with the minimum 8 right now being allocated. Thanks!

[@PatchMyPC]

In a lab with only a few clients, I would say that's fine to make the ram as minimum as possible while still having it usable.

[@pa1089]

Hello Justin. Thank you for the video. Just want to check what should be the permissions for the source folder where the applications are saved? Thank you

[@PatchMyPC]

The computer account of the site server needs full control

[@Mant1kor]

Big thanks! How to correct use application supersedence with MDT UDI as OSD Frontend (application selection)? Every time update UDI applications menu?

[@PatchMyPC]

I'm not sure if the upi wizard will actually show supersede

[@tony6626]

Great video Justin. 1 question, MDT task sequences can be used to pull apps from a machine (connecting to the deployment share from the workstation), is there are similar approach via SCCM to connect to a task sequence to obtain applications or is the Software Centre the only way to get apps from SCCM?

[@PatchMyPC]

Yeah, you can deploy apps in a TS via SCCM no problem

[@tony6626]

@@PatchMyPC Thanks for the response. Do you have a video that shows this process and is it similar to MDT where you can boot into the WinPE via Litetouch within the OS?

[@Happy_Soul_Preeti]

Awesome video, it is really helpful.

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching

[@kylebocanegra5948]

Whats the best way to update the applications?

[@PatchMyPC]

We have a solution for that :) patchmypc.com/third-party-patch-management-sccm-scup-catalog

[@JohnMatthew1]

great video, thank u

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching.

[@amb7247]

What's interesting about this is I did this with an Plantronics HUB EXE. Except the uninstall string in the registry pointed to an MSIEXEC /X (MSI Product ID)). Also the registry was under the product ID and was located in the normal SYSTEM\MICROSOFT in registry instead of SYSTEM\WOW6432Node\Microsoft. But the program was installed under Program Files (x86). I pretty much followed the same and found the silent install string but used MSIEXEC /X {product code}. This is handy since I can now control versions and published dates as well as quickly modify the app entry but also the paramaters when deploying an EXE. Not sure if anyone did the same but even though this involves a small amount of more work, I think it better than packages and the way it can be used to detect if you have the latest version installed.

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for sharing!

[@kurtdegreeff6447]

Thanks for this great video. Could you please advice on next 2 questions: 1. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to deploy clustered applications like SQL to 2 server nodes? 2. If an application installer needs to continue after reboot, can this only be handled by a tasksequence or can dependencies also used for that? Many thanks

[@PatchMyPC]

1. You would just need to figure out the silent command lines you need to deploy the software. 2. Yeah, you could use a TS for complex scenarios.

[@JackyTran]

Love all your videos, I point all my customers to your channel :) Can you cover Configuration Items and Baselines? I've always had trouble with those. Thank you for all your hard work!

[@PatchMyPC]

That's a topic on the list.

[@EmilNaydenov]

Great job on the content!

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks!

[@buckpowell3155]

Can anyone define the purpose of Group id in relation to software in SCCM?

[@PatchMyPC]

In what part of the video?

[@rusirulakshithaphotography]

Hi, Your steps are very clean can learn for everyone. Thank you very much for the Video. Can you try to create forhow deploy day to day using applications via SCCM?

[@PatchMyPC]

MSI's are all pretty standard, For EXE's, I usually just google silent install to get you all the info needed. A little sales pitch :), you could also use our product to automate the application creation if you want to save time: patchmypc.com/third-party-patch-management-sccm-scup-catalog#base-installations

[@Dreigo42]

Your viedos are wonderful as always. On a similar thread to this topic, would you be able to do a video on repackaging software? Say from an EXE to a MSI?

[@PatchMyPC]

I'm not a big fan of repackaging EXE installers when they offer silent install commands which almost all do these days.

[@HarshaBolar]

under application catalog > Selected language> On what logic does it work- how does it detect the language when deployed to Device( is it based on Image Language?

[@PatchMyPC]

Under the software center tab of the app.

[@razen4758]

I know sccm :) beautiful work

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching!

[@amb7247]

one suggestion. Have you done a video about how to roll out additional apps that work within SCCM. I was curious about how that process goes. I think what I mean is, apps that give SCCM additional features or capabilities.

[@PatchMyPC]

Not sure I follow? additional apps?

[@Mind__Ease]

Thank you for this. It is fantastic.

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@wojtas710]

Cool video. Thanks. Coul you do some video aboit software licencing monitored in sccm ?

[@PatchMyPC]

I will keep that in mind for future videos.

[@machaggis]

Good show, thanks!

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks!

[@giav01]

Hey Justin, great video, I'd like to ask one question. On the deployment wizard under deployment settings, if I choose the "Automatic upgrade any superseded.." option and in order for this to work I have to previously fill the supersedence tab under the application properties windows correct? I mean if I haven't put anything in the supersedence tab and still choose this option it will not work automatically if there is a newer application in SCCM. Am I correct?

[@PatchMyPC]

If I understand the question, yes, you would need to set the supersedence relationship before it would update any previous app installs.

[@DanSajdowitz]

I watched your first two videos in this series and they were extremely helpful in getting SCCM up and running. Deploying an app was next on my checklist of things we wanted to test, so I skipped ahead to this video. Apparently, I missed the part where you must talk about setting up a directory structure and shares for the app sources like you show @ 2:10 in this video. Is that covered in another video?

[@PatchMyPC]

It's just a network share with the app installers. I didn't record anything for that but should be pretty easy to get going.

[@krishnareddyk4450]

Thanks very much...nice information ... please provide the real time trouble shooting in SD and patching

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks

[@KristoferBeck]

What if you wanted to supercede an application that wasn't deployed first using SCCM? For example deploying Adobe DC to replace Adobe Reader XI, would you create entries for both versions even though you aren't redeploying XI?

[@PatchMyPC]

Would supersede and even be required in this scenario? Usually, newer installers will automatically remove previous versions natively through the install process.

[@KristoferBeck]

@@PatchMyPC I was hoping to make things uninstall and install silently

[@PatchMyPC]

@@KristoferBeck Supercedence wouldn't be involved in a silent install. I would start by just creating an app the the newer Adobe Reader and test the upgrade

[@KristoferBeck]

@@PatchMyPC With any application added to the software library, isn't a hidden option allowed with switches added to the installer location for silent?

[@PatchMyPC]

@@KristoferBeck you will need to find the silent install command for reader.

[@Ammyamer]

thanks for the video , a naïve question in what scenarios is exe or msi is used , they both provide the same results ?

[@PatchMyPC]

It really just depends on the vendor, and how they release it.

[@Ammyamer]

Patch My PC thanks , so if we have the msi and exe both from the vendor , creating a package with msi would also do the same job right ?

[@PatchMyPC]

@@Ammyamer you mean an application? Yes msi is usually easy as well

[@ZayScott]

Hi Justin, love the videos. How would I deploy an application to a collection immediately (not to the Software center) or needing any manual triggering from the client machine?. Also, for custom task sequences, how are they triggered from the client? I know for OSD, they are triggered via pxe boot. Thanks.

[@PatchMyPC]

For the application you could use - www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/real-time-application-installation-for-devices/

[@ZayScott]

@@PatchMyPC Thanks, ironically had looked at that site, but not sure. Unless I am missing something, it is not happening "immediately" as I am expecting it to, especially in such a small lab environment. I will give it a try again. Thanks again.

[@Trilliards]

I'm looking for the best practice to upgrade apps like Flash. Do you have anything like this ? To uninstall and install the upgrade. Ive never quite worked out the uninstall string within the app settings and how this is applied

[@PatchMyPC]

:), well I do own a company that specifically does third-party patching patchmypc.com/third-party-patch-management-sccm-scup-catalog. If you want to do it yourself, you would need to just test the new installers and see how they upgrade.

[@mcastro05]

Hi Justin, really appreciate all the video tutorials you are sharing. I've learned so much watching your videos so thank you. Hope you can explain why I get a successful application install on a device however Software Center status says "installing". Thank you in advance. The log provides these messages: Prepared command line: "C:\WINDOWS\ccmcache\y\Sql silent install.bat" AppEnforce 4/7/2021 10:07:35 AM 7776 (0x1E60) Post install behavior is BasedOnExitCode AppEnforce 4/7/2021 10:07:35 AM 7776 (0x1E60) Waiting for process 10520 to finish. Timeout = 120 minutes. AppEnforce 4/7/2021 10:07:35 AM 7776 (0x1E60)

[@PatchMyPC]

The cmd script never fished

[@mcastro05]

@@PatchMyPC MsiExec.exe /i "\\Source\Applications\iNovah\Prereq for inovah app server\SqlLocalDB.msi" IACCEPTSQLLOCALDBLICENSETERMS="YES" /qn Above is the script, anything that I missed to causes the script not to run completely? Thank you again for your help.

[@JawadTaherpoor]

Good Job

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks for watching

[@Groosome128]

41:30 7-Zip 18.06 x86 superseding 18.06 x86 but I get the point ;)

[@PatchMyPC]

:)

[@LarsSchretlen]

Hey Justin, Thanks a bunch for sharing. Can you please cover how to Capture a Reference Machine and how to build one. i've akways have trouble with this Thanks.

[@PatchMyPC]

Might do this topic soon. Build and capture seems to be less common for Windows 10 than previous builds of Windows.

[@JessieS]

Can you cover phased deployment on your next video?

[@PatchMyPC]

Will keep that one in mind for a future topic!

[@sasmitamishra2248]

Thankyou so much..

[@PatchMyPC]

You're welcome!

[@Doc-Lino]

and if I wanted to install a certificate (Test_Root.cer) ?

[@PatchMyPC]

You can use certutil to install certs.

[@anonymousgamerscorner4167]

VERY NICE!

[@PatchMyPC]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ashwing2927]

Thanks a lot.

[@PatchMyPC]

You're welcome!

[@kshitijjgulati]

Hey Justin, Thanks a bunch for sharing your knowledge!! Can you please cover MSIX, Global Conditions and Phased Deployments?

[@PatchMyPC]

Possibly MSIX in the future. Global Conditions are essential just requirements you can reuse.

[@SivaIyyappan]

very helpful video

[@PatchMyPC]

Thanks

[@juanrebella2589]

Thanks!

[@mirfster7425]

Very good and informative video. Would highly recommend this for anyone just getting started or even as a refresher for those already familiar. Only hiccup I noticed was at kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWXMqqynlLqfeqM where you superseded the x86 version of 7-Zip with the same version of 7-Zip (18.06 > 18.06) instead of the newer version (18.06 > 19.00). ;)

[@PatchMyPC]

Nice catch

[@JessieS]

Can you cover phased deployment on your next video?

[@PatchMyPC]

Will keep that in mind!