Some people tend to get confused about the option “allow users to run this program independently of assignments”.
Let me try and help you out…
If you choose this option in the Interaction tab of an Advertisement, the installation becomes optional. That is the user can do the installation when he chooses to by going to the Run Advertised Programs tab in the Control Panel.
Furthermore if you did not enable the “suppress program notifications” he/she will also recieve a balloon popup for this advertisement (but only once…)
If you combine the setting “allow users to run this program independently of assignments” together with a mandatory assignment you will have an advertisement that is both optional and automatic.
So which ever action is ran first will do the installation.
I thought it might be useful to have a separate collection for desktop and laptop clients.
There are off course multiple ways how this can be achieved:
- -create an LDAP query to the respective OUs in AD
- -modify the mof file and edit battery information by changing the battery and setting the battery status info to true
- -use the System Enclosure class.
I have used the last example;
First of all I created a Collection called “All Desktops or compatible”, then used a query rule with the following properties:
- Type = List of Values
- Where = System Enclosure – Chassis Types
- operator= is in
- Values: 3, 4, 6, 15
the meaning of these values can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394474(VS.85).aspx
This collection is then limited to another collection that I created earlier: “All Approved Clients” (if you want, I can post the howto about this another time …)
Finished, now for the “All Laptops or compatible” collection, the query properties are almost the same except for the values off course;
values = 8, 9, 10, 14
again this collection has been limited to my other collection called “All Approved Clients”
Then, in my environment the difference between “all approved clients” minus the sum of “all desktops” and “all laptops” (which is in fact the value 1 = other) results in all virtual computers.
Next week we will host an event about Dynamic Desktop and Windows 7 deployment.
The second part of the event “How can you deploy Windows 7 in the enterprise? What are the different deployment tools around?” will include following topics:
Deployment technologies:
- Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
- Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
- System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
We will go in depth on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 SP2:
- Roadmap
- Console presentation
- Features
- Application deployment
- OSD
- Asset intelligence
- NAP
- Desired configuration
- Reporting
- App-V integration
If you’re attending this event and have remarks or comments, please let us know.