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MTran-2950 asked ColinFord-6663 edited

What is the best way to auto deploy several applications as soon as a computer joins SCCM?

HI,

We have several standard applications that are installed on all user machines. I would like to automate the installation of those programs in SCCM so we won't have to do this manually for each machine. I would like to set up such that when a computer joins the network and receives the SCCM client, it starts getting those applications automatically.

What is the best way to achieve this?

Thank you much for your advice.

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MTran-2950 answered ColinFord-6663 edited

Thank you so much for all your responses! I am working on the task sequence and testing.


I don't know how to mark this thread as done.

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Hi MinaTran

After your testing come back and report your results so that others can benefit. Then, it is always good to mark the best answer above as the accepted Answer as this will close the thread and award points to the contributor.

-Colin

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yannara answered

By trying different tricks, like TS or distributing to top-level collection you might speed up this a bit, but you will also create a mess in your deployments and collection structure. If you do it in normal way, by using Collection / App, or All apps to Device Collection, it should be quick enough. Just wanted to point this, that I have seen different solutions and tricks to manage CM, and when a new guys comes onboard to manage CM, he is confused why the enviroment is not standard. The benefit of TS is, that you can also apply order of installations, and not picking apps randomly based on collection membership.

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SimonRenMSFT-3639 answered

Hi,

Hope everything goes well. May we know the current status of the question? If there is any other assistance we can provide, please feel free to let us know, we will do our best to help you.

Best regards,
Simon

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GaryBlok answered

You a task sequence boot strap. (provisionts) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/clients/deploy/about-client-installation-properties#provisionts

As the CM Client installs, it will launch the task sequence and... do whatever you have in the task sequence.

couple of posts that are worth the read: https://oofhours.com/2019/12/19/following-the-configmgr-task-sequence-bootstrap-process/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/configuration-manager-blog/task-sequence-bootstrapping-osd-video-tutorial-part-26/ba-p/2167562

We currently do this with our Servers, they are spun up via VMWare, and then the CM Client gets installed, and based on the variables created for the onboarding of the server, different apps, windows features, etc get installed and updated.

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MTran-2950 answered SimonRenMSFT-3639 commented

Hi,
Thank you so much for all of your replies! I am a "young" SCCM admin and our company has just deployed SCCM, so there is a lot for me to learn as I work in this. They can only teach you so much in those MS courses. I was thinking of TS but wasn't sure. Will do that.

Thank you so much!

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Look forward to hearing good news from you. If there is any other assistance we can provide, please feel free to let us know, we will do our best to help you.

Thanks and regards,
Simon

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SimonRenMSFT-3639 answered

Hi,

Thanks for posting in Microsoft MECM Q&A forum.

Agree with above replies. Please try to deploy the needed applications to the built-in collection All Systems or All Desktop and Server Clients to have a try. Also remember to cleck the Incremental updates on the collection option.

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Simon


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ColinFord-6663 answered

If you can't do this in the TS and need to filter to some collection that is not already there, base your collection membership rule on some property that is part of the client DDR or a status message so that way ConfigMgr won't need to wait for hardware inventory to complete. Also enable Incremental updates on the collection so that it populates the new devices every few minutes.

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Why aren't you doing this in your TS?

You can Deploy the application to the All Desktop and Servers collection and therefore as soon as the computer are added to the collection they will start the install, shortly after that.

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