I packaged and deployed thousands of applications via Config Manager and other tools. There should be no technical difference between a required an available application deployments. But there is.
I’ve seen 2 applications which are not installing with a required deployment. Both applications are using the silent install switches provided by the manufacturer. Those 2 applications are Maple and Vectorworks. 2 total different applications with one thing in common, they both use the “bitrock installer”.
So what are the symptoms?
Both application install just fine if we have an available application deployment. We can click the package in Software Center and both applications install fine, without errors.
As soon as we deploy those applications required (without any change to the deployment type), the application installation will start, but will hang during the extracting phase of the installer. The timeout set in de deployment options kicks in, this is clear in AppEnforce.log.
It doesn’t matter how we call the installer + switches (CMD, Poweshell or the EXE directly)
So what about the vendor installer logfile?
Well.... it just hangs on the unpacking process:
Maple 2020.2:
Unpacking C:\Program Files\Maple 2020\Python.X86_64_WINDOWS\Lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\include\third_party\eigen3\Eigen\Eigenvalues
Unpacking C:\Program Files\Mapl
Also Vectorworks just hangs while unpacking from the SCCM source. I don’t have the logfile.
The 2 different vendors of both installations can’t solve my problem.
There is nothing I can do at the SCCM or Client side to solve this.
We have to deploy required because we are in an educational environment.