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SCCM Available applications not detecting install

Any application I create in SCCM, if the deployment is set to available it does not detect if the software is already installed on a device. As a result users think that a new piece of software is available when it is already installed on their PC.

This is not the case if the deployment is set to required. If it is set to required it will move the application to "Installed" if it was installed prior.

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Hi @DanielKaliel-3171,

If the deployment of the application is set as available, once the Machine Policy retrieval cycle will be run (by default, every 30 minutes), the application will be discovered and showed in the software center.

And then if we click the tab of 'install', actually, the client is ready to download the application content from DP, AppDiscovery.log will check if the application already installed. we will see that if an application is deployed to a computer, which already has the application installed (as determined by the detection method), the installation files will never be downloaded to the computer. This is a nice consequence of the Application Model in ConfigMgr.

So if the deployment type is available, the detection will start once we click the tab of 'install'.

Here is related article we could refer to:
https://deploymentparts.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/how-to-track-an-installation-through-client-log-files/
Note: This is non-official Microsoft article just for your reference.



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