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In System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM 2007) collections were used to determine any installation prerequisites. If different architecture versions of the same application needed to be distributed, two separate collections would need to be maintained as targets for the advertisements.
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager makes this process simpler by including the concept of requirement rules that are evaluated at install time. Creating requirement rules eliminates the need for multiple collections to manage targeting of x86 and x64 versions of the same application.
We can simplify the administrative overhead even further by incorporating global conditions into the requirement rules.
This method is easier than using collections for target as the OS version is detected at install time. Additionally, using global conditions is easier than creating requirements rules for each application deployment type.
Step 1: Planning
Before beginning this lab, consider the following scenario:
Let’s try an example with 7-Zip since it has both x86 and x64 versions, we can create a single application with two deployment types, each using a requirement rule and each requirement rule uses a global condition that specifies that the deployment type should only run on the specified architecture version of specific operating systems. In the images below, I have already upgraded my system to SP1 so support for Windows 8 is already visible in some of the screen shots.
Step 2: Implementation
If you created the GC before installing SP1, you can simply update the Global condition to support Windows 8 x64 once SP1 is applied.
This same method can be used to support both desktop and modern versions of Windows 8.x applications.
So can you please show how can I manage multiple version of notepad and notepad++.
Good post Colin, we need see more config man. blogs
What specifically would you like to see with Notepad & Notepad++? Are you actually distributing Notepad as an application with ConfigMgr?
Great post Colin, clear and a real step by step without missing the steps!! Love it keep up the great posts to can it!