Chapter 8. Deploying applications and packages to ConfigMgr clients

Creating and configuring applications in ConfigMgr is all well and good, but ultimately you do this for only one reason: so you can deploy the application out into the big wide world! Deploying software from ConfigMgr requires that you deploy the application against an existing device or user collection, and that the ConfigMgr client can find the software installation files. As you can see in figure 8.1, in this chapter you’ll learn how to deploy software against both devices and users, set up and deploy legacy software packages, and turn those legacy packages into shiny new AppModel-type applications.

Figure 8.1. This chapter is all about getting applications and packages ...

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