Creating Detection Methods
To this point, this chapter has discussed simple detection methods. Now it is time to dive a little deeper to understand the importance of a proper detection method, as well as how to create complex detection methods.
The purpose of a detection method is to determine if the software is installed. A detection method is not used to determine if ConfigMgr installed the application—only to determine if it is installed. Software can be installed and uninstalled in non-standard ways. If you are currently deploying the application to a collection of devices (either available or optional), the current state of the application is evaluated on each targeted system on a regular interval, 7 days by default, which can be configured ...
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