Creating an Application that requires Approval

In this lecture, we will create an application that requires administrative approval. We will deploy Notepad ++ and create an EXE installer.

From the Console click software Library, then click Application Management, then right-click on Applications and click create Application.

From the Create Application Wizard, the **General **screen, click Manually specify the application information, then click next.
From General Information , fill out the Meta Data You can go ahead and stop the video while you fill out the name, publisher, and software version. Now click next
From Application Catalog , click edit, and let’s choose a User Category. You can click create and add your own categories if you like. These categories will appear in the clients Software Center and will help you organize your applications.
I’ll go ahead and choose editor then click OK.
Now I can fill in some of the details. Let’s go ahead and browse out to the Icon for Notepad++, then click open, then click next.
Now let’s create our Deployment Type, click Add, from the General Screen , click the down arrow and choose a script installer. A script Installer specifies a script or a program that runs on Windows clients to install content or to do an action. Use this deployment type for setup.exe installers or script wrappers. Then click next.
From **General Information, Now type **the Deployment Type Name – NPP 7.8.6 exe -x32, now click next.
**From Content, **content location, click browse, then browse out to the application location, then click select folder. Then type in the Server name.
**From specify the installation command, **click browse, then browse to the install program and double click the exe. So, the **installation command is “npp.7.8.6. installer.exe” **
Now for an EXE, we will need to find out what the silent install command line is.
From google if you search Note++ silent install…