Creating an Application using an MSI Part 1

In this lecture, we will create an application using an MSI. An MSI is a Windows Installer.

• Creating an application from an MSI file is probably one of the easiest applications that you can create within Config Manager because most of the installation command line, including parameters, are pre-filled and are part of the MSI.
• Now let’s go ahead and create our application

From the console, click Software Library, then click Application Management, then click Applications, then right-click create application.

From the General screen, we are going to create our deployment type for this application.

• So what is a deployment type? The concept is simple, for example, Lets say we have 100 computers in our office, and we want to deploy the 7-Zip application to all 100 computers. 50 of these computers run Windows 10 64 bit O/S, and the other 50 run Windows 10 the 32 bit version of the O/S. You would create one deployment type for the 64 bit O/S. Then you would go back and create another deployment type for the other 50 computers running Windows 10 32 bit. So in this case, the deployment type is based upon the version of Windows 10.
• In that example, we can create one application, and by creating two deployment types, one for 32 bit windows and one for 64 bit windows, we can successfully deploy that single application to all 100 computers.

That’s the point of deployment types, that an Application can contain multiple deployment types that customize the installation behavior of the application.

• Now we want to choose the default MSI file and browse out to our software location. So in this case, that will be \\\SASCCM01\Software\7-zip_msi\7z 1604\7z 1604 x64.
• Now click Open, then click next. If you get a warning that saying the installer file could not be verified that means that the file is **not digitally signed.…