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In our final part, we want to create the offline media to use to reimage our physical machines.

In the last 4 parts, we looked at of setting up a SCCM test lab and have now deployed our first application.

In this post, we will look at how the deployed application looks on the client side and install this new application.

This post was delayed as I was looking into SCCM 2016 and investigating the upgrade paths

Recently I have been troubleshooting an issue I had with Visio Viewer 2016 on Windows 7. The application appears to install just fine, all Visio drawing files appears with the correct icons and is now associated with Internet Explorer. But once you open the file, the plugin or viewer does not load in Internet Explorer.

Note : This was tested on Windows 7, but it applies to Windows Server 2008 R2 as well. It is in fact where I first encountered the error

When we last looked at the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit, we looked at a simple example of installing Visual C++ Runtime, which does not show the power of using the toolkit. In this post, we want to look at a more complete example of using the toolkit to save time and effort creating deployment scripts.

Toolkit Configuration

But first, we want to look into some of the configuration options of the toolkit. The toolkit folder has a file called AppDeployToolkitConfig.xml. This contains all the default configurations which will be used for all deployments.

This post picks up after part 1, part 2 and part 3. I suggest you read all 3 parts first to understand what is happening here in part 4.

In this part 4, we will setup the SCCM discovery methods, boundaries, boundary groups, SCCM roles, and push the SCCM Client to our client machine.

Lets get started

This post picks up after part 1 and part 2. I suggest you read both parts first to understand what is happening here in part 3.

Anyway, this has been long overdue :-)

In this part, we will be looking at setting up some initial group policies, setting up firewall rules, installing SCCM prerequisites, and finally installing SCCM.

Well, lets get started then

If you have not read part 1 yet, I suggest you read that post first.

In part 1, we set up a basic server and nothing else. It is time to add more bits to our server and create our test lab domain. When we ended part 1, we shut down our server. Time to boot it up, and login as the local administrator.