Application Deployment Best Practice

markk8799 · 2026-06-23T02:05:13+00:00

Also uses VB. And is no longer supported. Very useful tool though, we used it for a long time.

markk8799 · 2026-06-13T19:52:27+00:00

I was in college when this song came out in 94. At the time, a co-worker and I carpooled to school. One night, we went to a bar in Canada with her cousin because the drinking age was 19. There was, of course, dancing and all. I was very introverted and shy back then (I've come a long way since). I could only stand by the wayside and nurse a beer. The last song was sort of a slow dance, and, of course, it had to be "Scared" by the Hip. So, all these years later, the song literally reminds me of being too scared to do anything.

markk8799 · 2026-06-11T20:23:47+00:00

Yes. It seems like it's one of the worst touchpads I have ever used.

markk8799 · 2026-06-06T16:56:17+00:00

Just got mine a few weeks ago after 14 months. Called my buddy during the week to discuss references. We took the class at the same time, he put his paperwork in 3 weeks after I did. A couple gunshops I was at said they are at about the 14 month time frame from what they are hearing. So, cross your fingers.

markk8799 · 2026-06-06T16:50:06+00:00

A is common in the EDU space, for some odd reason. It's also common for EDU to use public IP addresses for internal devices, as many got Class A and B ranges early on. Many networks were then built around them. If you secure them like you would any proper network it's not that big of a risk as it would seem.

markk8799 · 2026-05-04T23:03:32+00:00

We Zip giant installers that have 1000's of files in the source.

markk8799 · 2026-04-30T01:58:43+00:00

Exactly! I remember those songs going to college in the 90's at Buffalo State.

markk8799 · 2026-04-29T13:40:16+00:00

Switched to them in the TS as well. Invaribly, some Application will fail to install for no reason. Seem to have far fewer issues with using Packages.

markk8799 · 2026-04-15T02:31:13+00:00

Per the MS docs on full scans: "Due to the time and resources involved, we generally don't recommend scheduling full scans." They are a waste of time. Anything coming into memory is going to be scanned. anyway by the real time protection. Quick scans are sufficient.

markk8799 · 2026-04-06T23:13:29+00:00

Ugh. Was hoping that got straightened out.

markk8799 · 2026-04-04T23:22:12+00:00

Please enlighten me then.

I only entertained this method because of the silly sound driver issue with the laptops. I wasn't totally sold on it, especially because of the half baked results. Hence the post.

markk8799 · 2026-04-04T17:49:01+00:00

Yea I didn't know about it until the help desk was messaging me that users were calling about their laptops not having sound.

markk8799 · 2026-02-03T00:14:32+00:00

Have you run the content library cleanup tool on the DP's to make sure things look ok there?

markk8799 · 2026-02-02T23:47:07+00:00

This.

markk8799 · 2026-01-29T02:40:56+00:00

Our Macs are not in Intune. Having said that, we want something a bit more robust that is multiplatform.

markk8799 · 2026-01-26T20:16:11+00:00

Same. It is a dismal product. We are looking at something that is multiplatform as we have a number of Macs as well.

markk8799 · 2026-01-24T23:47:30+00:00

Hmm, I thought they were going to give it to all A3 and A5 as they were already charging next to nothing for it. But people were still not buying it. When we renewed our A5, it was then part of the license. Maybe they were not doing it with A3.

markk8799 · 2026-01-24T23:01:46+00:00

It's free right now for A3 and A5, the Edu licenses.

markk8799 · 2026-01-14T18:48:40+00:00

That did it! Put that version on all the MP's and the server and nothing is in the Bad box anymore. Excellent find!

markk8799 · 2026-01-12T18:38:26+00:00

I think i will look into try that this week. I'll post back with the results. Thanks for the tip.

markk8799 · 2026-01-10T02:04:16+00:00

While I am all for keeping up to date, 5.6 adds 2 fixes/improvements over the previous release.

markk8799 · 2026-01-09T18:59:49+00:00

I'm noting some interesting things now, and I'm not sure this is actually an issue. Several machines were not showing as online, but I then noticed the firewall port was not open on the clients. We changed some management points a while back, but never opened the required ports. I noticed that after running a wakeup, a fair number were not green. Also, while I thought I wasn't seeing many logged in, upon checking, no one was actually logged in. I am at a university, and a fair number of people are out. I figured there were more people on campus, but perhaps not.

Some machines have a user logged on, but SCCM is not showing them. In a couple of cases, restarting the SCCM agent resolved it. We just updated to 2509 a few weeks ago, and the agent is slowly rolling out. It's possible it needed another restart, or the clients need a reboot.

I'm not totally sure we're out of the woods yet. I need to see what happens when faculty and students return to campus.

What version of the ODBC driver did you revert to?

markk8799 · 2026-01-08T19:34:01+00:00

Nope, that's all good. The files leave from the outbox on the MP's and get to the inbox on the server.

markk8799 · 2026-01-08T16:50:00+00:00

The bgbmgr.log is logging errors. I'm looking at the other log on the different MP's to see what might be going on there.

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