InstallShield 2016
Project • This information applies to Basic MSI projects.
Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is a solution that helps IT administrators manage and deploy applications to users throughout an enterprise. It takes a user-centric approach to application delivery, allowing IT administrators to define each application so that it can be deployed to users on a variety of devices in the most appropriate format, with the required application dependencies.
Accurate identification of deployment metadata is necessary for migrating applications into the Configuration Manager application model. InstallShield includes the ability to specify some of the application model metadata for an application through a software identification tag. When AdminStudio users import a package into the AdminStudio Application Catalog, AdminStudio Application Manager mines package elements for deployment data such as detection methods, dependencies, requirements, as well as information in the software identification tag. AdminStudio makes this information available to users for review and tests before publishing to Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
To include application model data for System Center Configuration Manager in your installation:
| 1. | Ensure that you are including a software identification tag in your project. For more information, see Including a Software Identification Tag for Your Product. |
| 2. | In the View List under Installation Information, click General Information. |
| 3. | In the Add SCCM App Model Data setting, select Yes. |
| 4. | Configure the subsettings under the Add SCCM App Model Data setting as needed. For more information, see General Information View Settings. |
When you include tagging and application model data in your project, InstallShield adds the tag with the application model data to two new components that it creates, and it associates the components with one of your project’s features. The components are:
| • | ISO19770_LocalTag, which has a destination of INSTALLDIR |
| • | ISO19770_SystemTag, which has a destination of CommonAppDataFolder |
Use the Setup Design view if you want to associate these components with a different feature in your project. For more information, see Component-Feature Associations.
At build time, if the following conditions are true, InstallShield includes the software identification tag with the installation that it builds; it also includes the application model data in the tag:
| • | Yes, the default value, is selected for the Use Software Identification Tag setting in the General Information view. |
| • | The Unique ID, Tag Creator, and Tag Creator ID settings in the General Information view have values. |
| • | Yes is selected for the Add SCCM App Model Data setting in the General Information view. |
If you configure your project to include a software identification tag and you also configure the release in the Releases view to use a .pfx file to digitally sign your release, InstallShield digitally signs the tag at build time. Note that the .NET Framework 2.0 or later must be installed on your build machine in order to sign a tag file.
See Also
InstallShield 2016 Help LibraryAugust 2016 |
Copyright Information | Flexera Software |