Application with interdependent DT's not sharing content

[Adam Bise]

I have an application that is a suite (adobe creative cloud)

 

The installation is a 3 part step, Acrobat pro via pre mode exceptiondeployer, main install (I'm using the exe bootstrap), then post install exceptions.

 

I set up an application and added 3 deployment types to it, with the preinstall depending the main install, the main install depending the post install, and the post install is priority 1.

 

I haven't even got it all working yet but in my lab experiments I have found that when the app is deployed it attempts to download the content 3 separate times.

 

All 3 DT's have content pointing to the same folder, yet SCCM thinks they are different.

 

Why would it be trying to download the same content 3 times? Is it because I clicked update content on one of the DT's?

 

How do I correct this part? I'm not so much concerned with the fact that the application doesn't install, that is another story, I just want to make these DT's share content. Or find out if I'm trying to go about this totally wrong.

 

I suppose I could script the whole process instead of making 3 DT's but at this point I'm curious why it isn't reusing the content.

[Peter van der Woude]

The multiple deployment types are not designed to install multiple applications. An application in ConfigMgr should be one software package and the multiple deployment types are just to make it possible to deploy one application to multiple platforms. So create an application in ConfigMgr per software package.

[Adam Bise]

Thanks. I wound up making an app with 2 DT's x86 and x64. Their content was an empty folder with just an install script. The script worked out the 3 step install sequence over the network so no caching was needed.