how to only advertise program withou forcing install

[soomon]

hey there,

 

i am new to sccm,

i followed the tutorials and now i can successfully deploy an application.

but how do i only advertise a program without forcing the installation?

i didn't really get that.

would be great if somebody could explain that to me.

 

thanks,

soomon

[wmmayms]

If you don´t set a mandatory assignment time on your advertisement that will make the advertisement optional to those that are in the collection that it is tageted to.

 

For example this advertisement will be optional:

[soomon]

ok that's really easy thanks a lot =)

[anyweb]

yup and optional advertisements can appear in the Run Advertised Programs gui in Control Panel.

[soomon]

yup and optional advertisements can appear in the Run Advertised Programs gui in Control Panel.

 

yeah it does appear there.

at least on the it machines, ( we have admin rights on our computers).

but it does not appear on other pcs where the users have no admin rights.

but the program itself runs with administrative right, does it?

so basically this should not make any difference, right?

i also triggered the actions on the configuration manager but this didn't help.

maybe it appears when the pc is restarted... or where can i look if there are any problems?

[Eswar Koneti]

yeah it does appear there.

at least on the it machines, ( we have admin rights on our computers).

but it does not appear on other pcs where the users have no admin rights.

but the program itself runs with administrative right, does it?

so basically this should not make any difference, right?

i also triggered the actions on the configuration manager but this didn't help.

maybe it appears when the pc is restarted... or where can i look if there are any problems?

 

No,Irrespective of users if they have admin rights or not ,it will show in RAP (Run advertised programs) but it uses account which can be specified in the Program properties properties like run with administrative rights or users rights.

 

 

Check the logs if the machine recived the policy or not ?

[soomon]

hi,

thanks for the tip,

 

when i tried to re-run the advertisement it told me to re-create it if machines never received it. so i did that and now it seems to work *happy*

[soomon]

mhm ok still have a problem...

on some pcs the download goes to 99 oder 100% and then nothing happens.

the windows log only sais: download started.

onone pc i logged in with the admin account and downloaded the program but didn't install it.

then, as a user i was able to install it. but on the other pc that didn't help.

did anybody already have that program?

[wmmayms]

mhm ok still have a problem...

on some pcs the download goes to 99 oder 100% and then nothing happens.

the windows log only sais: download started.

onone pc i logged in with the admin account and downloaded the program but didn't install it.

then, as a user i was able to install it. but on the other pc that didn't help.

did anybody already have that program?

 

 

Try setting your advertisement to "Run from DP"