About Delivering Multiple Software Resources And Tasks - Symantec ALTIRIS 7.0 SP2 - MANAGEMENT SOLUTION Manual

About delivering multiple software resources and
tasks
See "About advanced software deliveries"
When you create a Managed Software Delivery policy for a software resource that
has a supersedence association with other software, a message notifies you.
Depending on the nature of the association, your options are as follows:
The selected software
supersedes other software
Other software supersedes
the selected software
The supersedence settings appear in the following places:
In the Managed Software Delivery wizard, on the Select software resource
page.
See "Select software resource page"
In the Policy Rules/Actions section that appears when you edit a Managed
Software Delivery policy or create one without the Managed Software Delivery
wizard.
See "Policy Rules/Actions: Software tab"
For more information, see the topics about supersedence and about associations
between software resources in the Symantec Management Platform Help.
You can deliver multiple software resources and tasks with a single Managed
Software Delivery policy. When Managed Software Delivery evaluates compliance
for a group of software, only the software that is out of compliance is downloaded
and installed. You can add any client tasks to the execution queue to perform
custom operations before, during, or after the software remediation process. A
client task is one that is defined in Notification Server and is intended to run on
a client computer.
For example, you can create a single Managed Software Delivery policy that
performs the following actions:
Performing advanced software deliveries

About delivering multiple software resources and tasks

on page 96.
The policy can uninstall the superseded software from the
client computer before the selected software is installed.
You can take either of the following steps:
Create the Managed Software Delivery policy for the
superseding software instead and ensure that you
distribute only the current version of the software.
Install the superseded software anyway. You can make
the installation conditional by configuring it not to
install the software if a newer version is already
installed.
on page 108.
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