Delivering Packages; About Package Delivery - Symantec ALTIRIS 7.0 SP2 - MANAGEMENT SOLUTION Manual

Delivering packages

This chapter includes the following topics:

About Package Delivery

When all you need to do is quickly push out a package, use Package Delivery. This
task-based delivery method lets you deliver any package regardless of whether it
is associated with a software resource.
You might use Package Delivery for the following reasons:
See
About Package Delivery
Delivering a package without defining a software resource
Package settings for Package Delivery tasks
To deliver a package that your organization chooses not to manage in the
Software Catalog.
To quickly deliver a new package that is not yet in the Software Catalog.
To deliver a package that is in the Software Catalog, but with a command line
that is not defined for the package.
For example, a package is in the Software Catalog and is associated with
predefined command lines. You need to deliver that package with a specialized
command line, but you do have the privileges to edit the package or its software
resource. You can create a Package Delivery task for that package and type
the command line that you need.
To run a task that you migrated from the Task Server Plug-in in Software
Delivery Solution 6.x to Software Management Solution 7.0.
The migrated tasks let you perform deliveries with the same configurations
as the 6.x tasks.
"Delivering a package without defining a software resource"
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