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Task
Manage Windows Installer
installations on client
computers.
Manage virtual applications.
How 6.x features compare to Software Management
Solution 7.0
What you can do with Software Management Solution (continued)
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Description
You can create policies and tasks to manage Windows Installer applications on
managed computers as follows:
Repair Windows Installer applications.
You can proactively identify and repair broken applications on selected computers.
If an application needs repair, a repair command is sent to the Windows Installer
service to initiate self-repair.
See
"Repairing Windows Installer applications"
Update the source paths for Windows Installer applications.
You can update the source paths of Windows Installer applications with resilient
source paths. The updated source paths point to the package servers that you
designate. If an application needs modification or repair, Windows Installer can
access the needed installation file from one of these servers.
See
"Updating the source paths of Windows Installer applications"
See
"About managing Windows Installer applications"
You can use software virtualization to facilitate the management of most
Windows-based software on managed computers. Software virtualization lets you
avoid conflicts between applications and quickly restore a broken application to its
original installed state.
Software Management Solution lets you perform the following virtualization actions:
Virtualize applications during a Managed Software Delivery installation.
Deliver and install virtual layers with any Software Management Solution delivery
policy or task.
Manage the existing virtual layers on the client computers.
See
"Managing virtual applications"
Software Management Solution 7.0 replaces the 6.x versions of Software Delivery
Solution and Application Management Solution as well as some features of
Software Virtualization Solution. Software Management Solution contains most
of the functionality of those solutions as well as many new features and functions.
You can discover how to perform familiar 6.x tasks in Software Management
Solution 7.0 by reviewing the comparisons between the features of the different
versions.
Comparisons between the tasks in 6.x and the tasks in 7.0 are available as follows:
Introducing Software Management Solution
How 6.x features compare to Software Management Solution 7.0
on page 217.
on page 194.
on page 199.
on page 192.
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