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Managing Windows Installer applications
About source path updates for Windows Installer applications
About source path updates for Windows Installer
applications
On managed computers, you can update the source paths of Windows Installer
applications with resilient source paths.
When a Windows Installer application is broken, Windows Installer can repair or
modify it, but only if the original installation file is accessible. When Windows
Installer tries to modify or repair an application, it uses the application s source
path to access the installation file. This source path is based on the application s
package code. Without resilient source paths, if the installation file is no longer
available, the modification or repair fails. With resilient source paths, Windows
Installer can look for the installation file on a set of package servers that you
designate.
For example, the software delivery policies and tasks in Software Management
Solution typically install packages from a package server. If that package server
becomes unavailable, a Windows Installer application that was installed from
that server cannot be repaired. To avoid this problem, update the application s
source paths to point to additional servers from which the installation file can be
accessed.
You can perform resilient source path updates of Windows Installer applications
with a policy or a task as follows:
Policy
Use a policy as your primary means to update the source paths of Windows
Installer applications. A policy can update the source paths of existing
applications, but also the source paths of the applications that are installed
in the future. To include the applications that are not yet installed, schedule
the policy to run repeatedly.
A Source Path Update policy updates all the Windows Installer applications
that are installed on the client computer.
Task
Use a task when you need to update the source path of a specific application
and the update needs to be done immediately. For example, a Windows
Installer repair might fail because the server that distributed the application
is out of service. You can create a task to update the source path for that
application.
A Source Path Update task can update a specific application or all the
Windows Installer applications that are installed on the client computer.
See
"Updating the source paths of Windows Installer applications"
The Software Management Solution agent must be installed on the client
computers for you to update source paths.
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