MDT 2010/ConfigMgr – UDI – Adding Applications To The Wizard
Lets take a look at how we can add some applications the UDI wizard to be presented to the user. This post will cover the basics of adding an application the be presented in the wizard and making it mandatory. There will be later posts on some of the more advanced functions you can do with applications, for example like “mapping.”
First lets configure our package selection screen. We want to configure our server name (1), then refresh the data (2), and then we want to select the application we want to add (3), and finally add it to the select packaged list (4):
Next we want to add the application the list:
Notice that we don’t see Office 2010 listed. This is because in order to show up on the list, the checkbox for allowing this program to be run from a TS needs to be selected.
Now, some interesting behavior with the UDI designer, is that even after checking this box, you still won’t be able to see the program listed. Let me show you below.
Lets refresh our data:
And now try to see the program again:
Still not listed. So what we need to do in order to get the program to show us is actually remove it from the list and re-add it again.
Now it’s listed again:
And now we can actually add it as an application to our wizard:
Now we have it selected and configure other properties if we would like to:
Most commonly, you would pick “Mark as Selected” and/or “Selection Locked”. For this purpose, we are going to leave these cleared and just present it in the wizard. You’ll now have an entry for OSD applications.
If we run the Task Sequence on a machine, we will now see that we have Office 2010 listed as a selectable application:
Now, lets go ahead and add another application, but make it mandatory this time. Here we’ve taken Adobe Reader 9 and marked it as selected and locked the selection.
And when the Task Sequence is ran again, it will show up like this in the wizard and we can see that Adobe Reader 9 is checked and grayed out and we are unable to clear the check box:
Here we can see Adobe Reader installing in the Task Sequence using the options we just showed above:
Now you’ve seen the basics of adding applications to the UDI wizard and presenting them to the user. Along with making a application mandatory to the user, this would be great for items like virus scanning software or other client agents you might want to force to be installed through UDI.