The nasty OSD App Tree bug has been squashed and version 2.5.1 is ready: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/pages/osdapptree.aspx.
Awesome, this is working great !! Thanks !!
A couple suggestions for the documentation:
On page 4, the screenshot needs to be updated so it shows the correct Base Variable Name, OSDAppTreeApps.
Also, as someone who is implementing multiple applications for the first time through the TS, maybe include something about the criteria for the programs or informing the user to check the help file on the topic for the information. I knew it had to be a silent install and run whether or not a user is logged on but the checkbox for "Allow this program to be installed from the Install Software task sequence step without being advertised" option in the Advanced tab of the program was something I had never heard of and was a stumbling block for quite awhile for me.
Hi. Great tool , i really like it.
Only problem or question i have is i would like to be ble to test this without going through an entire image process. I can run the OSDAppTree.exe and see that the approproiate applications are selected and noted in the log file, but i want to test the installation of the applications selected via the OSDAppTree.exe without having to image a new machine each time.
Anyway to do this?
No, the actual application installation functionality is provided by the software install task and thus OSDAppTree is useless without a task sequence. In the next version (2.6) you will be able to run OSDAppTree before a task sequence and then using a help applet load the choices into a task sequence. Using that, you can then create a simple two task task sequence -- a command-line task to load the choices from a saved data file and a software install task to perform the actual software installs.
