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Deploy Windows 10 Desktop Shortcuts and Icons with SCCM Configuration Baselines

By / May 29, 2019 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft, Windows 10

It started with a Tweet… I promised on Twitter that I would write this post if I had 20 peoples interest… Background We had a requirement to deploy Desktop Shortcuts, to the Windows 10 Public Desktop, for a new application. The shortcut was deployed using Group Policy Preferences (GPP). Below is a link to a …

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Converting legacy packages into applications with SCCM 1810 Package Conversion Manager

By / February 6, 2019 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Microsoft

Background Since SCCM 2012 Microsoft have been steering us towards using “applications” to install apps over the traditional “packages” method. Applications give us additional benefits over packages like detection methods, dependencies and requirement rules . An example might be:- Install APP-B if the folder “C:\Program Files\APP-B_FOLDER” doesn’t exist (detection), only if APP-A is already installed …

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