Software Distribution in SCCM 2012 (Using Applications Option)

Go to Software Library -->Click Applications --> Click Create Application

We have different types of package creation. Here I am selecting windows installer (Native)

Specify the location of msi and click Next

Click Next

Add Information about application 

Installation behavior is set to Install for System which basically means that this application will be installed in System context. If you want the application to install in the Users context select Install for User. however if the user does not have administrative permissions they may fail to install the application depending if it requires administrative permissions.

Click Next

Click close

We can directly add distribution point when we are deploying the application but here I am selecting distribute content option by right clicking on application

Click Next

Click Next

Click Add and select distribution point

Select distribution point and Click ok

Click Next

Click Next

Go to Monitoring tab-->Distribution status-->Content status and click on the application . You can see package is copied to distribution point (success-1) 

Right click on application and Click Deploy

Click Browse

We have user based collections and device based collections. Here I am selecting device based collections

Selecting Win7 Machine collection

Here also we can add distribution points

In Purpose we have two options Available and Required.

Available options -->It will be available in software center. We have to manually install the application from software center .

Required options-->It will be available in software center and it will run automatically when it reaches the mandatory time.

I am selecting deploy automatically according to schedule whether or not user is logged on and Click Next

Schedule the application available and installation deadline

Click Next

We can select any one of the options according to user environment. I am selecting “Display in software center and show all notifications” and Click Next

Selected “Display in software center and show all notifications” and Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Close

On client machine “Run the machine policy retrieval & evaluation cycle policy”

On client machine you can see notifications

In software center We can see application started installing

In software center Now We can see application installed