Environment:
LDMS 9.6, 9.6 SP1
Review Date:
23.02.2015
Description:
After installing LDMS 9.6 or 9.6 SP1 can no longer install Preliminary or Final package, only Main is installed. Package itself was either created from scratch in 9.6 environment or was imported from 9.5 infrastructure, where it was working flawlessly, so what's changed in 9.6?
Observations:
- Package Order doesn't work
- Ignores the Preliminary packages and installs the main package only
- the packages involved in the task work individually though
Solution:
The reason why we see this issue is:
- Package Order (Preliminary/ Main/ Final) is a deprecated feature only available for Agent still running legacy 9.5 version
- 9.6 Agents are unable to use it
- With 9.6 we should be looking to use either Provisioning Template (it gives good results, plus user can control multiple software packages, installation order etc.) or go with Package Bundles. This is the direction Landesk is taking in the SWD component.