You don't want to be halfway through the process and having to go back because you forgot a parameter or registry key! Open up Notepad or your favorite text editor as we will be taking a lot of notes as we go.Read all of the directions before proceeding!.Let's dive in using Firefox as an example. If you can create an Application from an EXE installer, you're certainly capable of creating one using an MSI installer. I'm going to skip writing up how to create an Application from a MSI installer and jump right into using an EXE installer. The bad news is it's going to take a little research, discovery and testing to use the Application method. Are you stuck using the limited Package method? The good news is you're not. SCCM creates the install and uninstall commands and the detection logic for you.īut let's say all you have is an EXE-based installer. You run through the wizard and point it at the MSI file. Creating an Application from a MSI-based installer is trivial. The second and preferred method is using an Application. Using a Package is limiting as you can't make the software available in Software Center and there is no 'detection' method and, therefore, no means of uninstalling the software or automatic remediation should the initial deployment fail. The first method, a holdover from SCCM 2007, is the Package.

There are two ways to create software packages in SCCM 2012.

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