Rob Looman Blog

It has been a while since the last time I blogged. In this post I will show the last step in my PowerShell script thats create and deploy an application in SCCM 2012. The steps of the script are

• Create Application SCCM 2012 XML
• Import XML into SCCM 2012
• Create Collection
• Create Collection Rule
• Distribute Content to Distribution group
• Deploy Application to collection

I will explain the last step of this script. Altough it is a simple step it was hard to discover how it worked. In 2012 deploying an application is actually assigning an application to a collection. It therefore uses the wmi class SMS_ApplicationAssignment. To deploy an application al you have to do is to create an instance, fill it with values en save it. An example is shown below

$ApplicationAssignmentClass = [wmiclass] "\\$($SccmServer.Machine)\$($SccmServer.Namespace):SMS_ApplicationAssignment"
        $newApplicationAssingment = $ApplicationAssignmentClass.CreateInstance()
        $newApplicationAssingment.ApplicationName = "Microsoft Office 2013 NL"
        $newApplicationAssingment.AssignmentName = "Deploy Microsoft Office 2013" 
        $newApplicationAssingment.AssignedCIs                 = $CI_ID
        $newApplicationAssingment.CollectionName                  = $ColllectionName
        $newApplicationAssingment.CreationTime                    = "20120101120000.000000+***" 
        $newApplicationAssingment.LocaleID                        = 1043
        $newApplicationAssingment.SourceSite                      = "S01
        $newApplicationAssingment.StartTime                       = "20120101120000.000000+***" 
        $newApplicationAssingment.SuppressReboot                  = $true
        $newApplicationAssingment.NotifyUser                      = $true
        $newApplicationAssingment.TargetCollectionID              = $CollectionID 
                
        $newApplicationAssingment.OfferTypeID = 2
        $newApplicationAssingment.WoLEnabled  = $false
        $newApplicationAssingment.RebootOutsideOfServiceWindows = $false
        $newApplicationAssingment.OverrideServiceWindows  = $false
        $newApplicationAssingment.UseGMTTimes = $true
        [void] $newApplicationAssingment.Put()