Hi there
Hoping someone can shed some light on an issue I am struggling to find indepth information about:
1) Application revisions and Deployment Type revisions.
The revision number of an Application is easy to view in the SCCM 2012 console, in the summary area.
The revision number of a Deployment Type only seems to be visible in certain CCM logs when an application is being deployed.
Based on what I've read, any changes to an Application or its Deployment Type which is updated to the Distribution Points results in the revision number of the APPLICATION being incremented.
That being so, where does the Deployment Type revision get updated? What activity results in the Deployment Type revision being incremented?
The Application revision and Deployment revision on the same app I have looked at are different - how does this come to be?
Do both revisions start out the same number, 1, then if a change ONLY to the Application is made, the Application revision is incremented, and likewise if the Deployment Type is changed ONLY does that objects revision get incremented? That doesn't sound plausible.
I have tried to find an indepth explanation of the differences between Application and Deployment Type revision numbers but haven't been able to do so.
If anyone can link to a detailed explanation I'd appreciate it.
2) We had an OSD outage some time ago, whereby one application in a task sequence failed to install and crashed the task sequence. After looking into it, the task sequence was trying to download an older Application revision i.e. not the latest revision. Why would this happen? There are various sites which cover this issue out there but although all are helpful they frankly admit they know what happens and how to fix it, but not WHY it happens. Why would a task sequence try to download an older revision of an application and not automatically try to download the latest revision? Is it the case that any changes to applications which are referenced in a task sequence should result in the application being removed and re-added to the task sequence?
Right now I'm more interested in a detailed explanation of the differences between Application revisions and Deployment Type revisions - if anyone can shed some light I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
John
Glasgow