Hi,
I'm new to SCCM and I am helping out deploying software at my company, I just deployed a patch update impacting 6,000 workstations and so far most workstations are installing successfully. I have not yet reached a high level of compliance (given that there
are about 26k workstations total and I just pushed the patch 48 hours ago)
BUT my question is for the specific application/patch does the "Devices with installation failure" number ever decrease if the install gets retried? Does SCCM attempt to retry automatically?
I did find out that on some workstations the patch would not install using the simple "msiexec /p patch.msp" command, it required a more detailed install string such as "msiexec /a original.msi /p patch.msp" for it to work. So to try to
get everyone upgraded I created TWO deployment types for this package, one is the simple "msiexec /p patch.msp" (Priority 1) and the second deployment type (Priority 2) is the "msiexec /a original.msi /p patch.msp" one.
I was expecting that SCCM would attempt deployment type priority 1, and automatically attempt the second deployment type if the first one failed. But I believe that my logic is flawed since I read on some forums that SCCM will pick the first priority deployment
type (both have no requirements) and if it fails it would not attempt the second deployment, is this correct?
Thanks in advance for helping out a noob.