hi there,
I have a question around user device affinity with regards to users that have multiple devices due the usage of those machines.
in most of our cases, users have 1 machine so any targeting of software with the requirement of user being primary user works fine, but we have a number of cases, mainly IT guys and engineers, who run up multiple machines constantly and therefore have many "primary" devices, although 1 will probably be their main computer. If I targeted those users with an uninstall program for, let say Visio, and lets say visio was indeed installed on all of a particular users computers, then, as all those computers are regarded as primary device for that user, all visio installs will be removed from all computers. there is no way to differentiate that I only want visio uninstalled from a users "main" primary device. ie. it is a case of all or nothing. is that correct, and if so, would it then be a better bet in these cases to uninstall using a computer based method rather then user based, or an SCCM technician would need to make sure that device affinity was cleaned up prior to any uninstall deployment?
I can see how device affinity works nicely where users work as they are supposed to, ie with 1 device. but it is the groups that don't fit into this pattern that I'm trying to get my head around how to manage when deploying apps to users rather than the old method of packages to computers.
also, as an aside, I assume that the uninstall program set up in a deployment type, runs the requirement tests before running in the same way that if you where running the install program it tests?
thanks
douglas