BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Jason_whitaker — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:35:17 GMT

Great doc

BDD 2007 - Sorted application list - backup applications.xml first

Aaron Tiensivu's Blog — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:44:52 GMT

Very cool "add-on" application for BDD. Tired of having an unsorted application list? Go download the application referenced here. Side-note: Now that the BDD Source Code is on MS's site, I'm almost tempted to implement this natively.

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Ken Lampel — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:13:25 GMT

Anyone have a clue to bring up the applications menu with checkboxes all ready checked for a few applications that are installed each time during a lite-touch scenario?

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

BenHunter — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:04:25 GMT

Hi Ken, There is no way to make them appear with ticks pre populated. You can however specify applications that will be installed using rules.

Thanks,

Ben

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

John-Smith — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:19:30 GMT

You can add pre-checked applications when you deploy the OS, you just have to add lines in the rule tab of the deployment point (or in the CustomSettings.ini)

Applications1={61a633df-353a-43e6-a1e3-8c1b582cdc45}

Applications2={e447e4db-a06e-46a9-8e3c-3b11abd31163}

Applications3={7b282d07-cee5-4d81-8ecd-f4db51564de4}

etc...

you can find the right part in the applications.xml file.

I use this to install groups of applications (with the dependency)

John

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

kenlampel — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:35:37 GMT

Thanks Ben! I have one more question though, actually its a request to change that bddsort.exe file. It seems to sort applications via "Name" and not "Full Name". We put the vendor as well as the application name in BDD and would like to sort by the Full Name field. Is there a way to contact the creator of this exe?

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Lou — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:30:48 GMT

Ben, is there anyone to Sort by FullName instead of Name?

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Paul Kirby — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:51:46 GMT

I've noticed that when you run this application, it strips all dependencies from all applications. Is this intended? It's kinda annoying...

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

BenHunter — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:20:42 GMT

I have just updated the attachment with the source code for this application. This will allow you to create your own versions that take into account depenencies and change it to sort by full name if you wish.

Thanks,

Ben

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Lou Sabatini — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:58:18 GMT

Thank you so much Ben!

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

lsabatini — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:47:42 GMT

Paul, I was able to Sort by FullName and keep the Dependencies. I can tell you what you have add and change if you like?

Thanks,

Lou

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

BenHunter — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:55:53 GMT

Would you be able to add a comment detailing how to do it, so everyone can see?

Thanks,

Ben

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

lsabatini — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:43:37 GMT

Not a problem.

**In the Applications.cs file I added a Private string where all the other private strings are:**

"private string dependencyField;"

**At the end of the File I added:**

"/// <remarks/>

[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Form = System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]

public string Dependency

{

get

{

return this.dependencyField;

}

set

{

this.dependencyField = value;

}

I then rebuilt bddsort with visual studio and used the new executable.

To change the Sort to FullName, open the Program.cs file and change "Name" to "FullName"

located in this part of the file:

" #region IComparer<applicationsApplication> Members

public int Compare(applicationsApplication x, applicationsApplication y)

{

return x.FullName.CompareTo(y.FullName);

}

#endregion"

Rebuild the bddsort with Visual studio. The new .exe will be in the bin/Debug folder.

Thanks,

Lou

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Alex — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:03:02 GMT

Any chance of sharing this renewed EXE?

I am not familiar with Visual Studio, but would like to sort the applications with Dependencies kept.

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

lsabatini — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:27:59 GMT

Sure I can... This one is sorted by FullName and keeps the Dependencies. I will post it up when I get off work today.

Thanks,

Lou

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Paul Kirby — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:59:09 GMT

That code you posted for the dependency tracking works great - however it only works when an application has a single dependency. Is there a way to modify it to track multiple dependencies? Unfortunately C# and XML aren't my forte.

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

lsabatini — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:09:55 GMT

Sorry, I did not test it with an application that has more than one dependency. Most of our apps don't have more than 1 dependency. I will work on it for you and try to get it to do multiple dependencies for each application.

Here is the new .exe to save a single dependency for each application that has one.

<a href="http://empirecitytech.com/downloads/bddsortDep.zip">Bddsort.exe</a>

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Dan Van Drunen - House of Commons, Canada — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:53:14 GMT

In respose to Ken post asking if there was a way to have applications pre-checked off in the applications wizard.

I have found that if you use the databse functionality, and create a Role with applications added to that Role.

Make sure the role is being applied to the system you are deploying, and you will see that all of the applications added to that role will be checked off.

This works with multiple roles aswell.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

Dan

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

Jacob Hodges — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:47:21 GMT

I've created an application similar to this but lets you specify your own order. More details are at http://blog.project84.net/2007/11/05/SortingApplicationsInBDD2007.aspx

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

cuffpj — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:33:29 GMT

Hi Ben

Is there any way you can hide certin applications from a particular Builds/Task Sequence? I thought you could do this in BDD 2007 but can't seem to work it out in MS Deployment 4.

thanks

Phil

re: BDD 2007 - Tips and Tricks - Sorting Applications

BenHunter — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:41:41 GMT

Hi Phil,

You can do this per application using the "Hide this application in the deployment wizard" check box in the application properties.

Unfortunately this is for all builds and task sequences, not particular ones.

Thanks,

Ben

MDT Application Sorting

SCDPM — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:05:39 GMT

By default the MDT Applications list is ordered by the way they were entered. Last one in equals last

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