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Can I Control the Order in which SMS Installs Software?

Is there a way to tell SMS in which order it should install the software Packages I assigned to a Collection?

Contributed By: Steven Rachui [MSFT]
If multiple advertisements are scheduled to go out, they will go in whatever order SMS can run them....there is no ordering other than the dependency packages referenced earlier. Dependency packages work very well for controlling execution order but can be a bit tricky to setup.

If for example, you tell program A to run first and then program B, SMS will first check to see if program A has run already on the machine and if it hasn't, it will be executed. If it has already run, SMS will not run it again and will proceed on to running program B.