Using Roles to Identify Applications to Deploy with a Task Sequence Catalog Item
App Portal 2020 R1
You can use roles to manage software deployments. Roles are a grouping of applications, computer variables, and/ or User State Migration Tool (USMT) profiles that App Portal can apply conditionally during the imaging process.
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Role types—Roles can contain applications (such as System Center Configuration Manager applications or packages), System Center Configuration Manager task sequence variables, or Microsoft User State Migration Tool (USMT) profiles that are used to transfer data and settings. You can use roles to sort applications in an organized manner, such as by business unit, during the imaging process.
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Conditions—You can apply roles conditionally using an Active Directory (AD) security group or Organizational Unit (OU), AD property, or System Center Configuration Manager Collection.
If a role is associated with a task sequence catalog item, when a requester checks out that catalog item, they will be prompted to select a role to specify the applications that will be installed along with the new operating system. For example, you could create roles to identify the applications used by members of each of your departments (Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, etc.). Then when that catalog item is checked out, the requester will be prompted to select the role of the department that they belong to.
Note:Roles are used exclusively for the OS deployment (OSD) process in System Center Configuration Manager. The App Portal’s Roles feature is not available for Symantec Endpoint Management (Altiris). For grouping applications together in an organized fashion outside of the System Center Configuration Manager OSD process, see Creating a Group Catalog Item.