I am interested in knowing how many people are using MS System Center Configuration Manager to deploy applications to their sequencing machines when capturing an AppStack?
I have created an App Volumes environment where we take the source packages from the Configuration Manager environment and use a powershell script to install and customise the applications when capturing an AppStack on the sequencing machine. We then use UEM to perform further customisation of the user environment and how we present the applications to the users. We have a 100% floating, linked pool environment and do not include the configuration manager client on our virtual desktops at all.
Every so often a new staff member will join the IT team and start arguing that we should be using System Center Configuration Manager with our virtual desktops and particularly for creating both the Master Image and AppStacks.
I personally think this is unnecessary and would complicate the process and is likely to introduce problems which we are avoiding by having full control of the build process by scripting all install and configuration tasks.
I'd like to know if many people are using system center configuration manager to build their master images and appstacks? If you are, have you found it works well and does it introduce any of it's own problems?
Has anyone else actively decided not to use config manager? And if so, what were some of your reasons?
Thanks
