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Is there a way to simulate a deployment?

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tim.haslett

Hi All,

Is there a way to simulate a deployment? What I mean by that is, can I deploy a package, so that I can see which computers it will run on, without actually performing the install? Just like a PoSH -whatif.

I have a complex package set up with several steps, where each step is targeted at a specific Inventory Collection, but I have the package conditions set to only run if the computer is not a member of a specific AD OU. I think that I have it set up correctly, but I want to simulate the deployment so that I can see all of the computers that it will run on before I am confident that I will not be running it on a machine that I should not be running it on.

Thanks!

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    tim.haslett

    Okay, so I guess there is no way to do this. I guess that I will need to cull the list when setting up the Targets in the Scheduled Deployment, as this will be deployed overnight.

     

    I would like to make this a feature request - the ability to Simulate a Deployment. When running a Simulation, it would appear to run as normal with all configure Conditions and Options, with a connection made to each machine in the Target list, each step processed with Conditions without actually executing the installs/scripts/etc, and results displayed the same as a normally run package would.

    A successful simulation could then be Redployed in normal mode to allow the package to fully process.

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