
There's several different ways to that, three of them being rather simple, the last one not so much: To deploy an application, SCCM needs a way to detect if that application is already installed, or whether a deployment initiated through SCCM succeeded. So to solve this issue, we've opted to install all currently available packages on our computers. As many will know, there are quite a lot of these things, and different applications will use different versions of this runtime, so it's rarely sufficient to install just one of them. One of the things we've previously had a lot of trouble with, is deploying the Redistributable(s) of the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime. SCCM is a device management software by Microsoft, used to automatically install operating systems, provision applications and keeping computers (and the installed software) up to date on a large scale. As of writing this, I am working as an apprentice in IT and one of my duties is administering our System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) server, taking care mostly of application and operating system deployments.
