Creating a Package
Because the focus of this chapter is software packaging, the next sections walk through the steps to create a package in ConfigMgr and provide examples of the process.
Packages can come in many flavors:
• Packages that use a definition file.
You can create ConfigMgr packages either with a definition file or without. A definition file provides the answers to the majority of the questions required to create a package.
SMS 1.x definition files had an extension of PDF (Package Definition File). With SMS 2.0, you created the definitions in files using either a PDF or SMS (Systems Management Server) extension. Although these two types of definition files still exist and you can use them with ConfigMgr to create a package, they are ...
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