Using Global Conditions to check the State of a Service with ConfigMgr 2012

This week my post will be about using a Global Condition to check the State of a service. I came to this, as I was once again deploying my UE-V Agent, like here, but this time via a normal Deployment. This installation will only run, without failure, when the Offline Files Service (CscService) is running. So a Requirement for the Deployment Type should be that the service is running. As I like to find ways to do things without the need of scripts/ scripting, I came to using a standard Global Condition. Configuration Now lets take a look at how we can configure a Global Condition, in such a way, that it checks for the State of a service. During the configuration steps I will …

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