NEWSCCM - How to detect externally installed application

[ehendricks]

Trying to deploy an application from SCCM, which relies on the presence of another application installed from an external source. The SCCM app needs the external app to be fully installed before it can run it's own install script. Is there a way to detect the presence of the external app before running the SCCM deployment or it's install script?

[Nitin_ted]

run report
Export all Application installed
InstalledSoftware | summarize dcount( Device ) by ProductName

its list out all the application installed.

[Garth]

Trying to deploy an application from SCCM, which relies on the presence of another application installed from an external source. The SCCM app needs the external app to be fully installed before it can run it's own install script. Is there a way to detect the presence of the external app before running the SCCM deployment or it's install script?

There is NO way anyone can answer this question. There are far too many unknowns, What is the app? how does it get installed? How do you detect this manually?

Why not included the app in ConfigMgr? That would be my first question.

[GSTERLING]

Depending on the situation you can probably set up a Global Condition to detect the presence of the application and use that as a requirement in your SCCM app. As@Garthmentions there are quite a few variables to consider.