Advertisement start time

Specifies the date and time when the program is advertised and available to run on clients in their respective time zones. By default, the current date and time is specified. To select another date and time, click the adjacent arrows.

If an advertisement start time is earlier than a mandatory assignment time, the client will download the package at the advertisement start time.

To specify that the advertisement start date and time are based on UTC rather than local time, select the UTC check box.

Note
If you select this option, the program will be available on all clients simultaneously.

Advertisement will expire

Specifies whether the advertisement has a date and time after which the program advertisement is no longer available to run on clients in their respective time zones. By default, this check box is cleared and the advertisement will never expire. If selected, the cutoff date and time is set by default at 6 months from the current date and time. To specify another date and time, click the adjacent arrows.

To specify that the advertisement start date and time are based on UTC rather than local time, select the UTC check box.

Note
If you select this option, the advertisement will expire on all clients simultaneously.

Mandatory assignments

Specifies any advertisements that are set as mandatory assignments.

Note
A maximum of 15 mandatory assignments (including re-run advertisements) are allowed at one time for each program.

The following options are available for managing mandatory advertisements:

• New icon: Click to open the Assignment Schedule dialog box and create a new assignment schedule.
  
  
• Properties icon: Click to open the Assignment Schedule dialog box to view or modify the current schedule settings.
  
  
• Delete icon: Click to delete the selected assignment.
  
  

Enable Wake On LAN

Specifies whether to have the advertised program wake up the client computer at the time indicated in the schedule to run the advertised program.

Ignore maintenance windows when running program

Specifies whether to have the advertised program ignore preset system maintenance windows while the program is running.

Allow system restart outside maintenance windows

Specifies whether to allow a restart of the client system if the restart would occur outside a preset maintenance window.

Note
This setting only applies if the program has the ConfigMgr restarts computer option set as an after-running action.

Priority

Specifies the advertisement's priority when sent to child sites. Available options are Low, Medium (default), and High priorities.

Program rerun behavior

Specifies whether the advertised program will be rerun on the client computer if it has previously been run before the scheduled mandatory time.

Note
These rerun settings will apply to the program even if it was previously run by a different advertisement. You cannot specify program rerun behavior for Configuration Manager 2007 R2 virtual application packages. Virtual application packages will always be configured to Always rerun program.

This setting is only configurable for assigned (mandatory) advertisements.

The following options are available:

• Never rerun advertised program: The program will not be rerun on the client if the program has previously been run on the client, even if the program originally failed or the program files have been changed.
  
  
• Always rerun program: The program will always be rerun on the client when the advertisement is scheduled, even if the program has already been successfully run. This is particularly useful when using recurring advertisements in which the program is routinely updated, as with some virus detection software.
  
  

  Note
  Although this option is set by default if the advertisement is not assigned, this setting only has an impact if the advertisement is assigned. This is because users can run an optional program at any time and Configuration Manager will always allow the program to rerun.

• Rerun if failed previous attempt: The program will be rerun when the advertisement is scheduled only if it failed on the previous run attempt. This is particularly useful when assigning a mandatory advertisement, so that it will rerun according to the assignment schedule if it has not successfully done so. This option is set by default if the advertisement is assigned (mandatory).
  
  
• Rerun if succeeded on previous attempt: The program will be rerun only if it has previously run successfully on the client. This is useful when using recurring advertisements in which the program is routinely updated, and in which each update requires the previous update to have been successfully installed.
  
  

Note

When an advertised program is launched from the Run Advertised Program dialog box on a client, the program rerun property is not evaluated before running the program. This means a mandatory program with "Never rerun advertised program" program rerun property can still be rerun as many times as the end user wants to from that dialog box. It's therefore highly recommended that prior to sending out a program, administrators carefully evaluate and test the advertised program rerun behavior and understand the impact if the end user chooses to rerun the program multiple times.

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