Hi, @Jason Steeves
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For my understanding, executing the Application Deployment Evaluation Cycle will prompt ConfigMgr to trigger a re-install of the application.
It's recommended to use configuration item and configuration baseline to detect if a file is existed, choose the setting type File system to create the setting:
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