How to Import\Export SCCM Application Deployments? Is there a PowerShell command available?

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How to Import\Export SCCM Application Deployments? Is there a PowerShell command available?

Murtaza Morbiwala 5

I am trying to get an SCCM Application Deployments properties using PowerShell command. I am trying to export and import these properties from one environment to another. For Application we have the commands to do so like "Export-CMApplication" but this does not export Deployments properties.

So does Microsoft have a command to export Deployments properties too ?

Please see below image for reference of Deployments and its properties I am looking for.

SCCM Deployments

Could someone suggest a solution for it. Thanks in advance.

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AllenLiu-MSFT 49,316 Microsoft External Staff

Hi, @Murtaza Morbiwala

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

These cmdlets Export-CMApplication and Import-CMApplication allow you to export and import applications between two hierarchies, including dependencies, supersedence relationships, conditions, and virtual environments. However, these cmdlets do not export deployment properties.

To get the properties of an SCCM application deployment using PowerShell, you can use the Get-CMApplicationDeployment cmdlet. This cmdlet retrieves the deployment properties of an application, including the collection name, deployment name, deployment type, and installation behavior.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/configurationmanager/get-cmapplicationdeployment?view=sccm-ps

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Murtaza Morbiwala 5 Reputation points

2024-04-22T10:45:55.43+00:00
Thank you for @AllenLiu-MSFT for your response.

Yes, we get the properties of an SCCM application deployment using Get-CMApplicationDeployment cmdlet but the problem is, it is not convenient as Export-CMApplication cmdlet. My sole requirement is to create a replica of Deployment in another environment.

The problems I foresee using the Get-CMApplicationDeployment is as below:

Every time there is a new property added or updated by Microsoft in the Application Deployment of SCCM, we have to update the code to fetch that new property and then update the New-CMApplicationDeployment cmdlet parameters to create a replica of the required deployment. This would be too tedious to check and code on every SCCM update by Microsoft.

When I create a code logic to create an Application-Deployment replica using Get-CMApplicationDeployment and New-CMApplicationDeployment cmdlets the code might not work if someone has a lower or higher version of SCCM console installed.

Thus, to my understanding it would have been great if there would have been a cmdlet to export and import Application-Deployments by Microsoft for easy functioning. Any specific reason why Microsoft has not provided cmdlets for import and export of deployment?

My requirement is to copy the complete Application and its collections from Pre-live environment to Live environment on successful UAT test. We have the required code for the rest but deployment part is where we are currently stuck.

Any suggestion or guidance would be highly appreciated.

Thank you.
AllenLiu-MSFT 49,316 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-04-23T07:02:46.0666667+00:00

Hi, @Murtaza Morbiwala

Thank you for the details.

What I cannot understand is:

You need to export and import these properties from Pre-live environment to Live environment, why do you want to copy the deployment that means you will deploy the application to the same device collection, but the device in the device collection will not be managed by two different environments at the same time. This might be the reason why Microsoft has not provided cmdlets for import and export of deployment.
Murtaza Morbiwala 5 Reputation points

2024-04-23T09:15:24.3866667+00:00

Hi @AllenLiu-MSFT I have also exported and imported the collections to the live environment without device information. So basically I have already coded to import the Sccm Application and its collections to the live environment. Now if I am able to export and import the deployment, my application would be deployable in the live environment. I shall then add the required devices for deployment in the new environment. So basically I don't need the devices from the pre-live environment, I shall add the devices accordingly from the Live environment. The complete idea is to create a copy of the Sccm Application with all the required components like collections and deployment as they are in the pre-live environment (without the device information is fine) so that it is deployable in the new environment with same settings. We already have a automation to create Application and collections as per standards but here the idea is to import Apps and collections as they are, in case updated after creation. Hope I was able to answer your question and you get my requirement. Thank you.
AllenLiu-MSFT 49,316 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-04-24T08:42:43.5833333+00:00

Hi, @Murtaza Morbiwala

Thanks for the explanation, but there really doesn't seem to be a way to export and import deployments. You may send a suggestion from SCCM console.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/understand/product-feedback
Murtaza Morbiwala 5 Reputation points

2024-05-03T06:09:45.32+00:00

Hi @AllenLiu-MSFT , I have shared feedback with Microsoft for the same as suggested. Thank you.

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