Client Management Suite

New to Altiris so this might be a dumb question....

How do you prevent a program from being updated? If you have JAVA v13 installed and the user updates it, how do you get it to go back to version 13? I think its a Application Rule, but not sure how this works let alone find where I would do it.

OR

If the have the newest version installed, remove it and install v13?

Thanks for your time.

V7.1 SP2 loaded...

You don't need a package but you do need an Uninstall command of the form msiexec /x {GUID} /qn and a detection rule detecting by the same GUID.

And you need a Software Release for the v13 (6u13?) with a package, GUID detection rule and install command line.

Then create a Managed Software Delivery Policy with the uninstall for each later Java version listed, newest first, with the detection rule and uninstall command. At the end put the install for v13 with the detection rule.

Apply that to all machines you want to have v13. It will detect any newer versions and run the specific uninstall for that version then install v13.

If you look in resource explorer for machines with newer version, the Add/Remove programs listing should give you the GUID for that version.