What is difference between package and application.

They both can be used to deploy software, but applications provide a lot more functionalities. It provides additional functionalities like detection, supersedense, requirements and dependencies.

http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2013/03/01/sccm-2012-applications-vs-packages/

Packages are all we had in ConfigMgr 2007, You can deploy things as a package or an application.

Applications may take a little more work to add in, but you have many benefits like supersedence.

If an application that is pushed out via the application model is uninstalled by someone then it will eventually be reinstalled automatically, where as a package wouldn't.

http://www.david-obrien.net/2014/04/applications-vs-packages-configmgr-package-model-wont-go-anywhere/

https://allthingsconfigmgr.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/package-vs-application/

• Edited by -Richk- 22 hours 53 minutes ago