ConfigMgr 2012 – Change Application Source Path

Big thanks to Angel Redondo for helping out with this.

Changing the source path for packages in SCCM 2007 was pretty easy over the SMSProvider.
It’s a bit different in ConfigMgr 2012.

Looking through the WMI Classes you’ll find SMS_Application, SMS_DeploymentType, and eventually SMS_Content. This last one has the source path for the application content but you’ll soon find out you can’t manipulate this because it is a system class and only allowed to be used by the provider itself.

What you need to do is leverage the dlls provided with the AdminConsole. Then you need to understand that information in ConfigMgr is handled completely differently from 2007. That being data is stored in XML format in WMI and SQL to allow for SQL Replication to look after much of the hierarchical and global replication. It is really good and much more efficient but might take a couple of attempts to get used to. Also the content source is defined on the Deployment Type object.

To alter Applications, in particular something like the source path, you need to connect to the Application class, the instance and then deserialize the XML data. Then you can edit this information, serialize it and inject it back into the WMI object.

I am assuming Powershell and that the Admin Console is installed on the machine running the script.
First of all get your ConfigMgr assemblies into your script:
#import assemblies
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin\Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.dll”)
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin\Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.Extender.dll”)
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin\Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.MsiInstaller.dll”)

#Specify your site server and sitecode:
$server = “configmgr01”
$code = “001”

#Get the applications (i’m only doing the latest version here):
#gwmi -ComputerName $server -Namespace root\sms\site_$code -class sms_application | ?{$_.IsLatest -eq $true}

#Either save this an object or loop on the fly, i’m looping on the fly:

gwmi -ComputerName $server -Namespace root\sms\site_$code -class sms_application | ?{$_.IsLatest -eq $true} | %{
#get the instance of the application
$app = [wmi]$_.__PATH
#deserialize the XML data
$appXML = [Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.Serialization.SccmSerializer]::DeserializeFromString($app.SDMPackageXML,$true)
#loop through the deployment types
foreach($dt in $appXML.DeploymentTypes){
#find the installer element of the XML
$installer = $dt.Installer
#the content for each installer is stored as an single element array
$content = $installer.Contents[0]
“Current Path: ” + $content.Location
#use a regular expression to modify the existing path to your new location
$newPath = $content.Location -replace ‘\\\\domain.loc\\unc\\share’,’\\namespace.loc\dfs’
“New Path : ” + $newPath
if($newPath -ne $content.Location){
“Setting new path”
#this creates a new instance of content which will overwrite the older, this works cleaner than modifying the existing content path
#modifying existing tends to corrupt the data
$newContent = [Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.ContentImporter]::CreateContentFromFolder($newPath)
$newContent.FallbackToUnprotectedDP = $true
$newContent.OnFastNetwork = [Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.ContentHandlingMode]::Download
$newContent.OnSlowNetwork = [Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.ContentHandlingMode]::Download
$newContent.PeerCache = $false
$newContent.PinOnClient = $false
#set the content ID to the new content information you have created
$installer.Contents[0].ID = $newContent.ID
#inject the new data into the deserialized XML data
$installer.Contents[0] = $newContent
}
}
#reserialize the XML
$updatedXML = [Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ApplicationManagement.Serialization.SccmSerializer]::SerializeToString($appXML, $true)
#add the serialized XML data to the application object
$app.SDMPackageXML = $updatedXML
#put the changes to the instance
$app.Put()
}

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