If you want to know how I deployed WMF 3.0 then you will want to read this post.

Update  To deploy WMF 4.0 see my post here.

By default, Windows 7 does not come with Powershell version 3.0 and that’s reason enough to install WMF 3.0 on all of them.

You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=34595

Here’s how I did it using Configuration manager 2012:

  1.  Start by creating a new application and ensure that you select to : Manually specify the application information

  1.  On the next screen, complete the fields as you see fit.  I also chose to allow this application to be installed from the task sequence as this is something I will probably add to my Windows 7 deployment task sequence soon.

  1.  On the Application Catalog screen, fill in as much info as you desire.  Mine is minimalistic as I won’t be making this application available in the catalog but will deploy the end result to a computer collection.

  1.  For the Deployment Type, click the Add button.

  1.  Ensure that you change the Type to ‘Script Installer (Native)’ and that you select ‘Manually specify the deployment type information.’

  1.  Enter some meaningful information to identify this particular deployment type:

  1.  On the Content screen, browse to the location on your config manager server where you have placed the wmf.30 installer, then click the browse button for the installation program:

  1.  Ensure that you select ‘All Files’ from the filter or you won’t see the .msu file!

  1.  Ensure that you complete the installation and uninstall fields as per the following screenshot.  I have chosen to suppress computer restarts so I added /quiet /norestart at the end of both command lines.  Please note the /uninstall switch added to the ‘Uninstall Program’ command line.  (It’s really useful if you decide to uninstall WMF 3.0 for whatever reason!)

  1.  Next up is the detection clause so click on the ‘Add Clause’ button.

  1.  I chose to use the powershell.exe itself as the detection clause as in my tests I noticed that the .exe receives a version change on installation of WMF 3.0 making it a nice and easy method of detection for this installation.

For info, and if you wish to be extra precise, the vanilla powershell.exe on a fully patched Windows 7 has version 6.1.7600.13385 and after WMF 3.0 it has version 6.2.9200.16398.  But don’t take my word for it, take a look yourself!

With that in mind, here’s my detection rule:

  1.  I will be installing this for the system and wish to deploy the finished app regardless of whether a user is logged on or not and I have therefore set my user experience settings to the following:

  1.  We need to add some installation requirements so click the ‘Add’ button on the Requirements screen:

  1.  The particular version of WMF 3.0 that I am deploying is specifically for Win 7 x64.  One of the WMF 3.0 requirements is that SP1 is installed so let’s reflect this here:  (You may wish to season to taste and add disk space reqs or whatever meets your organisational needs etc.)

  1.  Add any software dependencies that you want to ensure are installed first.  In my case I had none but your requirements may differ.

  1.  Check the Summary screen and if you’re happy and you know it click next:

  1.  Hopefully, You have a success message:

  1.  On the Deployment Types screen simply click the Next button:

  1.  Check the Summary screen looks good then click Next:

  1.  And you’re done:

All you need to do now is to upload it to your distribution point and deploy it to either a computer collection or if you really feel the burning need to, make it available in the Application Catalog to your end users.

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