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How can I create a chained job in SCCM that installs consecutive package installations ?

We need to have prerequisites of an installation installed before an application is distributed.   How can we make a task sequence in sccm
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Task sequences are only used for OS deployments
In the program properties, if you click the Advanced tab, you should see the following:
Run another program
Here you can specify a package and a program to run first.  I did this for .NET 3.5 SP1 so it would run 2.0 first and then within the 2.0 package, I had it run 1.1 first.
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So you cannot really specify a number of prerequisites for a package,  just 1 ?
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Care to give an example?
@itbabe: In terms of the pre-req check, you can chain them back as far as you want.  So program A can depend on program B and program B on program C, etc.  In that sense, you can chain as many pre-reqs as you want for program A so that it will only execute if B and C fire.
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But How can I impliment the following.
You have 3 applications : A, B and C
A requires on B an C to be installed.
But B does not require C nor does C require B.
I personally don't know of a way to do that with SCCM.  You could repackage the program setup with something like Innosetup (http://www.innosetup.com/) which is free and package the program and the prereqs to run within one EXE file, then fire that EXE which will run both files.
It does appear that you can use task sequences to distribute software outside of OSD:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc431389.aspx
However, this is not listed as a supported scenario in the MOC book I have for SCCM, so perhaps U_Mansson can shed some light on how to use task sequences to distribute packages.
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I think it is possible ,  I found the following info on technet.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680842.aspx
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Thanks for your help !