What is "retired" used for ?

Question

_{Tuesday, September 11, 2012 8:46 AM}

Hello,

I've tried to retire an application in SCCM 2012. I expected that the retired application will be removed from the clients but nothing happened.

I'm still able to uninstall / install the application from the software center.

Do I have to remove the deployment type install before that the application gets uninstalled ?

Can someone explain ?

Regards,

Michel

All replies (5)

_{Tuesday, September 11, 2012 8:57 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

It will not remove the app, that is only done by using the Uninstall deployment. When you retire an application you are sending a signal to the other CM12 administrators saying that this app is no longer available and will be deleted in the near future.

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_{Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:08 AM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

When you retire an application, it is no longer available for deployment but the application and any deployments of the application are not deleted. Existing copies of this application that have been installed on client computers will not be removed. If an application that has no deployments is retired, it will be deleted from the Configuration Manager console after 60 days. However, any installed copies of the application are not removed.

Secondly
 
To delete an application, you must first retire the application, delete any deployments, remove references to it by other deployments and then delete all of its revisions.

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_{Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:07 PM}

If I Retire an application, will this stop all the active deployments for the application. If not do we have an option to expire the deployments.

Thanks,

Mike.

_{Friday, December 12, 2014 8:19 PM}

"Retire" application does not stop deployments!

In my knowledge, it does NOTHING, its useless feature.

- Meitzi [MCITP]

_{Friday, February 27, 2015 9:19 AM}

"Retire" application does not stop deployments!

In my knowledge, it does NOTHING, its useless feature.

- Meitzi [MCITP]

i have 2012 sp1 cu1 and 'retire' do nothing too. app is still visible in SC and deploy process is working as active. if i want to stop deploy - better to delete deployments collections.

Voytas