Newbie questions - application deployment not working

Question

Hi
I'm running SCCM 2012 r2 (no CU's yet but I'm just downloading #4). Everything appears normal for a new setup and there are no errors reporting in any of the status lists. Discovery, boundaries, AD schema has been extended and the System Manager AD container
(and permissions) set up. 
All domain PCs and users are listed in Assets. I have created a device collection to roll out test applications based on membership of an AD security group which has picked up the correct membership for that group (a single computer).
I have created an msi to test application deployment (all it does is drop a test file into the windows folder) and tested that manually installing it with msiexec /i /q options on a test PC.  I have created the application, deployment type and deployment
for the test msi and confirmed that the application has been deployed to the distribution point.
And then... nothing happens.  I've checked the Monitoring\Deployments view and nothing is reported for the application (i.e. after selecting the application I have a grey pie chart with zero for all entries).  I've checked the report "Client
push installation status details" and it reports an error (Last error = 5), 4 retries and  status of "retry" but no details of what's going on (and I can't find any log files which might tell me).
Any assistance would be massively appreciated - despair is setting in!
Thanks in advance
Martin

Answer 1

Definitely check to make sure the client is installed successfully on your test device.  No client, no app deployment :-).  Look for the ccmsetup.log in c:\windows\ccmsetup\logs
Also, if you are using client push to install the client, make sure you ahve a client push account configured and that it has local administrator rights on the devices.  Ensure the Windows Firewall allows WMI and File/Print Sharing also.
Jeff