Unable to create application in SCCM 2012

I would suggest wrapping the MSI into a self extracting archive using WinRAR and in the SFX options under advanced tell the SFX archive to run the msiexec command string after extraction. This will turn your application type from MSI to Script in SCCM but it will basically mean SCCM will only need to run the EXE archive rather than the MSI with all the properties.

The other option is to download something like InstEdit or Orca and create an MST file containing all the custom properties in the property table.

e.g. some common properties are things like this:

msiexec /i file.msi /qn /norestart ALLUSERS=1 ADDLOCAL=all PIDKEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX LSHOST=0.0.0.0 LICENSETYPE=Network CUSTOMPROPERTY1=John CUSTOMPROPERTY2=Smith

Now the above command should work as it doesn't seem all that long but you could create LSHOST, PIDKEY, LICENSETYPE, CUSTOMPROPERTY1 and CUSTOMPROPERTY2 as properties in the MST property table and use a shorter command like this:

msiexec /i file.msi /qn /norestart TRANSFORMS=file.mst ALLUSERS=1 ADDLOCAL=all

Both methods should be useful and I suppose to "correct" way to do it is to create the transform file.

The solution was rather simple still not documented anywhere!

You have to set the the availability time of the deployment to 12 hours in the past and it will work.

Thanks Microsoft Moderator guy Jason!