Should ZENworks do the install or just launch the vendor's setup program?
Will the application be used on workstations that don't have the NetWare client installed?
Deciding where to install the application depends on how you want to set up the environment. If all your workstations will be connected to the network, installing the application to a central server is more efficient. A user would have to wait for only a few files to get copied to his workstation in this scenario. ZENworks for Desktops often installs an application faster than the vendor's setup program.
Always use a "clean" workstation with just the base OS for the ZENworks for Desktops snapshot process. If you're running the NetWare client it can be on the workstation, too. The snapshot process captures the application installation, and you can store installation information as a text file, which is then transformed into an application object in eDirectory. That way, you can use the same process on other workstations. Be sure to remove any extra registry settings the snapshot process may have picked up, such as detected registry changes under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer key, which stores things like the Explorer window sizes.
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