How to get ZCM to deploy and run an exe without a network shares?

I want to just give the file to a ZCM bundle, tell it where to put it (c:\temp) and then run it.  All without worrying about where the workstation is? (is it in the office, connected by VPN, or totally out there without access to any other internal system except for the ZCM Appliance?)  It should be a simple thing, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. Even with the simple application bundle.

ZCM is not liking a source file of,
10.x.x.x/.../nipp-s.exe
  but is insisting on a very limited range of URIs (is only NCP or CIFS the only options?)

my local drives are not available to the rest of the workstations, and mapped drives (NCP) are only available some of the time to the users, and certainly not when running elevated rights for the installation, so we can not rely on them. Some users/systems never map drives, but still need to print to the office (via VPN of course).

ZCM 24.2 appliance, with a mix of 23.4 and 24.2 agents installed on Windows 11(with a few Windows 10 left.. (PC techs rolling out with old code, some smacking has occurred)
No Windows shares, only OES 24.3 NCP mappings.
Upgrades scheduled for the Xmas break, having missed our Canadian Thanks Giving window. 

Am I missing something obvious, or does some of the words used have very specific and not obvious to me what they mean?  English vs ZCMisms?

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    Likely i don't understand the problem, but i'd start with an "install directory" action in the "install" section followed by "launch executable" under "launch".

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    If it's an EXE that you want to install - for example the iPrint Client you have shown above - you should use the "Install Executable" action in your bundle. That uploads the EXE file to ZENworks and the server will deal with distributing it during the install.

    If it is just an EXE that needs to run then use the "Install File(s)" action to copy it to the machine, and then use the "Launch Executable" action to run it.

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    Either option or   will work in your case.

    1. If it's an installer, and it's a single exe, use the Install executable as Mathias mentioned under Install Action.

    2. If it's a standalone exe, you can also use the install executable under the Launch, so you can update it in zenworks content store if necessary, and zen agent will cache it.  Caveat to note, go into the options under Install or Launch for run once and disable.  If you don't disable the default, it will only run one time then user will think it's broken next time unless you have them always right click and repair.

    Rodney

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    Found out what was tripping me up as that was what I was doing.

    A Windows update that ZPM thinks it needs, but keeps hanging up, Windows Updates don't think it is needed, and it is getting in the way until I manually removed my test station from it being applied.

    If this isn't a problem on the other systems, several others should show as being updated tomorrow, and if so I can roll out to all while also trying to dig into this odd issue as I see evidence of it happening on other systems.  sigh

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