Hi Cody,
Anytime you see the option to deploy something on the cRIO, it is essentially making it visible to the network, generally seen in Distributed Systems Manager. This is for network published shared variables. These are handled much differently than the Scan Mode I/O of the modules. There is no way to programatically deploy or undeploy these I/O variables. This is because when you put a module into scan mode, it uploads a default personality to the FPGA. This is programed to write to and read from the Scan Engine via the RT OS.
Robert R. | Applications Engineer | National Instruments