SoftwareCentral 5.7 release - What's new!?

What’s new in SoftwareCentral 5.7?

To start with, this blog will not show all new changes, but the once that I thought would be great to show you.

AD MODULE

In SoftwareCentral, if you are a customer with the AD module, it will be possible to track the events while the user were granted local administrator permission.

 An example where I granted local admin permission to a test computer. Steam were installed during the lease period.

SoftwareCentral are able to revert the action from within the “Show overview” menu in certain cases. Example: A user created a new account with permissions on the local computer.

All software installed during the period will show. 

Note: that software installed via SCCM also will show as the data will be read from WMI.

Changes of interface for a better overview

 New tabs added which give a much smoother overview of the process.

DEPLOYMENT MANAGER

This function helps support / help desk to be more productive and solve issues by themselves.

In the deployment manager we can deploy software or operating systems more dynamically. 

What is new in this module is the overview

All deployments can be tracked by this overview without having to go to the config mgr console and monitor tab.

If we open a view to see further information

Based on the error SoftwareCentral will suggest what to do

SOFTWARE SELF SERVICE

Added a better overview to where the package / application are visible.

You can assign software based on collection membership or AD group membership. When assigning to collections this includes device collections and can be a very good idea to use in a migration project from Windows 7 to Windows 10, as software only available for Windows 10 and vice versa will be available for the end user.

The software shown are available for Domain users which typically all users of an Active Directory will be in.

Enhanced search possibility makes it better for the end-user if typo errors sneak in.