Concers regarding 'Deploy Software'

JordanB

We recently became a Cireson customer when we purchased ConfigMgr Portal. So far, I like it. But I have some concerns with the 'Deploy Software' option.

We want our desktop support team to be able to deploy software to computers, by either placing them in a specific collection or using the 'Automatically Create Collection on Demand' option. Since it seems you can't add Computers to collections, I'd like to use the 'Automatically Create Collection on Demand' option but don't want it to dump everything under the ROOT folder in SCCM. Is there a way to change the path of where the automatically created collections are stored?

Also, Is there a way to remove the manual option or take away the All Systems / All Workstations / All Servers visibility in this menu? I prefer to not have my desktop support team have the ability to deploy to All Systems.

Thanks!

F_Christiansen

Jordan,

We have just released CMP 2.1 including a new Quick Deployment wizard.
From here you will be able to only select software and the resource (e.g. computer) that should receive the software.
A collection with the name of the software and program/action is created and a deployment is attached to that collection and finally the selected resources are added to that collection.
For the Deployment tab you will have to define deployment templates for the users; this is to help simplifying the deployment process. The deployments options are then limited, but fully controlled by the template.

The standard deployment wizard is still there, you can choose which to make available for your users using RBAC - you can even offer both to choose between.

And for the standard deployment wizard you can now choose not to include built-in collections such as All Systems also using RBAC.

JordanB

This is what I am referring to.

Davis_Mathai

Hi Jordan,
For the first part of the question, yes you can.  Go to Top right > Configuration Manager Settings > Software Library.  Towards the bottom you'll see Collection Settings.  Here you can point the on demand collection creation to a custom folder.  

There isn't currently a way to hide the manual option or hide the out of the box collections that I am aware of.  I'll check internally or someone from our product team may jump on this thread anyway.

Thanks!
Davis

JordanB

Thanks for the reply Davis. Hopefully someone can answer about hiding the manual collection option or limiting it.

F_Christiansen

Hi Jordan, 

Stand by, your wish is about to be granted very soon :-)

Best regards 
Flemming Appelon Christiansen 

F_Christiansen

Jordan,

We have just released CMP 2.1 including a new Quick Deployment wizard.
From here you will be able to only select software and the resource (e.g. computer) that should receive the software.
A collection with the name of the software and program/action is created and a deployment is attached to that collection and finally the selected resources are added to that collection.
For the Deployment tab you will have to define deployment templates for the users; this is to help simplifying the deployment process. The deployments options are then limited, but fully controlled by the template.

The standard deployment wizard is still there, you can choose which to make available for your users using RBAC - you can even offer both to choose between.

And for the standard deployment wizard you can now choose not to include built-in collections such as All Systems also using RBAC.

wally_mead

It looks like Flemming has resolved all your issues Jordan :-) Are you all good now? Keep the feedback and questions coming, we love to hear what people need.