Hi,

We have option to hide the required application from SCCM 2012 Software Center Catalogue.

Is there any option to hide available application from SCCM 2012 Software Center Catalogue?

Kindly let me know.

Regards,

Arul Singh.

Hi,

You can select on an Application deployment, User Experience tab, User Notification, there you can select "Hide in Software Center and all notifications" then it will not show up in Software Center.

regards,
Jrgen

Hi Jorgen,

I have already checked when we are selecting the Application deployment as a "Available" under Deployment Settings Tab,the "Hide in Software Center and all notifications" under User Experience tab, User Notification is not visible.

The "Hide in Software Center and all notifications" is visible only when we are selecting the Application deployment as a "Required"

Kindly let me know the suggestions.

Regards,

Arul Singh.

If the deployment is "Available" but is set as "Hidden" - what is the point - nobody can see it in SC to install it... ?

@Arul - Once the app is deployed to the user you do not have the option to Hide in Software Center. If the app is made available then it shows under "Available Software" and if its installed successfully by user it shows up under Installed Software in SC. When you say you are making app "available" to users, it means that the app should be visible in SC else what's the use of setting deployment purpose as Available ?.

Yes I understood,but the thing is we are migrating all the application packages from current HPCA environment to SCCM 2012.The requirement here is existing few "available" packages deployed from HPCA should be hidden in Software center catalogue to avoid the further installation.

Kindly let me know if any questions.

Regards,

Arul Singh.

That is what I am trying to tell you. You can't make an app available to device and at the same time set it to hidden. It doesn't make any sense here.

Workaround -

1) Remove the app from the deployments. Make it available only for the users who actually need and not to everyone.

2) You can configure to prompt users to request approval from an administrator. Once the admin approves, only then the apps can be installed.

If you don't want an app installed, don't deploy it.

Thanks for the update!

Hope my explanation was not clear to you guys.

Our requirement is to hide the existing application from SC which was deployed as "available" to avoid further installation and uninstallation.

Regards,
Arul Singh.

So you want to avoid people from being able to install it again over the same installation ?

if this is the case if you simply add the right detection method in the application it will not be visible if the application is detected. For the uninstall if you don't specifies a uninstall string the option will not be available.

If all you want to do is migrate the application to SCCM 2012 and have it not show to the user simply don' deploy it to the users no way to have something available but hidden.

Jason's reply is still valid then. Don't deploy it (or deploy it to a collection that will contain only clients where you want it to be deployed to).

Yes better don't deploy the app.

May i know what retire an reinstate option does in application ?

Regards,

Arul Singh.

Have you already looked that up in the Technet docs?