SCCM 2012 report/data for importing software metering rules..

Hi, 

I have a customer who would like to start using software metering. The plan is to create the rules manually, since I guess it would be overkill and/or have an huge performance impact to enable it for all...? We might be talking about 100-300 applications.

To do it manually, a powershell script can be used for creating these based on a txt file containing the following information.

Productname,  FileName,  OrginalFileName,  FileVersion

The customer has then asked for a report/csv file showing these information for all .exe files, so they can pick what they want to have metered. The data amount will for sure be huge and unmanageable.

Anyone has a good approach for this challenge? :-)

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

Thomas

March 19th, 2015 6:07am

The approach is to say NO, what they are asking for is huge in the range of 100,000 different exes, there is no way anyone will go the list. Instead, look at the build in report for count of installed software products and sort from largest count to smallest. Then create SWM rules for those applications that have a cost and not everyone has. Aka why would you crate a SWM rule for WORD or EXCEL? But it does make sense to create a rule for Visio or AutoCAD.

Also why create a rule for two different version of Visio? Do you need it, why? Are you sure?

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March 19th, 2015 6:26am

Hi Garth,

VERY good answer, thanks!

/Thomas

March 19th, 2015 8:34am

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