Software Center Question
We can advertise any .MSI to "all systems" and workstations can see them in the Software Center.  But when any Package (.exe) is advertised to all systems no one can see it in Software Center.  is that by design?  how do you see packages in the softwa
March 30th, 2015 10:02am

msi vs. exe doesn't create a difference.

in your deployment properties, regardless of what you are deploying, there are choices to be made there; about whether or not that particular deployment should be visible in Software Center.  Look at the properties of the two deployments.

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March 30th, 2015 10:07am

Take a look at this link for a good explanation of what shows in software center and when:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2012/03/31/introducing-the-application-catalog-and-software-center-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx

It comes down to what you are deploying and what type of deployment.  Also look at user experience settings on the program.

Jeff

March 30th, 2015 10:08am

Here are the settings on the Package deployment (.exe)   I do not have any setting that says "allow running on Software Center"  Where is that? 

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March 30th, 2015 11:19am

There is no such setting for packages or package deployments. The blog posted by Jeff explicitly covers this: all packages deployed to computer collections are shown in software center. There's nothing to explicitly check.
March 30th, 2015 11:28am

there is such a setting.  This is from Jeff's link.   this is only available on applications, not packages.  how come? 

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March 30th, 2015 11:47am

Because the application model is completely different from the old package/program paradigm.

Jeff

March 30th, 2015 11:51am

ok.  then how come all Packages we have advertised to all systems don't show up in software center?  Only applications show up. 
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March 30th, 2015 11:55am

You'll have to troubleshoot that as this is not normal.

Have you refreshed the machine policy?

Have you reviewed the logs? Like policyagent.log, policyevaluation.log, and execmgr.log?

March 30th, 2015 12:00pm

For the advertisement of that package, what are your Scheduling settings?  what are your User experience settings?
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March 30th, 2015 1:57pm

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