WORKSPACE MANAGER SSB4 INSTALL

With that in mind you’d be correct in asking, “wouldn’t it be a great idea if RES Workspace Manager could integrate with Configuration Manager?” This would bring context awareness to application installs as well as delivering these applications “Just-In-Time,” i.e. Those of you reading this blog post will hopefully already understand that RES Workspace Manager has been built around this ethos from before the dinosaurs (not quite, but you get my point). Configuration Manager does now try and address this short coming by introducing the new “Applications” feature and “Rules”, but its limited in what it can do. By context I mean Who they are, What type of device they are using, Where they are located and When they initiated the installation.

Now this is all fine and dandy but there is no context awareness behind these deployment mechanisms.

when the user requests them or in a mandatory fashion say when a new version of Microsoft Office is rolled out. These applications can be targeted at devices or users and installed when required, i.e.

WORKSPACE MANAGER SSB4 INSTALL

One thing I will say is that “simplicity” is not something I’d ever use to describe Configuration Manager! Enough of the drivel lets get on with the real reason for this post.Ĭonfiguration Manager is used by many customers as a software delivery tool to deploy and install applications across their organisation. The first thing I’d like to point out is why anyone would prefer to use Configuration Manager over RES Automation Manager is beyond me, but that’s probably left for another blog post. This blog contains the ramblings of a man who has just installed System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 in our RES Demo Showcase, to show how the integration works with RES Workspace Manager 2012.

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