Adding A Software Resource To The Software Portal - Symantec ALTIRIS 7.0 SP2 - MANAGEMENT SOLUTION Manual

Adding a software resource to the Software Portal

Selecting the software to publish
Defining the users who are allowed to request that software
Specifying whether a user needs approval to install that software
You can publish software to the
Software resource
Managed Software
Delivery policy
(Windows and Mac OS only)
You can add (publish) a software resource to the Software Portal to deliver a single
piece of software with minimum configuration. When you publish a software
resource, a Quick Delivery task is created. After a software request is approved,
the Quick Delivery task runs and installs the software on the user s computer as
soon as possible.
See "About quick delivery of a single software resource"
When a software resource is published to the Software Portal, its publishing
settings are saved in the Software Catalog as a reference to the software resource.
You cannot delete a software resource from the Software Catalog if references
are associated with that software resource. To ensure that you can delete the
software resource, you must delete its references first.
See "About deleting a published software resource"
Warning: Currently, you can publish any deliverable software resource to the
Software Portal and it appears in the portal s list of available software. However,
if a software request does not have a command line, it cannot be requested and a
message appears when someone tries to do so.
Adding a software resource to the Software Portal
Software Portal
Publish a software resource to the Software Portal to deliver a
single piece of software with minimum configuration. Most
organizations can publish the majority of software in this way.
See "Adding a software resource to the Software Portal"
on page 177.
Publish a Managed Software Delivery policy to the Software
Portal to deliver one or more software resources with complex
delivery requirements.
See "Adding a Managed Software Delivery policy to the Software
Portal" on page 179.
See "About advanced software deliveries"
Setting up the Software Portal
in the following ways:
on page 96.
on page 131.
on page 178.
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