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Software Deployment and Update Overview
Software Deployment and Update (KSDU) automates the deployment and updating of software on managed Windows machines. Deploying, updating and managing software is a required yet time consuming process for any IT professional. Without the ability to manage by policy, trying to stay in compliance with organizational and external regulatory requirements becomes a nightmare. Software Deployment and Update removes that burden by providing IT professionals with the ability to completely automate the deployment and update process of software on a scheduled basis across multiple domains and remote computers.
A comprehensive Software Catalog and user-defined profiles enable you to quickly deploy and update software applications to different populations of Windows-based servers, workstations and notebooks. There are no packages to maintain, command-line switches, versions to find, files to track. This is all maintained automatically within the Software Catalog.
The Software Deployment and Update module:
- Provides a Master Catalog of popular software titles and versions, already configured for silent installs.
- Organizes and deploys software titles and versions using a local Software Catalog that you control.
- Supports the creation of custom installers.
- Deploys and updates by software title and version on a recurring schedule.
- Uses profiles to deploy and update bundles of software titles by policy, to different populations of assigned machines.
- Can assign profiles by machine group, organization or view.
- Can run pre-install and post-install agent procedures.
- Supports both auto approval and manual approval when a new version is available.
- Scans machines on a recurring basis for software and version profile compliance.
- Provides alerts, dashboards, status views, reports and logs to monitor software deployment and update activities.
- Designates a machine to act as a file source for downloaded files for other machines on the same LAN.
Note: See Software Deployment and Update System Requirements.
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Illustrates the stages of configuring and operating Software Deployment and Update, with links to the relevant pages and to online help. |
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Provides a dashboard view of Software Deployment and Update activities. |
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Displays a sortable, filterable table of every software title and version installed on every machine managed by Software Deployment and Update. |
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Reschedules tasks on Software Deployment and Update managed machines. |
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Identifies the software titles that are in compliance or out of compliance for a selected machine. |
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Identifies the machines that are in compliance or out of compliance for a selected software title. |
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Approves the deployment of selected software to selected profiles. |
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Manually deploys software to machines, by selected machine. |
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Manually deploys software to machines, by selected software title. |
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Specifies the software titles and versions to be deployed to machines by named profile. |
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Assigns profiles to machines. |
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Assigns machines to profiles. |
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Defines a local Software Catalog by selecting software titles and versions from a Master Catalog. Optionally creates custom installers. |
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Sets defaults and other settings that apply to the entire module. |
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Specifies the actions taken in response to Software Deployment and Update alert conditions. |
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Determines the reboot action, by machine, if an installer requires a reboot. |
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Provides a easy-to-use, interactive checklist for configuring Software Deployment and Update quickly. |
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Designates a machine to act as a file source for downloaded files for other machines on the same LAN. |
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Assigns machines to a designated file source machine. |
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Displays a log of Software Deployment and Update module activity. |
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