Growing IT structures lead to a constant increase in demand for software applications. In addition to standard software(e.g. office software) and operating systems, many business sectors need their own business specific software applications. Furthermore, many companies don't allow users to install software themselves. This leads to a considerable effort for software installations and maintenance. The answer is a centralized and automated Software Deployment. DeskCenter offers a very flexible solution for deploying software in your organization with fully automated installation, configuration and maintenance. You will benefit from low maintenance requirement and the smooth and reliable operation of your PCs, servers and software. You can deploy standard setups, ThinApp and Xenocode packages and Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages. Thus, you can install and uninstall software and repair installations. MSI also optimizes the version management of software packages.
In order to use Software Deployment you need the
Basic Package
and the module
Software Deployment
The DeskCenter Management Suite supports the most common deployment methods: installation of Microsoft Installer packages, standard setups and drivers over INF files. Different installations can be combined in an installation package. Using system rules, software packages can then be installed, uninstalled or updated. If requirements of systems change or new systems are added, predefined rules are automatically activated to install the contained software. For MSI packages, ThinApp packages and standard setups that are based on MSI (e.g. service packs), a comfortable editor is available that covers all MSI parameters.
If required, installations can be set up time controlled. Users may also influence installations actively if this is wanted. For every installation, the bandwidth can be checked.
All installations can be combined with script actions based on VB Script. Thus it is possible to make configurations on the systems before or after an installation. Scripts can access a large variety of data values from the DeskCenter System Manager through variables. This makes user and location specific installations possible.
For the installation of software packages, the DeskCenter System Manager uses redundant software deployers (network permissions or URL paths). This makes installations to different sites more effective and smaller sites don't need an own server as installation resource. If required, installation resources can be cached on the client PC. Hence, no further access to the software deployer is necessary to install more components of an application.