@Kelly said in Software Catalog:

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do.

Just to be clear, I'm not as concerned about the deployment side of things (yet). Do how much is opsi and SCCM: Software Center oriented around end users and how much around administration? I know it should be part of the fabric. I'm just trying to modernize some processes that have been enshrined in the halls of familiarity, and this is the first step for us.

Software Center is almost 100% end user oriented. If you are looking to automate this without hands you wouldn't even expose the interface. I think Opsi is the opposite. I don't think, if I recall, it has any real means for the end users to request applications outside of a really bad web interface... even then I may be mistaken.

For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do.

@notverypunny said in Software Catalog:

Maybe I'm overthinking things but your approval / licensing process is going to come into play on this.

I'll be perfectly honest that I've not had to admin / oversee the app management side of SCCM, but in a previous gig I was doing helpdesk and deskside in an SCCM environment. In that environment the user wasn't able to view / install a managed application until they were added to the appropriate security group in AD. So the request / approval part was done via helpdesk ticketing, not an SCCM catalog. If you're licensing the target applications for everyone or if controlling access isn't a concern then I could see SCCM working.

You can do this either way. You can do this out-of-band like you describe. You can also do this in-band by deploying an application with approval. When the end user finds it in software center they click the "Request Software" (or whatever is says) button and that sends an alert to ConfigMgr (and an email if it is configured). An approval admin would then go through and approve/deny requests. It's a decent process but ConfigMgr can be very slow at times.

@Kelly said in Software Catalog:

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

@Kelly said in Software Catalog:

This might be out of scope for what you all have to deal with, but I'm trying to corral a software environment (municipality with ~2000 users). Have any of you used a software package (doesn't have to be free) to provide users with a catalog so that they can go to a central web page and put in a need and identify a supported and licensed (by IT) piece of software that could meet that? I know the ask on this is high, but I figured I'd toss it out here.

SCCM can do this. It actually does a really good job. The other one is VMware Workspace One but I think that does some app virtualization as well.

SCCM can present an end user interface? We do have Workspace One. I haven't dug into it yet because we were grandfathered in as Airwatch customers.

Yep, Software Center. It's a really good tool not just for what your describing but also for application deployment troubleshooting.

@Kelly said in Software Catalog:

This might be out of scope for what you all have to deal with, but I'm trying to corral a software environment (municipality with ~2000 users). Have any of you used a software package (doesn't have to be free) to provide users with a catalog so that they can go to a central web page and put in a need and identify a supported and licensed (by IT) piece of software that could meet that? I know the ask on this is high, but I figured I'd toss it out here.

SCCM can do this. It actually does a really good job. The other one is VMware Workspace One but I think that does some app virtualization as well.

@notverypunny said in What Are You Watching Now:

Just finished Good Omens yesterday. Worth watching, just not sure if / how they could do a second season. I'm tempted to read the book just to see what was changed.

Worth reading the book. It is one of my favorites.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

How Much Would You Spend on Streaming Services Per Month?

A PCMag survey of 1,001 US streaming subscribers found that customers would pay an average of $33 per month for all their streaming services combined. From Apple TV+ and Disney+ to HBO Max, there will soon be more apps competing for that budget than ever
The next wave of video streaming services will crest in November with the launches of Disney+ and Apple TV+, and consumers will the faced with the first of many decisions over which apps are worth devoting another another couple bucks each month to streaming content. PCMag recently surveyed 1,001 US consumers who currently use streaming services, the majority of whom said they don't plan on subscribing to any new services, whether Disney and Apple's offerings, HBO Max, or NBCUniversal's forthcoming app. We also polled respondents on how much they'd be willing to pay for streaming content per month, both for an individual service and as a monthly total.

Let's see:
Netflix - $15
Hulu - $13
Disney+ - $4.25
Total = $32.25...

Now that game of thrones is over, I'm not sure I'll ever bother with HBO again, though I could possibly see dumping Netflix for a month, picking up HBO, bing the new show, then reversing it.
Not willing to pay for CBS online - screw that noise!

Just $28 for me, no Disney+. And we use the cheap Hulu option. So I think more like $23.

+10$/month for me for Prime.

I constantly forget about prime, but I have prime for shipping, not because of the shows - I so RARELY watch anything on Amazon.

Same here, we have it already and don't get it for the video, so we don't include it as we don't care.

Prime has good content. I like a lot of their originals. The only thing I don't like is that they lump the shit you have to pay for (rent/buy) in with the included with prime.

I do wish they would make it better to navigate... but I binged two of their series recently, The Boys and Carnival Row, both were phenomenally well done.

OMG, terrible to navigate. They make me want to not use it. Which I suspect is their goal since I don't pay for it for the content.

Yeah must cut their costs down people not actually watching the content.

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

How Much Would You Spend on Streaming Services Per Month?

A PCMag survey of 1,001 US streaming subscribers found that customers would pay an average of $33 per month for all their streaming services combined. From Apple TV+ and Disney+ to HBO Max, there will soon be more apps competing for that budget than ever
The next wave of video streaming services will crest in November with the launches of Disney+ and Apple TV+, and consumers will the faced with the first of many decisions over which apps are worth devoting another another couple bucks each month to streaming content. PCMag recently surveyed 1,001 US consumers who currently use streaming services, the majority of whom said they don't plan on subscribing to any new services, whether Disney and Apple's offerings, HBO Max, or NBCUniversal's forthcoming app. We also polled respondents on how much they'd be willing to pay for streaming content per month, both for an individual service and as a monthly total.

Let's see:
Netflix - $15
Hulu - $13
Disney+ - $4.25
Total = $32.25...

Now that game of thrones is over, I'm not sure I'll ever bother with HBO again, though I could possibly see dumping Netflix for a month, picking up HBO, bing the new show, then reversing it.
Not willing to pay for CBS online - screw that noise!

Just $28 for me, no Disney+. And we use the cheap Hulu option. So I think more like $23.

+10$/month for me for Prime.

I constantly forget about prime, but I have prime for shipping, not because of the shows - I so RARELY watch anything on Amazon.

Same here, we have it already and don't get it for the video, so we don't include it as we don't care.

Prime has good content. I like a lot of their originals. The only thing I don't like is that they lump the shit you have to pay for (rent/buy) in with the included with prime.

I do wish they would make it better to navigate... but I binged two of their series recently, The Boys and Carnival Row, both were phenomenally well done.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

How Much Would You Spend on Streaming Services Per Month?

A PCMag survey of 1,001 US streaming subscribers found that customers would pay an average of $33 per month for all their streaming services combined. From Apple TV+ and Disney+ to HBO Max, there will soon be more apps competing for that budget than ever
The next wave of video streaming services will crest in November with the launches of Disney+ and Apple TV+, and consumers will the faced with the first of many decisions over which apps are worth devoting another another couple bucks each month to streaming content. PCMag recently surveyed 1,001 US consumers who currently use streaming services, the majority of whom said they don't plan on subscribing to any new services, whether Disney and Apple's offerings, HBO Max, or NBCUniversal's forthcoming app. We also polled respondents on how much they'd be willing to pay for streaming content per month, both for an individual service and as a monthly total.

Let's see:
Netflix - $15
Hulu - $13
Disney+ - $4.25
Total = $32.25...

Now that game of thrones is over, I'm not sure I'll ever bother with HBO again, though I could possibly see dumping Netflix for a month, picking up HBO, bing the new show, then reversing it.
Not willing to pay for CBS online - screw that noise!

Just $28 for me, no Disney+. And we use the cheap Hulu option. So I think more like $23.

+10$/month for me for Prime.

Finished Carnival Row last night. The show has some really good potential and Season 1 was really good. Can't wait for Season 2.

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Getting ready to kick off a new custom campaign using The Burning Wheel system as the basis.

I have all of those books and really like the conflict resolution mechanism. I've never played it though.

Could also be a permissions issue on the folders/locations that are referenced.

Did you ensure the Group Policy client was enabled and started on the workstation you are testing on?

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just signed a litter accepting a promotion effective 9/22. Not bad for a Friday

What kind of litter was it?

Hot air balloon festival in a nearby "city".

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installing Hyper-V on Cisco UCS blades.

It's like a dumpster fire in a train wreck.

Can confirm, worked with UCS.... It was a dumpster fire for sure. Bad hardware, bad software.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

OneWeb’s low-Earth satellites hit 400Mbps and 32ms latency in new test

OneWeb's first six satellites pass test as company moves closer to real service.
OneWeb says a test of its low-Earth orbit satellites has delivered broadband speeds of more than 400Mbps with average latency of 32ms.

That is generally the same latency I was getting on my last cable connection to anywhere outside of TWC's network.

@Obsolesce said in Ansible Agent Option?:

@scottalanmiller said in Ansible Agent Option?:

A simple test would be this.... if MDM is the right tool for your laptops, then it would also be the right tool for your servers.

Servers are not mobile devices.

Nor are Desktops but it would be nice to manage them with the same tool. Intune comes to mind it will do some state management and is getting better with time...

@Obsolesce said in Ansible Agent Option?:

Why not have an Ansible server on the same network as the devices and reachable by the Ansible server?

From an MSP perspective that can get pretty inefficient and heavy.

@brandon220 said in AzureAD and shares:

"Cloud" access to them is being able to access files in the browser. They also want to access the same files and folders locally on the LAN. Trying to pick my battles.

OneDrive for Business... if they are already using AzureAD they probably already have a license for it.