ConfigMgr Tab

App Portal 2021 R1

You specify System Center Configuration Manager (current branch) settings on the Deployment > ConfigMgr subtab of the Settings view, which is opened by selecting Settings under Site Management on the Admin tab.

Settings > Deployment View / ConfigMgr Tab

The ConfigMgr subtab includes the following properties:

Settings > Deployment View / ConfigMgr Tab

Property

Description

Central Site Server

Enter the machine name of the System Center Configuration Manager (current branch) server.

Central Site Database Server

Enter the machine name where the System Center Configuration Manager (current branch) server database resides.

Central Site Database Name

Enter the database name of the System Center Configuration Manager (current branch) server database.

Central Site Code

Defines the Central Site Code (in SITE_XXX format).

Limiting Collection For Device

By default, when creating a collection for a catalog item, App Portal uses “All System” as the limiting collection for device-based deployments. If you instead want to specify which limiting collection to use, enter a collection name in this field to set as the limiting collection ID for all device-based collections created by App Portal for device-based deployments.

Limiting Collection For User

By default, when creating a collection for a catalog item, App Portal uses “All Users as the limiting collection for user-based deployments. If you instead want to specify which limiting collection to use, enter a collection name in this field to set as the limiting collection ID for all user-based collections created by App Portal for user-based deployments.

Test

Click to test the connection settings that are entered. If the test is successful, the message [SERVER_NAME] settings are valid appears.

Enable workstation verification?

Enables/disables the actions in the Select verification level list. Users matching one of the specified attributes will not be required to accept the EULA.

Depending on the User / Computer relationship, this will be the last user inventoried or the most logged on user.

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Select verification level—Tells App Portal how to handle users who visit from machines that were not originally registered with App Portal. Select one of the following options:

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Warning—Users will be prompted with a notification that they are not using the discovered machine.

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Disallowed—Users will not be able to visit the App Portal Storefront from other machines.

Important:This field is disabled when the User / Computer relationship field is set to Use SCCM last logon user.

User / Computer relationship

Specify the user/computer relationship that App Portal needs to use by selecting one of the following options:

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Use SCCM last logon user—The user to computer relationship will use SMS last logon user.

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Use SCCM Primary Console Usage—Makes use of the System Center Configuration Manager / SMS SP3 feature of tracking login duration to determine primary machine usage

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Use AD Computer Managed By—Uses the AD Computer object "Managed By" attribute to determine the primary user of the computer. This setting requires inventory of the "ManagedBy" AD attribute in System Center Configuration Manager System Discovery.

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Use User Affinity—In System Center Configuration Manager (current branch), you can directly define the users for a computer and the computers for a user. The option could also be referred to as “Use System Center Configuration Manager user and device assignment”.

Note:When workstation verification is enabled, the user’s current computer is checked against System Center Configuration Manager to determine if this device is their primary device. Therefore, the Use SCCM last logon user is not available for workstation verification because it is not as accurate as the other methods.

Reporting Path

The full HTTP path to the System Center Configuration Manager reporting URL, including the trailing backslash. When not specified, the standard format will be used:

http://<server>/sccmreporting_<site _code>/

Use v_ClassicDeploymentAssetDetails to get package deployment status

If status updates for packages and task sequences are not getting updated in your environment, select this option to instruct App Portal to obtain the deployment status from an alternate view in System Center Configuration Manager.

Validate available DP for software requests

App Portal can impersonate a client location request for content to ensure that the computer will have access to the System Center Configuration Manager content when a request is submitted. Disabling this option may cause a request to stall in “Waiting for Content” state if the content is not available for the computer. May require the registration (Regsvr32) of the smsmsgapi.dll in Web\Bin.

Use Central Site for All Deployments

All deployments will be generated from the central site as opposed to using each primary site.

In some cases you may elect to do all your deployments from the Central Site instead of using each primary site. App Portal manages all the collections at each primary site, however if you still wish to use the Central site for all deployments select this option. Your deployment times will be subject to intra-site replication delays.

Client polling interval

Enter the client polling interval of the System Center Configuration Manager client. This value is used to calculate date and time data for email messages when explaining when a request should begin no later than.

MDT Database Name

If Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is installed on the Central Administration Site (CAS) server, enter the database name here (such as MDT) to obtain the list of supported MDT variables for OSD.

User Computer Relationship View

Specify the System Center Configuration Manager view to use to read the user/computer relationship. Possible values are:

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v_UserMachineRelationship

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vUsersPrimaryMachines

Use SCCM server for machine policy refresh

When a user requests software, his machine is added to a catalog-item specific collection in System Center Configuration Manager (current branch). By default, this list only refreshes once per hour. If you select this option, System Center Configuration Manager (current branch) will trigger a policy refresh on desktop machines.

Enable Collection Cleanup on Failure

If this setting is selected, upon deployment failure, App Portal will remove the device from the collection.

Enable selection of existing collection when creating/editing a catalog while creating/editing a catalog which in turn supports "Approve application

[Supports "Approve application requests for user per device" in ConfigMgr]

If this setting is selected, Admin can select existing collections from ConfigMgr while creating/editing a catalog which in turn supports Approve application requests for user per device capability of ConfigMgr. App Portal in backend will use the selected collection and creates an assignment for a given application.

When a request is placed or after the approvals if any, are completed for such Catalogs by the end user, App Portal will create an approved request in ConfigMgr and auto approves it so that, the deployment will take place immediately.

Other prerequisites

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Configuration Manager version 1802 or above.

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Approve application requests for users per device feature should be turned on in Configuration Manager

Success Status IDs

Identifies the status IDs from System Center Configuration Manager that constitute a successful installation.

Failure Status IDs

Identifies the status IDs from System Center Configuration Manager that constitute a failed installation.

Program Collection Cleanup Status IDs

Identifies the status IDs from System Center Configuration Manager where App Portal should remove the machine from the collection for requests that have Enable Collection Clean-up enabled.

Enable Rerun Advertisement for Status IDs

Identifies the status IDs from System Center Configuration Manager where App Portal should allow an advertisement to be rerun for requests that Enable Rerun is enabled.