Using App Survey to Deploy Applications
Important:App Survey is dependent upon having either a connection to FlexNet Manager Suite or the creation of App Portal inventory records for each application needing to be discovered for the migration process and then associating that inventory record with its associated software catalog item. For more information, see Identifying Existing Applications Using FlexNet Manager Suite or Identifying Existing Applications by Creating App Portal Application Inventory Records.
App Survey is a feature within App Portal that is used to identify the installed applications on a source computer so that they can be selected, and then installed, onto a target computer. It automates the procedure of migrating existing user applications to a new operating system/device.
The App Survey feature uses installation evidence and usage data to detect the installed applications that are installed on a user’s system, and lists the discovered applications on the App Survey tab. After a user selects the applications that they want to migrate on the App Survey tab, the App Portal administrator can automatically migrate those selected applications to the user’s new device.
The App Survey feature does not involve checking out a task sequence catalog item, or any catalog item, on the Browse Catalog tab using the Checkout Wizard. Instead individual catalog item requests are generated from the Deployment Management > App Survey Results view by the App Portal administrator.
Information about using the App Survey feature is presented in the following sections:
| • | Enabling the App Survey Tab |
| • | Enabling Inventory Detection for App Survey |
| • | Identifying Applications to Migrate on the App Survey Tab |
| • | Viewing App Survey Results and Migrating Applications |
| • | Performing Upgrade/Replacement via App Survey Deployment |