WIN7 Enterprise + Run Advertised Programmes

magicroundabout

magicroundabout

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I'm no IT wizzard and just trying to help our new IT guys out so appologies if what i'm writitng doesn't make sense.

Basically the company i work for are prodominantly running XP and within control panel we have "run advertised programmes" where the IT dept can place programmes for us employees to instal. AutoCAD, MX, Vissim, Paramics etc etc.

My machine has recently been upgraded to Win7 and now the IT guys are unsure how to impliment the "run advertised programmes" on my machine.

Can someone please help get this sorted as the IT dept are looking to upgrade the whole company to Win7 but can't roll it out without not knowing how to get this feature installed and working.

any help would be appreciated
 
Well that option is part of either Microsoft SMS or SCCM, depending on what you've got running.

So firstly have they installed the SMS/SCCM client onto your machine?

Is it a case of the option is there but nothing appears?

I'll just fire up my Win 7 test machine now
 
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thanks for the reply.

looking at installed programmes it appears neither of those two programmes are installed
Also the option isn't there either.

this is all i have installed so far

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Ok, you need to speak to your IT admins in charge of the system.

Your company will either be running Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS), or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM).

The people who look after that system will be able to push the client out to you. They also need to make sure any Programs within the system are set to be allowed to run on Windows 7 (you can restrict what OSs a package will run on).

However I'd be worried if your 'IT Guys' don't know about this!
 
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it's cos they're all new.

we migrated offices from Lichfield into Central Birmingham and the whole IT dept handed in their notice and left at the same time.

the new guys have only been here a month and are still finding their feet.

i'll pop over to them and let them know what it is they need.
 
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it's cos they're all new.

we migrated offices from Lichfield into Central Birmingham and the whole IT dept handed in their notice and left at the same time.

the new guys have only been here a month and are still finding their feet.

i'll pop over to them and let them know what it is they need.
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This is the reason why everything should be documented properly!
 
spoke to IT and they have pushed the client through already it's just not coming through to my machine.

apparently it has worked already on another Win7 machine just not mine.

do you think SP2 will sort this?
 
If it's worked on another win7 machine then no sp2 will not do anything. More likely ot be a configuration issue with site boundaries or something in that case.

SP2 provides support in the client list but *think* you can still get it to work on a 7 machine prior to SP2, just you don't get some options. I could be wrong though.

For SMS you need the compatibility pack installing but it will then work with Windows 7.

Get an admin to try installing the client manually.

Log on to your machine as admin, browse to the SCCM server, there will be a share called SMSClient or something.

Run ccmsetup.exe from that folder to manually install it.
 
You can troubleshoot the install, if it's even hitting your pc then there will be a folder in the system32 dir called ccmsetup with some log files in to check.

If it's not even hitting your pc then they will need to go check the server log that contains the client push info. Think it's ccm.log, forget off the top of my head which log contains this info :p
 
i've got run advertised programmes now on my machine. just running the config manager to update software to download as run advertised programmes was empty.

fingers crossed it works.
 
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