Moderated by:Sponsored by: Episode 3: How to identify software suites. e=cm 2 Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum April 26, 2012

SCCM Guru – The Genius Series ( e=cm 2 ) ConfigMgr Inventory Pain Points Reminder from previous weeks How to identify software suites Use case: ROI 10,000 machines Wrap-up and !Contest! Agenda 2

ConfigMgr 2007 (and CM2012) is pulling in an enormous amount of inventory data (it does it’s job) Sifting through data and applying proper categories and taxonomies is time consuming and costly Piecing the right information together is near impossible –Hardware revision/level/age, Software and Software Suites, Patches, Operating System, True-ups, Windows 7 migrations Analogy of the week: –MMS 2012 On-Demand Sessions ConfigMgr Pain Points Data Confusion

From Data to Information 1 Machine - Machine Name: ACME480, Machine ID: 480, Serial Number: 3Z8UCB1, OS: Windows XP 4

How to identify software from Add/Remove’s and EXE’s. –Step 1: Classify –Step 2: Identify –Step 3: De-dupe Last week

A suite is composed of multiple products A product can be installed as a stand-alone or as a part of a suite Private Suite – e.g. Office (Word, Access) Suite components differ between –Editions Adobe Flash is in Creative Suite Design Premium but not in Design Standard –Versions Microsoft Live Meeting and Picture Manager are in Office Home and Student 2007 but not in 2010 Suite Definition

Use cases #1: Add/Remove & Exe –Microsoft Office #2: Add/Remove only –Adobe Creative Suite Manual Suite Identification

Microsoft Office - Identify PublisherDisplay NameVersionManufacturerSoftwareMinor VersionMajor VersionEdition Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Office Professional Plus MicrosoftOffice142010Professional Plus Microsoft Office Add/Remove Microsoft Office Products Exe Company NameFile NameFile VersionManufacturerSoftwareMinor VersionMajor VersionEdition Microsoft CorporationPOWERPNT.EXE MicrosoftPowerPoint Microsoft CorporationEXCEL.EXE MicrosoftExcel Microsoft CorporationOUTLOOK.EXE MicrosoftOutlook Microsoft CorporationWINWORD.EXE MicrosoftWord Microsoft CorporationGROOVE.EXE Microsoft SharePoint Workspace142010

Microsoft Office - Suite Suite - ManufacturerSuite NameSuite Minor versionSuite Major versionSuite Edition MicrosoftOffice142010Professional Plus ManufacturerSoftwareMinor VersionMajor VersionEdition MicrosoftPowerPoint MicrosoftExcel MicrosoftOutlook MicrosoftWord Microsoft SharePoint Workspace Microsoft Office 2010 professional Plus The products below have been installed with the suite The products below have not been installed with the suite ManufacturerSoftwareMinor VersionMajor VersionEdition MicrosoftCommunicator MicrosoftAccess MicrosoftInfopath MicrosoftOneNote MicrosoftPublisher142010

Adobe Creative Suite - identify PublisherDisplay NameVersionManufacturerSoftwareMinor VersionMajor VersionEdition Adobe Systems, IncAdobe InDesign CS57Adobe SystemsInDesign7CS5 Adobe Systems, IncAdobe Photoshop CS512Adobe SystemsPhotoshop12CS5 Adobe Systems, IncAdobe Flash Professional CS511Adobe SystemsFlash11CS5Professional Adobe Systems, IncAdobe Illustrator CS515Adobe SystemsIllustrator15CS5 Adobe Systems, IncAdobe Flash Catalyst CS51Adobe SystemsFlash Catalyst1CS5 Adobe Systems, IncAdobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium 5Adobe SystemsCreative Suite5CS5Design Premium Adobe Add/Remove

Adobe Creative Suite - Suite Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Design Premium The products below have been installed with the suite The products below have not been installed with the suite Suite - ManufacturerSuite NameSuite Minor versionSuite Major versionSuite Edition Adobe SystemsCreative Suite5CS5Design Premium ManufacturerSoftwareMinor VersionMajor VersionEdition Adobe SystemsInDesign7CS5 Adobe SystemsPhotoshop12CS5 Adobe SystemsFlash11CS5Professional Adobe SystemsIllustrator15CS5 Adobe SystemsFlash Catalyst1CS5 ManufacturerSoftwareMinor VersionMajor VersionEdition Adobe Systems Device Central3CS5 Adobe Systems Dreamweaver11CS5 Adobe Systems Bridge4CS5 Adobe Systems Fireworks11CS5 Adobe Systems Acrobat99Pro

Keep the catalog up-to-date Suites definition differ from vendors Re-Packaging Not all components are installed Challenges

Normalize –Classify, Identify, De-dupe Normalize CM: 2 functions Synchronize –Daily Catalog refresh, Gap Fill Process

Number of Suites –Total: 1,500 suites –By Vendor Microsoft Office: 42 suites Adobe Creative Suite: 26 suites IBM: 152 suites Oracle: 136 suites Symantec: 55 suites Normalize CM: Technopedia

BDNA Normalize CM Hardware and software inventory data Normalized hardware and software information 15

Use case: ROI 10,000 machines 16

April 12 th How to identify software from Add/Removes and EXEs. April 26 th How to identify software suites. May 3 rd How to get ready for Windows 7 migration. May 10 th How to use SCCM to collect Microsoft SQL Server Editions, Oracle applications, and many more. The Genius Series - bdna.com/genius 17

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