I agree, but compared to having a tech visit in person it’s a vast improvement. 
This is really only for one off installs that need to be done infrequently and 
on demand, larger deployments are staged and planned out much better than this.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Sean Pomeroy
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 3:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: App catalog background transfers?

Maybe it's just me, but having an IT staff member remote to a PC to manually 
initiate a software installation kind of defeats the purpose of a system such 
as this.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:28 PM Atkinson, Matt T 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Sure it’s possible, but we would either have to expose the SCCM console to 
desktop support/help desk or rely on them adding AD user accounts to AD groups, 
then keying the collections based off of the group memberships. Kind of a pain 
due to wait times for AD discovery and collection evaluation.

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] 
On Behalf Of Kent, Mark
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 2:35 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] RE: App catalog background transfers?

What about letting the users themselves run it from the app catalog?  You can 
control what they see.  And require approvals as well.

Mark Kent (MCP)
Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer
Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Atkinson, Matt T
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 4:56 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] App catalog background transfers?

Coming up against a problem while we are getting our service desk folks up to 
speed with deploying software using SCCM 2012. Our original plan was to have 
the tech connect remotely to the machine, login, launch the app catalog with 
their credentials and start an install from the catalog. Then log out, let the 
user log back in and continue working while the application finishes 
downloading.

This isn’t working in practice, as soon as the tech logs out, the BITS transfer 
gets queued and won’t resume until the technician is logged in again. Is there 
any way to work around this? It’s been frustrating running against a wall 
trying to get a way to let our desktop support folks to install apps for users. 
Deploying directly to the user accounts or computers themselves would obviously 
work, but not desirable from our leadership.

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