I often get questions from users saying "is this legit?" referring to the toast/balloon notifications presented on their desktop from Software Center. The notification states "Software changes are required. Your IT department requires changes to the software on your computer. click here for options." This could easily be confused with spoof antivirus popups claiming your computer needs to be fixed!

I would like the ability to customize these notifications in the Administration > Client Settings node > Computer Agent settings. The "Organization name displayed in Software Center" shows on the Title page AFTER you open SC, but it would be great if this would also appear on the toast/balloon notification when new software is required to be installed.

This will help reduce/remove the confusion that this notification could be malicious spyware/adware abusing your trust of system notifications.

We have set policy so that users receive the countdown timer with the HIDE button grayed out. This is to prevent users from clicking Hide, then forgetting about the timer and getting rebooted later in the day.

Users are now moving the countdown timer window off to the edge of the screen as a way around this. Then they forget about it. Get rebooted and open a ticket with the helpdesk. We have over 60K users, and this does generate a significant # of tickets.

Is it possible to prevent the window from moving off the edges of the screen?

I know this sounds silly, but it does generate a surprising # of tickets. Our helpdesk then has to troubleshoot and read the log of each system only to find the user ignored the pop up, yet again!

Notifications:

Reboot notification message for application/package deployments:

when an application or a package requires a reboot, if it is a mandatory deployment, it will show a notification in system tray based on the 'Computer Restart' Client settings.
But, it would be grateful if we have a notification message to show to the end users after the installation.
This is been recently added for Task Sequence based deployments. There a is a tab ‘User notification’ in the properties of Task Sequence.
Likewise, if we get this option for Application based and package based deployments, but with options to customize the message and display the message in certain intervals repeatedly that will be grateful.

Notification for Task sequence based deployments:

When we deploy an application to the users, it will show the notifications in software center and show a balloon popup notification in system tray based on the deployment settings in ‘User Experience’ tab called ‘Display in Software Center and show all notifications’.
These options ‘User experience’ not available in Task sequence based deployments.
It would be grateful if we get such options even in Task sequence based deployments.

Notification for Available deployments:

Once the Available deployment reaches on software center, it will show a notification at the time when the deployment reaches the machine, based on the ‘user experience’ options set in the deployment.
However, it won’t show further notification to remind the user to say that there is an application available in the software center and ask them to install it.
It would be helpful if we get an option to show a notification message for Available deployments to remind the users to action on it.

Notification for ‘Pending for restart’ machines in Software update deployments:

We all know that the software updates need system restart to apply the patches nowadays, in order to make the machines as compliance. But, we can’t do force reboot due to the bad user experience in it. However, we also need to achieve maximum compliance in software update deployments.
So, it would be grateful if we show a user notification to show a message regarding this pending restart and instruct the users to restart their machines ASAP and an option to customize this message as well with customizable interval.

Would like to have the ability for the end user to not just install an available deployment, but also launch it there. The way I envision this happening is once the user has installed an available deployment, the "Install" button would change to a "Launch" button, and the Uninstall button would be perhaps a separate button, etc., or perhaps even the icon of the application could be used to launch it and the Install/Uninstall behavior could remain the same.

The benefit of this would be (1) if you removed the start menu or other entry points to the application and forced the user to launch it this way, you could truly know every time they launched the application unless they pinned it or browsed to the executable manually and (2) this would provide an elegant way to implement changes for the current user (e.g. HKCU registry entries required for the application to function, or %USERPROFILE% changes required for the application to function).

[This is sort of an extension to https://configurationmanager.uservoice.com/forums/300492-ideas/suggestions/13002684-software-center-show-only-available-software-hid?]

Obviously, we can create applications with multiple deployment types in SCCM, each with its own set of requirements. Now say I create a simple MSI-based application with one deployment type, which has a requirement that Primary device must be true. If I make this available to a user collection, then it shows up for each of those users on their primary devices as available in Software Center. All great so far.

However, if one of those users logs in to a non-primary device, the application still shows up as available, and only upon attempting to install it, the user is presented with a failure (says "This software is not applicable to your device". Doesn't say why, either).

IMHO, an *available application should not show up in Software Center if none of its deployment types are applicable to the device/user* - it's misleading, and absent very specific error messages, can confuse users.

Thanks!

Here is the User experience for the update process as I understand it:

1. System tray balloon appears saying 'software changes are required'

2. System tray balloon appears saying 'downloading and installing software'

3. System tray balloon appears saying 'Restart required: Recently installed updates require your machine to be restarted'

4. *It is here I would like the larger temporary notification reboot window to appear but it doesn't.

5. Permanent notification reboot window appears and stays on the screen

I would like option 4 to be possible. Without this it seems quite easy for users to miss seeing the balloon notification and therefore not know that a restart is coming.

It would be good if there was an option in Client Settings > Computer Restart to automatically show the temporary restart notification window. It would also be good if there was an option here to permanently set the 'SCNotification.exe' in Notification Area Icons to 'show icon and notification' to further improve the visibility to users of pending restarts so they know to save their work before they leave their computer for lunch or when they go home.

I've attached an image of the temporary notification window I am talking about

Thanks,

Andrew