Extend script functionality to allow an end user to run a script on-demand via the software center. This allows for admins to publish user driven maintenance tasks that can be used over and over. This functionality is available in other configuration management software such as JAMF for Mac management.

Admin would deploy a script, script shows up in software center. User can run the script as many times as they need, any time. Restrictions could be configurable so admins can specify how often they can run the script. Once the script is ran, it remains available forever or until restricted criteria is met.

Sometimes it's useful to allow a user who has been away for some time to defer an installation for the same amount of time (in days) that other users had (e.g. Win10 Feature Updates) rather than defer until a hard deadline. It would be great to specify that an installation or update could be deferred by the user for X amount of time since the first time they were actually notified. Perhaps as a bonus also have the ability to still have a hard deadline furhter in the future.

e.g. Users have 2 weeks to install the feature update from the time they are notified but has a hard deadline of 1 months from now. If a user was on vacation for 3 weeks they only get the remaining 1 week to defer. If a user was on an extended vacation and came back after the month was up they get the update immediately.

Currently, when using a screen reader (like JAWS or NVDA), Software Center is very difficult to use because the fields and controls lack labels. For example, searching for a title in the library, there are two radio buttons for changing views between a list and a grid, but the rest lack indication of their purpose. Example (Using NVDA)

All radio button not checked L - Required radio button checked R -- (Fields should have clear labels or "All" and "required" but currently have underscores in each word. Also, should be contained in a fieldset with a legend of "Type" or similar)
edit - (Should be labeled "search" which exists visually but not attached to the text field for screen readers)
button - (should be labelled "clear" or similar as this is the little X button on the right side of the search field)
combo box All collapsed F - (Should be labelled "Filter")
combo box Microsoft.SoftwareCenter.Client.Common.LocalizedSortProperty collapsed S - (Should be labeled "Sort by")
radio button not checked Switch to list view / radio button checked Switch to tile view - (Fields are labeled but should include a fieldset and legend like "View" or similar)

The results that appear in the search window make sense, so if a user can figure out how to search, they should be in good shape.

Thanks for considering!

I realize there are already some request for custom icons, but please make the icons smaller or better yet: make the default views customizable.
The List view still wastes too much space. Also you should be able to sort by klicking on the row headers.

I am still using the old SW center because it is much easier to view, especially for the updates.
Speaking of the updates view, the install all button is good, but when you switch to selecting there is no select all. Which would be very helpful if you just want to skip ONE single update out of all.

Generally, it needs usability improvements. Or give the admins the ability to control the gui to some degree.
Thanks.

Great work on the improvements on the new software center – especially the next available Maintenance Window … but … why stuff it under need a tab and then a subtab ?

A few reasons why I want it in the top right corner :

1. I really think an end user is not going to drill down to the tab below to find the info. The user and helpdesk really want to see it when they open software center . What is going on in detail , can be found under a subtab for all I care .


2. Server Admins or special industrial type of factory machines – They want to see that also directly without going to dig into subtabs .

We recently implemented the CMG and observed the issue with Computers on the Internet. When some users opened the Software center applications tab they did not see any user deployed software.

The issue is in log C:\Windows\CCM\Logs\ADALOperationProvider.log It reports MFA issue:
WAM token request failed. Status 3, Details 'AADSTS50076: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access.

The Software Center is not working the user did not acknowledge the popup “Work or School Account Problem”

If the users click Fix Now and enters in auth code and now the ADALOperationProvider.log reports SCCM Client successfully gets the AAD User token…

The Software Center now is fully populated with the Users Application Available to the user to install.

The change request is change the software center when it detects the "WAM token request failed" - MFA issue it issues a popup alert to the user the software center cannot provide user applications available until the user click the popup on “Work or School Accounts Problem” and completed the MFA.

In newer versions of SCCM CB, we've had the option of hiding certain tabs in Software Center, which has been immensely useful in allowing us to present a cleaner, focused interface to end-users. Among other tabs, we choose to hide the "Operating Systems" tab, since we administer task sequence deployments end-to-end.

However, when we make a task sequence available to those clients, the "New software is available" notification is still displayed for those deployments, and visiting the Software Center obviously won't allow the user to see the deployment. Needless to say, this makes for a confusing UX. Setting "Show notifications for new deployments" to false in global client settings would probably work around this problem, but that's a global setting which would apply to all deployments (and we'd like it enabled for application / software update deployments). At least for task sequences, I don't believe I can suppress notifications on a per-deployment basis.

Would it be possible to suppress this notification for deployment types that cannot be displayed with the active configuration of Software Center? I don't mean to trivialize the work involved, but information regarding the displayed tabs can be queried in a straightforward manner:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-CimInstance -Namespace root/ccm/Policy/Machine/ActualConfig -ClassName CCM_SoftwareCenterClientConfig | select SCShow*

SCShowApplicationsTab : 1
SCShowComplianceTab : 0
SCShowInstallationTab : 1
SCShowOptionsTab : 0
SCShowOSDTab : 0
SCShowUpdatesTab : 0

So we're just a step away from correlating that with the deployment type in question, and taking a decision (one way or the other) on displaying the notification.

Thanks!