General Settings
This field lists the version of SoftwareCentral. If the installation is online, it will also tell the latest version of SoftwareCentral available from http://softwarecentralupdate.com
Click on the “Open License Information Window” to open a window where you can enter a new license for SoftwareCentral.
Subscription paid until this date. Your license will automatically be renewed, if not specified otherwise.
Set up a mail address to receive a warning before your SoftwareCentral installation exceeds the number of purchased clients.
The Synchronize button will synchronize SoftwareCentral with the central servers at SoftwareCentral Update. The synchronization job runs automatically once a day. A synchronization will send diagnostic data and error messages to SoftwareCentral Update and receive messages and minor updates to the system. No information that can be used to identify the SoftwareCentral installation is parsed on.
The Check for Updates button will check if there are a new version of SoftwareCentral available. It will not automatically update SoftwareCentral.
This settings will allow SoftwareCentral to send error messages to SoftwareCentral update during a synchronization. No private information will be send.
This setting will allow SoftwareCentral to send diagnostic data to SoftwareCentral Update. This information can help identify problems with a SoftwareCentral installation from the “Health Check” interface.
From here the connection string to the SoftwareCentral database can be modified.
This is the Central Administration Site, or Central Site for SCCM 2007, or primary site if it is a single site environment.
The fully qualified SCCM server name, corresponding to the Central Site Code above. (The server where the SMS Provider is installed)
This field is empty by default.
Use this field if you require a separate account to connect to the SCCM server.
Leave this field empty to use the application pool user.
This account cannot be the same as the application pool user.
This account will also be used if the SCCM server is in an untrusted domain.
The password for the SCCM server user account.
The SCCM Central Site database server name.
If the database is running on an instance other than the default, add “\instancename” after the server name.
The SCCM Central Site database name.
Tells if there is trust to the database (the application pool user can connect to the database using windows authentication.
The SQL User login name. Only needed if there isn’t trust to the database.
The SQL User password. Only needed if there isn’t trust to the database.
The URL to the SCCM reporting server. E.g.: http://[servername]/ReportServer/
The reporting folder name, e.g.: ConfigMgr_[SiteCode]
The SCCM Report database server name.
If the database is running on an instance other than the default, add “\instancename” after the server name.
The SCCM Report database name.
Tells if there is trust to the database (the application pool user can connect to the database using windows authentication.
The SQL User login name. Only needed if there isn’t trust to the database.
The SQL User password. Only needed if there isn’t trust to the database.
The Active Directory group for SoftwareCentral administrators. Members of this group will have unlimited access to SoftwareCentral.
The application pool username in the format “domain\username”.
The application pool user password. This is required as SoftwareCentral uses this account to run the SoftwareCentral Service.
The base URL for SoftwareCentral. E.g.: http://softwarecentral/softwarecentral.aspx
For details about Intune Configuration, go to the Intune Configuration chapter.
This will clear all data stored in the cache. This can be useful if a setting has been manually changed in the database or some object created in the SCCM does not show up in SoftwareCentral immediately.
This will restart the site, stop all processes running and disconnect all users. If used during a process is running, it may cause corrupted data.
This will update or recreate the task sequence scripts package used by Software Groups. It can be helpful if the package has been corrupted.
Enter a number of months that log entries should be kept. Use 0 to keep all log entries. A big log of millions of entries or years of data may cause performance issues in SoftwareCentral.
Enter a number of months that deployment jobs will be kept in the database. Use 0 to keep all deployment jobs.
Phased Deployments older than this will be deleted regardless of their state. Old phased deployments must be removed to free up system resources.
The default value is 365 days.
The maximum amount of days SoftwareCentral can keep a phase running before it will be marked as failed.
The default value is 30 days.
If enabled, SoftwareCentral will analyze the settings of your shop each time a user enters the "Software Administration" interface.
If anything can be improved, SoftwareCentral will suggest the user the changes.
This can for instance be to resize large images. When images are resized, a backup of the original images are saved in the "Uploads" folder in the SoftwareCentral installation folder.
Use this field to display a message in the notification popup. This can for instance be a message of planned downtime.
The notification will be shown to all users the first time they start SoftwareCentral one time a day.
If the field is empty, no notification will be shown.
Note that if notifications are disabled or the user has chosen to hide notifications, no notifications will be shown.