By Andrew Armstrong 
One of the great functions of Configuration Manager 2012 is the Software Catalog. This allows your users to become self-sufficient and stops them from pestering the IT Department every time they want the latest version of Java Client installed!
So, apart from all your custom tools and programs, what should you have in your catalogue as standard?
The answer to this question is probably going to be different for every company across the globe, but below are our recommendations for software that you should have in your Software Catalog with links to download them from their developer’s websites and where possible in MSI format.
Adobe
Browsers
CAD Viewers
- Autodesk Design Review
- Autodesk DWG Trueview (How to deploy Trueview using SCCM)
- IGS Viewer
- STL Viewer
- STP Viewer
Communication
General
- Java Client
- Dot Net Framework
- Visio Viewer
- ProjectLibre
- CutePDF
- FileZilla
- 7-Zip
- ImgBurn
- Greenshot
- Notepad++
- Paint.Net
- QuickTime
- VLC Player
There are obviously many more so if you would like to add to this list, please leave a comment below and we will add it.
We do have guides for how to add some of the software above to your software catalog so feel free to browse our Guides section if you are looking for help.
If you cannot find a guide for the software you are trying to add, please leave a comment and we will create one for you.
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