How to enable the new SCCM 1511 Software Center

Benoit LecoursJanuary 12 20161 Min Read

Founder of System Center Dudes. Based in Montreal, Canada, Senior Microsoft SCCM Consultant, 8 times Enterprise Mobility MVP. Working in the industry since 1999. His specialization is designing, deploying and configuring SCCM, mass deployment of Windows operating systems, Office 365 and Intune deployments.

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SCCM 1511 contains many new features, one of them is the improved Software Center. After installing or upgrading to SCCM 1511, on an updated client you’ll see that the Software Center hasn’t changed.

SCCM 1511 Software Center

This is because the new Software Center is not enabled by default. This blog post will describe how to enable the new SCCM 1511 Software Center.

Some of the main improvements :

Possibility to view Users and Device deployments
New visual design
Device Compliance is now part of Software Center. Don’t get confused, this is not for Compliance Settings (DCM) it’s for Conditional Access scenarios
Silverlight is no longer a requirement

Enable the new SCCM 1511 Software Center

The new Software Center is enabled through SCCM Client Settings. To enable the function and deploy it to your machines :

Open the SCCM Console
Go to Administration / Client Settings
Create a new Client Settings or modify the one your using. For this post i’ll create a new one
In the right pane, select Computer Agent

SCCM 1511 Software Center

On the left, under Computer Agent, you’ll see Use new software Center, select Yes, click OK

SCCM 1511 Software Center

Right-click the Client Settings you just created and select Deploy
Select the collection that contains the systems you want to enable

SCCM 1511 Software Center

Initiate a Machine Policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle on your client

SCCM 1511 Software Center

After a couple seconds, the SCCM 1511 Software Center will be displayed

SCCM 1511 Software Center

The installation directory of the new SCCM 1511 Software Center is C:\Windows\CCM\ClientUX

SCCM 1511 Software Center

1511 Client Client Settings Configuration Manager console Guide SCCM 1511 SCCM 2012 R2 software center Step-by-Step

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Luke

04.05.2016 AT 09:16 PM

Is there a way to change the view from icons to details or list like file explorer? I find the icons to be too big and bulky

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04.06.2016 AT 11:19 AM

Not as we speak but the product team is aware of this and it will be addressed in next versions.

DeployGuy

12.02.2016 AT 01:05 PM

Here is a fix? The question I have to ask is after going to the trouble of creating a better SC, why did they diverge from standard Windows program GUI guidelines. The interface should at the very least remember the view last selected by the user and remember it and/or allow a command-line parameter to change the view, or a registry setting to change the default. Perhaps some usability studies would have been helpful. Until then try this autoit script, You can download AutoIT and compile this to an EXE It will change the SC to list viewe if it is already open or it will open it and then change it to List view. Yes a primitive solution to a dumb problem, but it works. ; Increases the delay for WinWaitActive to allow the ; The SCClient to populate with Icons and be ready for the sendkeys ; Increase Opt("WinWaitDelay", 5250) ;5250 milliseconds Run("C:\Windows\CCM\ClientUX\SCClient.exe") WinWaitActive( "Software Center" ,"",10) Sleep("5") Send("{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}") Send("{ENTER}")

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Stefan

03.30.2016 AT 03:38 AM

Try this: http://www.scconfigmgr.com/2015/12/06/enable-the-new-software-center-in-configmgr-1511/ "When I was playing around with this new setting, I enabled it before the Client Upgrade feature had upgraded all of my clients to 5.00.8325.1000. For some reason when I started Software Center from the start menu, the old Software Center was loaded instead of the new. I reinstalled the ConfigMgr client on one of my clients, but that didn’t help. I then went back to my custom Client Setting where I had first enabled the new Software Center in, disabled it and saved the custom Client Setting. I then enabled it again and saved the custom Client Setting once again, pulled the machine policy on one of my clients, and the new Software Center was now loaded instead of the old. I’m not really sure why this is, but it would seem that the Software Center shortcut is not updated unless the client is running the latest version (5.00.8325.1000)."

Durai

03.09.2016 AT 03:44 PM

Hi Rogier, Even we are experiencing the same behavior in our environment. Though the client got upgraded, still the Software Center was old. However, i found this folder ClientUX and when opened SCClient it opened the new Software Center. It didn't automatically upgrade the Software Center.

Rogier

02.17.2016 AT 05:10 AM

Hi, if i enable this in the client settings and have updated the machine policies and i open the Software Center it will open the one in C:\Windows\CCM\SCClient.exe But if i check the C:\Windows\CCM\ClientUX i see the new Software Center is there and works. Do you have the same behaivior? I expected the old Software Center location would be changed to the new path...

Greg Carson

03.09.2017 AT 02:23 PM

Same issue for me...but only have found 1 server this happened too.....and its my actual SCCM server! I just updated the shortcuts with the new software center. I am following to see what fix may be if I encounter a bigger problem down the road.

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