SCCM Software Center Customization to fit your company branding

Beginning with SCCM 1710, you can customize the SCCM Software Center to set a specific company name, colour theme and company logo. SCCM 1806 bring the customization further with the possibility to add a custom web page to the Software Center.

You may find this feature useless but we see this as an opportunity to add valuable information to your users, and for multiple uses. Here are some ideas we thought :

• Add your ticketing system for your users to open a support ticket
• Add your company intranet
• Add a Sharepoint library which contains your application’s documentation
• Add a useful blog for your IT users
• Create a specific website for all your available resources before upgrading to Windows 10
• Add the FIFA webpage during World Cup (… ok probably not)

Since this setting is set using client settings, you can have different URL depending on a specific collection making the possibility endless. This blog post will show the step required to customize the SCCM Software Center

SCCM Software Center Customization Prerequisites

All of these steps require at least SCCM 1710 to be installed. Follow our blog post to upgrade to the latest version if it’s not the case.

Company Branding Customization

We will start our SCCM Software Center customization by adding our company name, colour theme and company logo.

• Open the SCCM Console
• Go to Administration \ Client Settings
• Create a new or open an existing Client Settings
• Go to the Software Center tab
• Set Select these new settings to specify company information to YES

• Click on Customize
• On the SCCM Software Center Customization
  • Enter your Company Name
  • Select the colour scheme
  • Add your company logo (The maximum logo size is 400×100 and 750kb)

• Additionally, you can choose to Hide some pane from the Software Center

Software Center Custom Website

We will now add a custom webpage to the SCCM Software Center. (SCCM 1806+). We will add a popular SCCM blog…

• Still in the Client Settings / Software Center, click on Tabs
• Check Specify a custom tab for Software Center
  • Enter the desired Tab name – Support
  • Enter the Content URL – https://systemcenterdudes.com

• Click Ok and close the Client Settings
• Now deploy the Client Setting to a test collection

Results

On a device which is a member of the collection where the client setting has been deployed, initiate a Machine Policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle. Wait 1-2 minutes and open the Software Center

You should see your customization. If it’s not the case, close and reopens the Software Center, it should show up.

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