This project is designed to easily manage applications in SCCM. The main goal of this project is to get a flexible installation configuration for your company. Because in real life a silent install is more complicated than "/qn".

List of products and their readiness

№	Icon	Product Name	Web parser	Config file (Install/Uninstall)
1		1C	Not necessary*	Ready
2		7-zip	Ready	Ready
3		Abbyy FineReader	Not necessary*	Ready
4		Abbyy Lingvo	Not necessary*	In progress
5		Acronis Backup Agent	Not necessary*	Ready
6		Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro	Not necessary*	Ready
7		Adobe Acrobat Reader 2015 Classic	Not necessary*	In progress
8		Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017 Classic	In progress	In progress
9		Adobe Acrobat Reader DC	In progress	Ready
10		Anaconda	In progress	Ready
11		AxurePR	Ready	Ready
12		Business Studio	In progress	Ready
13		Camtasia 8	In progress	Ready
13		Camtasia 9	In progress	Ready
14		Caramba Switcher	In progress	Ready
15		Check Point Endpoint Security	Not necessary*	In progress
16		DameWare Mini Remote Control	Not necessary**	In progress
17		DataGrip	In progress	Ready
18		DaVinchi Resolve	In progress	Ready
19		Dropbox	In progress	In progress
20		DWG TrueView	In progress	Ready
21		Far Manager	Ready	Ready
22		Fiddler	Ready	Ready
23		FileZilla Client	Ready	Ready
24		Foxit Reader	In progress	In progress
25		FreeCommander	In progress	Ready
26		Gimp	In progress	Ready
27		Git	Ready	Ready
28		Git Extensions	Ready	Ready
29		Google Chrome	In progress	Ready
30		Gpg4win	In progress	In progress
31		Greenshot	In progress	Ready
32		InfoWatch	Not necessary*	In progress
33		Kaspersky agent	Not necessary*	In progress
34		KDiff3	In progress	In progress
35		KeePass	Ready	Ready
36		K-Lite	Ready	Ready
37		kubectl	In progress	Ready
38		Local Administrator Password Solution	Not necessary*	Ready
39		Logitech Options	In progress	Ready
40		Message Analyzer	Not necessary*	Ready
41		Microsoft Azure Information Protection	In progress	Ready
42		Microsoft Edge	In progress	Ready
43		Microsoft Power BI Desktop	In progress	Ready
44		Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio	Ready	Ready
45		Microsoft Teams	In progress	In progress
46		Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable	Not necessary*	In progress
47		Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable	Not necessary*	In progress
48		Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Ready	Ready
49		Mozilla Firefox ESR	Ready	Ready
50		mRemoteNG	Ready	Ready
51		Nmap	Ready	Ready
52		Notepad++	Ready	Ready
53		OBS Studio	In progress	In progress
54		One Identity Manager	Not necessary*	Ready
55		Oracle Java 7	In progress	Ready
56		Oracle Java SE Development Kit	In progress	Ready
57		Oracle SQL Developer	Not necessary*	Ready
58		Orca	Not necessary*	Ready
59		Paint.NET	In progress	Ready
60		PDF24 Creator	In progress	Ready
61		pgAdmin	In progress	Ready
62		PHP Storm	In progress	Ready
63		Postman	Ready	Ready
64		PuntoSwitcher	In progress	Ready
65		PuTTY	Ready	Ready
66		PyCharm	In progress	Ready
66		PyCharm	In progress	Ready
67		Python 3	In progress	Ready
68		Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan)	Ready	Ready
69		Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)	Not necessary*	In progress
70		RD Tabs	Ready	In progress
71		SAS Enterprise Guide	Not necessary*	Ready
72		SBIS Plugin	Not necessary*	Ready
73		SCCM Console	Not necessary*	Ready
74		Secret Net Studio	Not necessary*	Ready
75		Snagit	Not necessary*	In progress
76		SoapUI	In progress	Ready
77		Strategy Design Studio	Not necessary*	Ready
78		Sublime Merge	In progress	In progress
79		Symantec Endpoint Protection	Not necessary*	In progress
80		Tableau Desktop	In progress	Ready
81		Taxcom Plugin	Not necessary*	Ready
82		TeamViewer Host	In progress	Ready
83		think-cell	Not necessary*	In progress
84		TortoiseGit	In progress	In progress
85		TortoiseSVN	In progress	In progress
86		Total Commander	Ready	Ready
87		TreeSize Free	In progress	Ready
88		Visio Viewer	Not necessary*	Ready
89		VLC	Ready	Ready
90		VMware Horizon Client	Not necessary*	Ready
91		VMware Tools	Not necessary*	Ready
92		WebEx	In progress	Ready
93		WinDjView	In progress	In progress
94		WinMerge	In progress	Ready
95		WinRAR	Ready	Ready
96		WinSCP	Ready	Ready
97		Wireshark	Ready	Ready
98		XMind	In progress	Ready
99		XnView	In progress	Ready
100		Yandex Browser	In progress	Ready
101		Zabbix agent	In progress	Ready
102		Галактика	Not necessary*	In progress
103		КОМПАС-3D Viewer	In progress	Ready
104		Континент АП	Not necessary*	Ready

• No need* - I think that it makes no sense to try to write site parsers, provided that this software is updated only after approval by software administrators.
• in progress - it is worth writing and publishing either a config or a site parser

REST API

If you do not want to run scripts for parsing sites on your site, but only want to receive data about applications, then I started making a REST service https://sccm-software-check.azurewebsites.net/api/application

REST parameters

Parameter Name	Value	Description
name	7zip, AxurePR, FarManager, Fiddler, FileZilla, Git, GitExtensions, KLiteStandard, KeePass, MozillaFirefoxESR, mRemoteNG, Nmap, Notepadplusplus, Postman, PuTTY, RDCMan, RDTabs, SQLManagementStudio, TotalCommander, VLC, VisualStudioCode, WinRAR, WinSCP, Wireshark	Application name
version	1.2.4 (specific application version), check	Shows information about a specific version of the application. If check is selected - checks the live version

REST request examples

• Request the latest version of the application

https://sccm-software-check.azurewebsites.net/api/application?name=VisualStudioCode

{
  "TimeStamp": "2022-08-21 01:59:23",
  "Product": "Visual Studio Code",
  "Version": "1.70.1",
  "Searchlink": "https://code.visualstudio.com/updates",
  "Download_link_x86": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/win32/stable",
  "Download_link_x64": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/win32-x64/stable",
  "icon": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rprokhorov/SCCM-Software-Check/master/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code/icon.png",
  "LocalizedDescription": {
    "ru": "Visual Studio Code - Редактор кода. Включает в себя отладчик, инструменты для работы с Git, подсветку синтаксиса, IntelliSense и средства для рефакторинга. Имеет широкие возможности для кастомизации: пользовательские темы, сочетания клавиш и файлы конфигурации.",
    "en": "Visual Studio Code - editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications"
  },
  "Publisher": "Microsoft"
}

• Requesting a specific application version

https://sccm-software-check.azurewebsites.net/api/application?name=VisualStudioCode&version=1.69

{
  "TimeStamp": "2022-07-07 08:00:27",
  "Product": "Visual Studio Code",
  "Version": "1.69",
  "Searchlink": "https://code.visualstudio.com/updates",
  "Download_link_x86": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/win32/stable",
  "Download_link_x64": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/win32-x64/stable",
  "icon": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rprokhorov/SCCM-Software-Check/master/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code/icon.png",
  "LocalizedDescription": {
    "ru": "Visual Studio Code - Редактор кода. Включает в себя отладчик, инструменты для работы с Git, подсветку синтаксиса, IntelliSense и средства для рефакторинга. Имеет широкие возможности для кастомизации: пользовательские темы, сочетания клавиш и файлы конфигурации.",
    "en": "Visual Studio Code - editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications"
  },
  "Publisher": "Microsoft"
}

• Requesting latest version from website

https://sccm-software-check.azurewebsites.net/api/application?name=VisualStudioCode&version=check

{
  "TimeStamp": "2023-04-04 10:08:18",
  "Product": "Visual Studio Code",
  "Version": "1.77",
  "Searchlink": "https://code.visualstudio.com/updates",
  "Download_link_x86": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/win32/stable",
  "Download_link_x64": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/win32-x64/stable",
  "icon": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rprokhorov/SCCM-Software-Check/master/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code/icon.png",
  "LocalizedDescription": {
    "ru": "Visual Studio Code - Редактор кода. Включает в себя отладчик, инструменты для работы с Git, подсветку синтаксиса, IntelliSense и средства для рефакторинга. Имеет широкие возможности для кастомизации: пользовательские темы, сочетания клавиш и файлы конфигурации.",
    "en": "Visual Studio Code - editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications"
  },
  "Publisher": "Microsoft"
}

Folder structure

• Applications - the folder contains application icons and some custom settings or transformation files for applications. For example, for VLC, you need to apply a transformation file for "quiet first launch of the application."
• Software Check - the folder contains scripts that parse sites, get the latest version of the application, download links. and if your file share does not have this version, then it downloads it. Then it starts creating the application in SCCM.
• Template - the folder contains fork PSADT, which was redesigned to work with configuration files + minor cosmetic improvements.

Installation

1. Copy repository
2. Edit file Config.json in folder SoftwareCheck for work in your's infrastructure

{
    "to":"LikePatchMyPC@rprokhorov.ru",
    "From":"SCCM_service@rprokhorov.ru",
    "MailServer":"mail.rprokhorov.ru",
    "LocalDistribPath":"D:\\Sources\\Applications\\",
    "DistribPath":"\\\\SCCMandSQL\\Sources\\Applications\\",
    "ProxyURL" : "http://ProxyServer.contoso.com:8080",
    "PSADTTemplatePath" : "\\SCCMandSQL.rprokhorov.local\\Sources\\Applications\\_PSADT Template\\%AppName% %Version%\\*",
    "ProviderMachineName" : "SCCMandSQL",
    "SiteCode":"PRV"
}

3. Run script All.ps1 or add it to run from Task Scheduler

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Content folder structure

What I got using this approach in my work (for obvious reasons, I can only take screenshots from the test environment, but this does not change anything):

• Red - content folder. DistribPath in Config.json
• Green - folder named as application.
• Blue - a version of the product that will be understood by a person. For example, the "SQL Server Management Studio" application, when launched and downloaded, says that it has a version of "18.4", but when installed on the system, it will have a version of "15.0.18206.0". In this case, for ease of use, the folder is created with version 18.4, and the version "15.0.18206.0" will be used in the DetectionMethod file itself.
• Purple - folder with downloaded files.
• Yellow - example of downloaded files.

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Structure of applications and folders in SCCM

• Red - the name of the application root folder of the application. I prefer to make the list as narrow as possible, since in this case any new employee should not have any secret advantages, but simply have to look through the list and find the right one.
• Blue - folder with archive versions of applications. I prefer not to delete old applications, but simply move them to a separate folder. There may also be stored applications that relate to this product and inherited, and for some reason are no longer used. In that case, I'd rather save the app too.
• Green - приложения, которые используются в данный момент в продакшене. В определённый момент тут будут находиться 2 версии приложений v1 и v2, пока не произошёл переход с одной версии на другую.

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Template

It based on PSADT project (https://psappdeploytoolkit.com)

I made the following changes:

• Red - folder that contains all sample Config files.
• Blue - Config.ps1 file, which will be executed to install and uninstall applications.
• Green - DetectionMethod.ps1 file, which will be executed as Detection Method in the SCCM application.
• White - original PSADT files
• Yellow - parts of the template that I changed.

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Config.ps1 file

This file is used to describe the installation/post-installation and uninstallation steps of the application. The file has the format of a hash table in PowerShell (I did not find another normal option to store a separate ScriptBlock).

Example Config.ps1 file:

$Config = @{
    appVendor = "Mozilla"
    appName = "Mozilla Firefox ESR"
    appVersion = "68.3.0"
    appDetectionVersion = "68.3.0"
    appDetectionName = "Mozilla Firefox*ESR"
    appScriptDate = get-date -Format "yyyy/MM/dd"
    appScriptAuthor = "RProhkorov"
    close_app = "firefox"
    InstallScriptBlock = {
        [string]$installPhase = 'Installation'
        Show-InstallationProgress -StatusMessage "Install application $appName `nStep [1/2] install new version of software..."
        # Install block
        if ($Is64Bit)
        {
            $mainExitCode = Execute-Process -Path "$dirFiles\FirefoxESR_x64.exe" -Parameters "/s /INI=$dirFiles\Firefox.ini"
        }
        else
        {
            $mainExitCode = Execute-Process -Path "$dirFiles\FirefoxESR_x86.exe" -Parameters "/s /INI=$dirFiles\Firefox.ini"
        }
        Show-InstallationProgress -StatusMessage "Install application $appName `nStep [2/2] copy policy files..."
		[string]$installPhase = 'Post-Installation'
        $FireFox_Folder = 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox'
        if(!(Test-Path -Path "$FireFox_Folder\distribution"))
        {
            New-Folder -Path "$FireFox_Folder\distribution"
        }
        Copy-File -Path "$dirSupportFiles\policies.json" -Destination "$FireFox_Folder\distribution\policies.json" -ContinueOnError $false 
    }
    UninstallScriptBlock = {
        [string]$installPhase = 'Uninstall'
        Stop-Process -Name 'Firefox' -Force
		$mainExitCode = Execute-Process -Path "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe" -Parameters "/s"
    }
}

• appVendor - application author (Mozilla)
• appName - the name of the application in SCCM, and in the installation window if it will show the installation process.
• appVersion - the version of the application that is human-readable. See the example above with SQL Management Studio.
• appDetectionVersion - application version to be used when executing DetectionMethod.ps1
• appDetectionName - the name of the application that will be used to find it on the computer. For example, appName = "Adobe Flash Player ActiveX", while on the computer the application will be searched for by the mask appDetectionName = "Adobe Flash Player*ActiveX"
• appScriptDate - variable to understand when this config file was created. Not used anywhere.
• appScriptAuthor - config author.
• close_app - applications that must be closed before the installation of the application can begin. If the application is running on the computer and interferes with the installation, the user will be shown a window asking them to close the application or postpone the installation.
• InstallScriptBlock - a block that describes how the application will be installed. You can and should use PSADT functions in a block.
• UninstallScriptBlock - the block to be executed when the app uninstall is triggered

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DetectionMethod.ps1 file

The file is used as the Detection method when creating an Application in SCCM. File description:

function write-log{
    ...
}

Function Get-InstalledApplication {
...
}

## Load config file
#. "$(Split-Path $script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path)\SupportFiles\Config.ps1"
##*===============================================
$appName = "Mozilla Firefox ESR"
$appVersion = "68.4.1"
$appDetectionVersion = "68.4.1"
$appDetectionName = "Mozilla Firefox*ESR"
$LogName = "Detection Method $appName - $appVersion.log" -replace '\*', ' '
$Version = "$appDetectionVersion"
#Detection block
[array]$Products = Get-InstalledApplication -Name "*$appDetectionName*" -WildCard -LogName $LogName

$counter=0
foreach ($product in $Products)
{ 
	if ($product.DisplayVersion -ge $Version)
	{
		Write-Log -Message "Application $($product.DisplayName) [$($product.DisplayVersion)] has version greater or equal $Version" -MessageType Info -Component Main -LogFileName $LogName
		$counter++
	}
	else 
	{
		Write-Log -Message "Application $($product.DisplayName) [$($product.DisplayVersion)] has not version greater or equal $Version" -MessageType Error -Component Main -LogFileName $LogName
	}
}
if ($counter -eq $products.Count -and $counter -ne 0)
{
	Write-Host "Software was found"
}
else {
}
Write-Log -Message "Detection method was finished" -MessageType Info -Component Main -LogFileName $LogName

• function write-log - function for writing logs in cmtrace format.
• function Get-InstalledApplication - a function from PSADT that returns an array of applications, since multiple applications can be found on the computer.
• appName - the name of the application
• appVersion - the version of the application that is human-readable. See the example above with SQL Management Studio.
• appDetectionVersion - application version to be used when executing DetectionMethod.ps1
• appDetectionName - the name of the application that will be used to find it on the computer. For example, appName = "Adobe Flash Player ActiveX", while on the computer the application will be searched for by the mask appDetectionName = "Adobe Flash Player*ActiveX"
• $LogName - the path where the log will be stored
• #Detection block - a description of how your applications will be searched. In a specific case, a search is made for all applications by mask, and if at least one is lower than the version we are looking for, then it will be considered that the application was not found. In the future, this will help to clean up the infrastructure from old artifacts.