[Casper] Viewing installed applications.

[Miles Leacy]

Yup.  Unless /Users is somehow "special".  I haven't tried it myself.
 Clients aren't allowed to keep apps in their home folders (according to
AUP) and can't launch them from there (per MCX and/or Casper) in the
environments I've worked with.
I'd suggest /Library as a location for organization-specific items.  Unless
you have a compelling reason not to, I'd include all apps in /Applications.
 If you have apps that are only deployed to a subset of clients, you can
accomplish this with narrowly scoped Casper policies.

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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Julius Wilpon <julius.wilpon at pearson.com>wrote:

>  I’m new to this, but can’t you just go to
>
> Admin tab ->Inventory Options -> Inventory Preferences ->Software tab
>
> And add /Users to the Application scope.
>
>
> I would think that would collect any apps sitting in user profiles.
>
> Again – I’m very new to Casper, so someone tell me if I’m wrong.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Nichols, Jared" <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>
> *Date: *Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:20:32 -0400
> *To: *Peter Gawlocki <pgawlocki at cellsignal.net>, "
> casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [Casper] Viewing installed applications.
>
> While it may not be integrated into your current reports (as I think Casper
> would need to be modified) you can probably run a script that does an “LS –R
> *.app ~/Applications” to a file.  Once you’ve got it in a file, you can
> massage it as needed.  It wouldn’t give you versions, which may make that
> useless....
>
> Just a thought.
>
> j
>
>
> On 4/3/09 09:53 , "Peter Gawlocki" <pgawlocki at cellsignal.net> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to add an additional 'folder' to
> the locations that are reported-on in the Installed Applications List.
>
> We install a standard set of applications on each computer in the
> usual place ...   /Applications/
> We install non-standard, user requested Apps in an alternate location
> in the Users directory...        /Users/'SomeUser'/Applications/
>
> These applications are not reported in the "Installed Applications"
> list.
>
> Can this alternate location be added to the client-reporting process
> to capture this data?
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
> Peter Gawlocki
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