Managing Products

Choose 3rd-party software you want to publish within System Center Configuration Manager using the Managing Products dialog.

From the Workspace (the lower panel on the left), make sure that Administration is selected.
From the Administration tree, select HEAT PatchLink DeskTop for System Center > Catalogs.
From the main pane, click the Manage Products button.
Step Result: The Manage Products dialog opens.
From the tree, select the vendors, products, or product versions you want to publish.
- To auto subscribe to a product, click the Auto Subscribe icon. Auto Subscription publishes the newest release for a product release when it's added to the HEAT PatchLink DeskTop Catalog. Read the message that's displayed and click the OK button.
- To manually publish a vendor, product, or product release, select a checkbox. Future updates are not automatically published.
Tip:
- Read up on helpful info for managing products.
- As you add software, check its total size in the upper-right corner. This info gives an idea of how long it will take the publication to complete.
Package Size
Click Save and Publish. Read the message, and then click OK.
Note:
- When publishing, make sure you have 3x disk space that the publication consumes, plus an additional 10MB. For example, if you're publishing 20MB of software, have 70MB of disk space available. We recommend this practice because Windows Server Update Services keeps two copies of all 3rd-party packages that are published (the additional 10MB is used for temporary storage during publication staging).
- When you publish, a notice opens that tells you the size of the publication. Large publications can take a long time to process, so review the size and only proceed if the size is reasonable.
Publication Size Warning

Result:

The software you selected begins publishing.
The Activity History view makes a listing for the publication and displays its progress.
When the publication completes, you can access the software within the Software Library Workspace.