User Installed Applications

At Security > Applications > User Installed Applications you can configure User Installed Applications. User Installed Applications give users the right to install software on specific computers. This can be particularly useful to give expert users a degree of control over their own computer, so that they can install software themselves as and when needed. User Installed Applications are always restricted to specific computers, based on Workspace Containers and/or Zones, and can optionally be further restricted to specific users.

For example, a department may be in the process of developing a new application. They receive new versions several times a week, and each version needs to be installed before it can be tested. It is extremely inefficient for the administrator to have to do this each time. Instead, you can enable User Installed Applications with Access Control set to specific people in that department, and Workspace Control set to a Workspace Container that holds the computers in that department. As a result, the specified users can install the updates on the specified computers.

Similarly, a small number of people might use a highly specialized software package such as AutoCAD. They may well know more about the software than the administrator does, and so it makes more sense to allow them to install the AutoCAD updates or extensions themselves.

Users who are allowed to install User Installed Applications on a computer, get an extra tab in their Workspace Preferences tool, the Other tab. From this tab users can install software using a wizard. With this wizard, they can create shortcuts for these applications in their Start menu, on their Desktop, on their Quick Launch bar and in their Startup items. These applications can also be deleted via the Workspace Preferences tool and be changed.