Software Categories

seems like a rather personal thing to me at first blush, but I was still surprised by how different another list looked.

here's mine:

AVPS systems ( special group for classroom systems with interactive whiteboards)
Faculty Only (test generation and grade book software mostly)
IN Development (holding pen for new or upgraded stuff while I am making sure it is stable)
On Demand (Mostly project based apps or stuff that a teacher might request for a limited time in a lab)
One Time Installs (one off stuff, oddball drivers etc.. Flip camera software is in there for example)
Operating system (core OS builds)
Scripts
Software Updates (not really in use as we run an in house SuS and I tend to build a new package if an app updates substantially)
Standard Applications (all the stuff that every system gets: CS3, Office 2k8, ilife9, iwork9, FF, etc....)
TESTING, Do Not Deploy (the playground/junkyard for developing stuff)
To Be Removed (recently replaced items go here to suffer for a bit before being deleted)
Unknown
VAL (some specially licensed software for our visual arts lab.. Aperture mostly)

Eric Young
eyoung at thayer.org
781-664-2286

I've got:

Connectivity (VPN Clients)
Development (Xcode etc)
Graphics & Publishing (Adobe etc)
Internet (browsers and plugins)
Maintenance (not Self Service, but there are some cleanup things, login banner etc)
Printers
Productivity (Office, SAP, EndNote etc)
Scientific & Engineering (Matlab etc)
Security (firewall rules - not self service)
VMWare (The app as well as standard VMs that we provide)

j

Here's mine as it appears in self service, I have others that are not in self service such as test, updates, core os, core software, out dated, apple updates, login, startup.......

Printers
Scanners
Audio
Adobe
Visual
Software signoff
Development
Windows
Utilities
Tools and fixes

Criss

Mine is categorized by two main categories and then sub categories. I have end user stuff, and then IT stuff. Then under end users I have:

Multimedia

Web related

Office productivity

so on and so forth, then under the IT stuff I have all the technology stuff in categories like:

network

local user accounts

directory services

casper maintenance

Of course not all of them are self service categories. I also have duplicated a few policies and am now using custom triggers. Like for example, CS3 and CS4 installs are done over a high speed switch. I will use ARD admin and send the jamf command to the client to manually trigger the CS3 install on the switch. I like this because then you know better what you are doing and you don't have people trying to install it over wireless. Plus my high speed switch is on it's own segregated VLAN so if it is on that particular VLAN I know it is for installing large packages...

FYI

Tom

I can't miss the party on categories. Here are mine.

Adobe - (adobe)Obvious
Classic - (classic) Old OS9 stuff, pretty much not used anymore
Common Applications - (ca) Applications that many departments use that don't have a category that suits them, like Google Earth, etc.
Departmental - (dep) Applications specific to a deprtment
Graphics & Web Design - (design) Obvious
Hardware - (hw) for devices like scanners, etc.
Internet - (internet) Browsers, or other applications that utilize the Internet like Messenger, FTP, VPN
Languages - (lang) Language packs for the OS
Multimedia - (mm) Video Editing, Audio Editing, Disc Authoring, Players
Office - (office) Obvious
OS - (os) Obvious
Printers - (print) Printer driver and software packages
Scripts - Never broke these out into other groups from when it was originally setup
Suites - (suite) iLife, iWork
System Configuration - (sys) Packages that modify system preferences or behaviour
User Environment - (ue) Packages that modify user preferences or behaviour
Utilities - (util) Remote Desktop, KeyServer, refit, Stuffit Expander, All those random applications

We also start the name of our packages with the prefix in brackets, at least for those that tolerate being renamed. Some MPKGs don't like that very much. =)

Examples: os-X.5.7(a), office-2008_12.1.9

Craig E

Application Updates

Applications

Applications-Elementary

Applications-Testing

Bootcamp

Games

Internet Addins

Operating Systems

Printers

Restores

Scripted Apps

Scripts

Self Service

SpecED (Licensed)

System Settings

System Updates

Unknown

User Settings

Utlility

-Dusty-

Dustin Dorey

Technology Support Cluster Specialist

Independant School District 196

Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools

dustin.dorey at district196.org

651|423|7971