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Application Catalog Web Service Point
Application Catalog Web Service Point
This part will describe how to install the SCCM Application Catalog web service point and the Application Catalog website point. Both of these roles are now unsupported. We do not recommend adding this role to your hierarchy.
The application catalogue’s Silverlight user experience isn’t supported as of current branch version 1806. Starting in version 1906, updated clients automatically use the management point for user-available application deployments. You also can’t install new application catalogue roles. Support ends for the application catalogue roles with version 1910.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
The Application Catalog web service point provides software information to the Application Catalog website from the Software Library.
The Application Catalog website point provides users with a list of available software.
This is not a mandatory site system but you need both the Application Catalog website point and the Application Catalog web service point if you want to provide your user with a Self-Service application catalog (web portal).
SITE SYSTEM ROLE PLACEMENT IN HIERARCHY
The Application Catalog web service point and the Application Catalog website point are hierarchy-wide options. It’s supported to install those roles on a stand-alone Primary site or child Primary site. It’s not supported to install it on a Central Administration site or Secondary site. The ACWSP must reside in the same forest as the site database.
If you’re having less than 10,000 users in your company, co-locating the Application Catalog web service and Application Catalog website roles on the same server should be ok. The web service role connects directly to the SCCM SQL database so ensure that the network connectivity between the SQL server and the Application Catalog web service servers is robust.
If you have more geographically distributed users, consider deploying additional application catalogs to keep responsiveness high and user satisfaction up. Use client settings to configure collections of computers to use different Application Catalog servers.
Read more on how to provide a great application catalog experience to your user in this Technet blog article.
If your client needs HTTPS connections, you must first deploy a web server certificate to the site system. If you need to allow Internet clients to access the application catalog, you also need to deploy a web server certificate to the Management Point configured to support Internet clients. When supporting Internet clients, Microsoft recommends that you install the Application Catalog website point in a perimeter network, and the ACWSP on the intranet. For more information about certificates see the following Technet article.
SCCM APPLICATION CATALOG INSTALLATION
For this post, we will be installing both roles on our stand-alone Primary site using HTTP connections. If you split the roles between different machines, do the installation section twice, once for the first site system (selecting ACWSP during role selection)and a second time on the other site system (selecting Application Catalog website point during role selection).
- Open the SCCM console
- Navigate to Administration / Site Configuration / Servers and Site System Roles
- Right-click your Site System and click Add Site System Roles
- On the General tab, click Next
o In the IIS Website and Web application name fields,leave both to the default values
o This is just the name that you’ll see in IIS after the installation (see next screenshot). It has nothing to do with your user facing portal
o Enter the port and protocol that you want to use
o In the IIS Website keep the default value
o In Web application name, enter the name that you want for your Application Catalog. This is the URL that will be published to your users
o Enter the port and protocol that you want to use
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