SCCM 1606 Software Centre Old and New Best of Both Worlds

SCCM  1606 Software Centre Changes

SCCM (ConfigMgr) 1511 has introduced new software center.  Some organisation might face challenges to deploy new software center. However, you can use run both software center side by side. 

 New Software Center executable is located under C:\Windows\CCM\ClientUX\scclient.exe.




















You can still continue to use old software center and application catalog using old Software Centre. Simply publish another shortcut to all users pointing to C:\Windows\CCM\SCClient.exe. This might helpful to the organisation who is heavily using Software Centre\ Aplication catalog and user training / change management could be daunting task. 

 You can run both Software Center side by side.

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