SCCM - How to make new deployed applications appear in Software Center faster?

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Published on 2014-07-18T22:02:04Z Indexed on 2014/08/20 10:24 UTC
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I am trying to make the process between SCCM deployments and the Software Center (configmgr) faster, if not seamless.

Right now, applications generally take about 1-2 hours to populate properly. However, by going to the "Configuration Manager" under the Windows Control Panel, there is an "Actions" tab. Generally 5 minutes after running these "Actions", the software will populate inside the Software Center.

The downside of this is the user interaction with the "Actions" pane...I can't have a user going through this process when they request a new application that needs to be deployed through SCCM.

I have have played around with using "net stop ccmexec" and "net start ccmexec" to manually run all of these "Actions" on the start command, but it feels a bit archaic. Does anyone have any suggestions how to speed this process up? I feel there is something simple I am missing.

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