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Installation date of Software on computer view #378

Open pLeXwithFleX opened 5 months ago

pLeXwithFleX commented 5 months ago

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Is Your Feature Request Related To A Problem? Please describe.

Sometimes it not clear if an software update is the reason for an incident of a user and it would be very useful when you know the installation of the software or the latest update without to open an remote connection to the computer.

Describe The Solution. Why is it needed?

To help this out, I would like to see an installation date of the computer view in ccm. This will be easily possible through the installation date reg value of the uninstall hive from the registry.

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┆Issue is synchronized with this Gitlab issue by Unito

pauby commented 5 months ago

This will be easily possible through the installation date reg value of the uninstall hive from the registry.

I assume you're talking about software? As Chocolatey packages are not only software, how would you see non-software (or software that doesn't put data into the 'uninstall hive') being handled?

pLeXwithFleX commented 3 months ago

Hi pauby, thats a good point I was not thinking about. Maybe there is a way to use the execution date for this case. The reason why I was thinking about to use the installation date of the uninstall hive was the choco sync feature. Then the software was installed through another tool and you wont have an "execution date", but I was not thought about packages which not containing software.

When no installation date is available, maybe chocolatey can falls back to the execution date, but this means that the chocolatey agent have to identify the package run from the log. Or the column will be keep empty for these type of packages.

pauby commented 3 months ago

I wonder if we could bring the date the package was installed through to the view. That doesn't give you the software installed date if it's installed outside of Chocolatey CLI management. If you are using CCM then, you would be managing everything using Chocolatey products, so that may be more useful?

pLeXwithFleX commented 3 months ago

Hi pauby, how do you mean that "If you are using CCM then, you would be managing everything using Chocolatey products, so that may be more useful?"

Im using CCM, but it does not provide me this information. Im missing the information on the computer view page. We have a scheduled daily deployment plan which updates most of the installed software. If I want to know when a update was installed, I currently can only watching through all finished deployment plans and have to search for the computer.

I hope you understanding what I meaning :-)

pauby commented 3 months ago

What I meant was that we could look to add the date the package was installed rather than look at the software. As you would be managing everything with Chocolatey products, you will be managing everything as packages. So using package data (in this case installation date) makes most sense, to me.

pLeXwithFleX commented 3 months ago

I see and agree. This is fine to me.