Howdy,
We've never used the Application Catalog at our company. Everything we do we just do via Software Center. We have application configured as Available but they are published to Device Collections and not User Collections. Is there any benefit to using one over the other?
For example, we have some basic software that everyone has access to like 7Zip or Greenshot. We have them deployed to our "All Workstations" collection as opposed to the "All Users" collection. This makes it show up in Software center by default. I don't know if there's any benefit to changing things to use the App Catalog for any reason or not.
The only benefit I've found is that if I assign an app to a user, it shows up in the App Catalog instantly whereas if I assign it to their workstation they have to either wait for it to show up in Software Center or go run the various things under Configuration Manager to try to force it down.
Just looking to see if there's any reason for us to change how we deploy things or not.
Thanks!