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Use the BigFix Software Distribution applications to deploy software to endpoints across your network from a single location. Maintain control and visibility into software delivery and installation. Device owners can use the Self Service Application to manage software and other BigFix actions that are deployed to them as offers.
Software Distribution User's Guide
BigFix Software Distribution is a part of the Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy software throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution delivers cost-effective operational control and visibility to your software delivery and installation process.
Best practices
Learn how to best optimize your use of BigFix Software Distribution.
Authorization
Test the installation of software under the systems management account.

Software Distribution
Use the BigFix Software Distribution applications to deploy software to endpoints across your network from a single location. Maintain control and visibility into software delivery and installation. Device owners can use the Self Service Application to manage software and other BigFix actions that are deployed to them as offers.
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- Software Distribution User's Guide
  BigFix Software Distribution is a part of the Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy software throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution delivers cost-effective operational control and visibility to your software delivery and installation process.
  - Overview
    The Software Distribution application is part of the BigFix Software Distribution Systems Lifecycle Management suite. This application enables organizations to improve management of their desktop software distribution processes from a single, unified point of control, and storage-optimized library.
  - Best practices
    Learn how to best optimize your use of BigFix Software Distribution.
    - Policy-based distributions
      Use client settings to drive the installation of packages through policies.
    - Authorization
      Test the installation of software under the systems management account.
    - Prerequisites
      BigFix provides a powerful baseline concept that solves the dependency chain problem of prerequisite software.
    - Site organization
      Use custom sites to organize your generated tasks to improve performance and usability.
  - Dashboards overview
    BigFix Software Distribution provides several dashboards for managing software distribution tasks in your deployment.
  - Managing packages
    You can bundle software distribution content into packages for faster deployment.
  - Managing Application Management Groups
    Group software distribution tasks and client computers for faster deployment, especially in large networks.
  - Frequently asked questions
    This section is designed to help you better understand BigFix Software Distribution through questions and answers.

Authorization

Test the installation of software under the systems management account.

On a Windows™ system, BigFix defaults to installing software in the LocalSystem account. On a Mac OS X, Linux™, or UNIX™ system, software is installed in the root account. Therefore, always test software installations under these accounts to ensure that they work correctly.

If a software package does not install under LocalSystem, run the runascurrentuser.exe tool to use the rights of the current user. To automate this action, create Fixlets with the Software Distribution dashboard.