Client Management Suite

App Metering is working to deny Google using these settings; Company Name - Google*, Internal Name - Google*, Prod Name - Google* , etc...

However, I want to enable the use of Google Chrome (Internal Name - chrome_exe) for a select collection of computers. The probem is that the Google Chrome executable is being blocked by my Google* policy because of similiar Company Name, etc.... I thought that App Metering would be smart enough to deduce that two Google policies are in conflict, one deny and one allow, and allow only the appl with the specific Internal Name.

I know that I can remove all the fat from the Google* policy and just deny google applications specifically by product name and internal name but that's alot of work. I wish there was an exclusion tab on a policy. Any ideas?

thx

Sounds like a good Idea to create in the Ideas section. App Meeting has never been much for exceptions, and it definitely isn't "smart" in any case! :) I have also wanted am to process the audit plus exclusions (so you could define a list of things you know you don't want, but meter everything else).

LOL. Thanks Kyle for responding. The real problem is that I have to snag a list of Google apps, their product names and internal names. I've also seen where an application is installed prior to metering and now the upgrade program launches but also is blocked. Notifications are a problem in this situation.

You could also push out a script to disable or remove the GoogleUpdate service (not sure of the exact name) which might help with updating issues.  As for getting a list of all the internal names, you could run the following:

SELECT [InternalName], [ProductVersion], [ProductName], count(*)
FROM Inv_AeX_SW_Audit_Software sw
WHERE Manufacturer LIKE 'Google%'
GROUP BY [InternalName], [ProductVersion], [ProductName]
ORDER BY 4 DESC