Ninite Pro is great. Had a user who wanted to try out a piece of software. It supports silent install. User had downloaded it, but that would mean finding a mutually agreeable time, calling them, getting remote access, getting the admin password, and wouldn’t be repeatable.

But with Ninite Pro I just download the app and upload it as a custom app. It can often work out the silent switches itself, I run a test install on my machine, and having verified that, I just deploy it to the user’s machine. Quick, repeatable, no productivity loss for the user.

And if I ever need to install it elsewhere, it’s already good to go. Just need the computer switched on and connected to the internet.

Before I could use custom apps with Ninite Pro, software deployment was manual or through group policy.

Software deployment through group policy can work, but it causes issues when people aren’t connected to the domain, or the network isn’t present at boot.

Many times I’d deploy something, then I’d need to keep checking to see how the deployment was doing and pick up stragglers.

That took hours of time, all in. Now I can deploy software in ten minutes, while I wait for my pizza to cook.

I took longer typing this thread explaining the process than I spent deploying.

Not sure I can pass tweets off as work though!