Automate software reclamation in SAM

[Juraj3]

The objective is to automatically remove users from Active Directory groups when they are identified as software reclamation candidates for selected software titles.

The idea would be to create a scheduled job that checks all filtered candidates in the samp_sw_reclamation_candidate table. The script would then use the existing Azure API to remove those candidates from the corresponding group.

Does this sound like a good workaround?  I’m concerned about how to update the candidate records, as there is a workflow behind them and we want to keep everything fully automated.

[dreinhardt]

Hi @Juraj3 , why didn’t you adjust the Reclamation to remove the user from the groups as last step of the reclamation process? 

Best, Dennis

[fknell]

Hey @Juraj3! For automatic reclamation you have to use CSD 2.0 (Docs) with SAMP, it's a store App and part of the SAM entitlement. Without CSD installed the tasks should be assigned to a group to manually fulfill the uninstall. 

Is there a reason why you want to implement a workaround rather than using the default behavior?

[dreinhardt]

@Juraj3, correct CSD 2.0 is a good choice. What I do not like it the limitation, that you can reclaim only software which was deployed with CSD 2.0 😕 How did you challenge this?

[fknell]

I would recommend to manually or periodically create the relevant software installation "Requested Software" records and map them to respective table CSD table.