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Techsmith snagit pricing user tiers2/18/2023 Let’s go over to “Update Options.”Maybe we want to uncheck “Enable automated update checking.” If you’re deploying from a corporate level, you’re probably deciding when the updates should happen, not your five or ten thousand end users. While we’re here, we can right click and “Disable whole tab in target application,”make it so that the user can’t click in the tab and therefore get trapped in these little nooks and crannies. You can check or uncheck things if you’re so inclined. If there’s anything you want to configure here, feel free. Well, actually, remember we talked about how a user could get caught up in “Program Options,” so we want to make sure that they can’t. What we’re after here is “PolicyPak for Snagit Main Program.” We’ll right click over, click “Edit…” here and we’ll dive down under user side “PolicyPak/Applications/New/Application.”I’ve got a lot of different applications I could manage. When you’re ready to go, we’re going to go to our “East Sales Users” by way of example and “Create a GPO.”We’re going to call this “Manage Snagit using Group Policy and PolicyPak.” What you’re going to do is simply take our preconfigured, precompiled PolicyPaks and “Copy here” into your management console. What we’re going to is copy those files into “C:\Program Files\PolicyPak\Extensions.”I’ll bring that up. There is the “pp-Snagit Main Application.dll” and also the “pp-Snagit-Editor.dll.” Let’s go ahead and let’s start with our “PreConfigured PolicyPaks”here. Not just these handful of settings, every setting. But what PolicyPak additionally brings to the table is being able to deliver and disable any setting inside of Snagit. We’ve included these inside our PolicyPak, and I’m going to show those to you. While we’re here, I also want to point out that there are a handful of “Features that Can Be Disabled” that TechSmith provided. We can deliver the setting and guarantee that users won’t work around it. What happens when a user works around that setting? Well, that is what PolicyPak can do. But even then, let’s say you do go through the motion of setting up what’s called an MST file and guaranteeing or delivering those settings immediately upon software delivery. That’s exactly what we’re going to do with PolicyPak. Now if you want to go through all that, well fantastic. It also gives you some advice on how to, when you deploy it, inject some settings into your initial deployment. It shows you how to deploy Snagit using, say, things like Group Policy or SMS or whatever technology you want to us. I’ll go ahead and close that out, “Exit Snagit.” We’ll go over to my Group Policy Management Console.īefore I do that, I do want to show that the folks at TechSmith have a really great Snagit “Enterprise Installation Guide.” I really encourage you to read through that. Let’s go ahead and close this out, and let’s go ahead and try to do those things using PolicyPak real fast. Or, for instance, saying “No, thank you.” at the corporate level to improving Snagit. If anything here is important to you, like removing “Enable automated update checking,” that might be important to you, we can do that. We’ve figured out how to deploy all of these settings using PolicyPak and also lock them down. That, my friends, is what PolicyPak does.Īny setting that’s available here in any of these tabs is something that PolicyPak can do. Now if you could only magically deliver the settings and lock them down so users can’t work around it, well then you’d have something. If we go to “Tools/Program Preferences…,” the unfortunate truth is that while this is a killer application, unfortunately users can get caught up in some of the options in here, get confused and lose their way, and that means a help desk call for you to run down there and fix it. You don’t want people to be able to check for upgrade.Maybe you also want to disable “Register Snagit Online” like we just talked about and maybe some other options. For instance, you probably want to remove the “Check for Upgrade.” That’s probably pretty important. Let’s actually go over some other options as well. But if you have one, five, ten, a thousand or ten thousand copies of Snagit in your enterprise and you’re employing it using the enterprise deployment technologies that you might have, you probably want to manage Snagit in a more refined way.įor instance, you probably don’t want this “Registration” dialogue to come up at first start by way of example. This is the experience that a regular user would have as soon as they log on. I’m a big fan of Snagit, so I’m very happy that we’re able to create a PolicyPak for it. In this video, we’re going to learn how to manage TechSmith’s Snagit using Group Policy and PolicyPak. This is Jeremy Moskowitz, Microsoft MVP, Enterprise Mobility and Founder of PolicyPak Software. Manage TechSmith’s SnagIT with PolicyPak video transcript
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