Application Catalog roles
Here we will cover both the Application Catalog website point and the Application Catalog web service point, as these roles are used together to provide the functionality of the Application Catalog to our end users. For clarification, this is the self-service web portal that our users can connect to in order to install the applications that we have made available to them. This should not be confused with the Software Center, which is available by default on all Configuration Manager client machines and allows installation of software that was made available to our device.
Application Catalog website point
Like many roles in Configuration Manager, this site role is a web application that is hosted on Internet Information Services (IIS) and therefore many of the same troubleshooting approaches used with any web application will apply. We can use the standard HTTP error code list from our troubleshooting toolkit in Chapter 1, The Configuration Manager Troubleshooting...