On the Home tab, in the Properties group, click Properties. In the Configuration Manager console, click Administration > Client Settings > Default Client Settings. For more information about how to create custom device settings, see Configure client settings. If you want these settings to apply to only some computers, create a custom device client setting and deploy it to a collection that contains the computers on which you want to use software metering. This procedure configures the default client settings for software metering and applies to all computers in your hierarchy.
For more information, see Introduction to reporting.
You must configure a reporting services point before you can view software metering reports. See Configure software metering in this topic. You can deploy software metering settings to all computers in the hierarchy, or you can deploy custom settings to groups of computers. To use software metering, the client setting Enable software metering on clients must be enabled and deployed to computers. Software metering has no external dependencies, only dependencies within the product. Software metering does not monitor modern Windows apps (such as those used by Windows 8). Software metering is used to monitor Windows PC desktop apps with a filename ending in.
