This idea covers 2 things:
- Disabling certain tools for users
- Pushing out other tools
Disabling;
- If we want to disable a particular tool for everyone or for specific users - then we need to go to every single deployed machine and adjust settings or delete some DLLs.
- What we would need is to be able to take a user / group of users - and de-select certain tools or apply limits
- In our corporate environment - every designer needs to check in with the server before fully starting up. If it cannot connect to the server, it needs to terminate gracefully
- As the designer logs in - the first negotiated conversation is "What tools and capabilities and standard default settings should I have"
Pushing Out:
- If a useful tool is brought into our environment (like the JIRA connector here: https://gallery.alteryx.com/#!app/JIRA-Connector/58d87c2feffc2a0dd0b5ed8f or the CREW macros) - we want to be able to push these out to all the users
- Again - every designer checks in with the server first
- Then negotiates tools
- then downloads any missing tools or updates new versions of existing tools.
This kind of central server capability is essential in any enterprise deployment of several hundred seats.