Difference between SASMC installed on server and workstation

[Nigel_Pain]

SAS 9.4M8 on Windows Server 2019 platforms and Windows 11 clients

Is there any reason for a difference between what I can see in SAS Management Console installed on one of our servers and what I can see on a Windows 11 laptop? In both cases they are installed from our software depot so I would expect them to be the same. But the Application Management plugin has no contents on the laptop, whilst it has the Configuration Manager and Deployment Tester on the servers. Also (just cosmetic) the fonts are quite different in size. I'm guessing that's a JRE setting but it's the same version of Zulu Java (which has been flagged as having vulnerabilities but that's another story!)

Laptop:

Server:

Thanks

[ronf_sas · Accepted solution]

The SAS Deployment Tester plugin and the Configuration Manager get installed as part of a planned deployment (using a plan file), which would be how your server was deployed.  On the workstation, if you installed SMC without using a plan file (Install Additional  Software) then you would not get SAS Deployment Tester plugin (client) and  Configuration Manager manager unless you explicitly checked the boxes for them on the Products to Install panel of the SAS Deployment Wizard.

I'm unsure about the fonts thing.  Possibly just a difference at the OS level.

[Nigel_Pain]

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks @ronf_sas