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#31

Request New Features or Software (Free Home Updater) / PDFgear

Last post by Bilbrough - April 10, 2024, 02:12:08 PM

This completely free program is getting a lot of traction and I would like to see it as a choice on Patch My PC

#32

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Trying to understand Apps ...

Last post by mdigrego - April 10, 2024, 02:02:30 PM

Thanks, Andrew, that makes sense. And thanks for all the work you do for PMPC!

#33

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Trying to understand Apps ...

Last post by Andrew Jimenez (Patch My PC) - April 10, 2024, 01:58:52 PM

The updates are helpful for situations where you do not know where the software is currently installed. The updates have an applicability rule to determine if the software is installed before it runs the update. This helps simplify things, as you do not have to make a group for each specific update, as you can just deploy the update to "All Devices" or similar, and the updates will only install where they are needed.

We have a KB article describing the different use cases here: https://patchmypc.com/intune-apps-vs-intune-updates

#34

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Trying to understand Apps vs. ...

Last post by mdigrego - April 10, 2024, 11:28:37 AM

I'm trying to determine when/why I would use an app deployment in addition to an update deployment.

For example, if I deploy Google Chrome to a group of computers in Intune and I have the attached settings enabled, will it not keep the app up to date in the same way deploying an app then deploying the "Update for App" win32 app in Intune would? If so, when/why should I use the "Update for Google Chrome" instead of just deploying the latest Google Chrome app and enabling the below settings?

#35

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Do Intune win32 App update...

Last post by mdigrego - April 10, 2024, 11:20:19 AM

Never mind, I found where I can apply it by using the right click options for "All Products" at the top of the list rather than clicking on an individual app. Thanks for your help!

#36

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: OpenVPN - detection fails ...

Last post by Bjerring - April 10, 2024, 09:25:16 AM

I'm going to change the detection script i Intune for now. That will get all old version updated.
Then going forward the default detection script will work again for next updates.

#37

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Do Intune win32 App update...

Last post by mdigrego - April 10, 2024, 09:07:37 AM

Hugo,

Thanks for your reply! I had completely forgotten this feature since it is disabled by default. Is there a "global" default setting that can be applied to all updates? I.e. if I wanted all updates to default to "notify user to close application" is that possible, or would I have to do it on an app by app basis?

#38

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Do Intune win32 App update...

Last post by Hugo Marinho (Patch My PC) - April 10, 2024, 08:37:37 AM

Hi there,

Yes there are, we call it MCP, short for Manage Conflicting Processes, you can choose what should happen if the user is using the software when it needs to update, you can either skip the update, force it to close or simply show a toast notification for the user where he can choose if he wants to close now and update or just snooze the update to retry later.

See more info on this feature by clicking on this link here

Hope to have helped, have a great day!

#39

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Do Intune win32 App updates ch...

Last post by mdigrego - April 10, 2024, 08:29:09 AM

Are there any checks in place that prevent an app update for a PMPC supported app coming from Intune from quitting the app that it is attempting to update if there are any running occurrences of it on the machine?

For example, if I have the Update for Zoom assigned to a group of devices, and the device attempts to install the "app" while a user is currently in a Zoom meeting, will the update quit their running instance of Zoom, or will it just fail and then add a GRS entry in the registry to retry at a later time?

#40

Support and General Questions (Enterprises Using ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: OpenVPN - detection fails ...

Last post by Bjerring - April 10, 2024, 08:15:50 AM

Thanks, but I'm not sure I fully understand how this will help?

I can create my own detection rule that triggers the uninstall script. But as I want to update any existing installations, I would need some way of triggering the PatchMyPC update/install package after the uninstall.

If the user just install the PatchMyPC "OpenVPN" package from intune the existing version is replaced as expected. So I don't think it's an "uninstall" problem. It's a problem with the detection script.

If I change the line below, then the old version of OpenVPN gets detected.

FROM:

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if($_.pschildname-eq($m='{b0168d30-5fdb-49b3-bd29-8f6d87543786}'TO:

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if($_.pschildname-eq($m='OpenVPN'