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Thanks for the response! Looking forward to seeing more fully automated apps being supported in PMPC soon.

I reached out to the owner of Squadra Technologies and requested a permanent download URL for secRMM, as this is a manual download in Patch My PC and is hidden behind a registration portal. He agreed to create a URL, and for it to be used in the Patch My PC catalog, to allow for automatic downloads.

The URL is https://squadratechnologies.com/Products/secRMM/secRMMDownloadAutomatic.aspx

He's setup a variable for the desired platform too (x64, x86 or x64IntuneWin). So, for example, you can go directly to https://squadratechnologies.com/Products/secRMM/secRMMDownloadAutomatic.aspx?platform=x64 to download the product.

Is it possible for this to be added to the catalog to save people time getting it manually?

The latest update seems to have removed the URLs of the products that failed to download. Some domains are blocked for security reasons and I have to download them from a secure machine, however, with the logs file no longer showing the URL of the software it tried to download, this task has been made significantly more difficult.

I even submitted a feature request last year: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-2221, in an attempt to try and improve what we had before, by including the URLs in the email report for better visibility. Instead, it's been made worse and I'm left searching for random bits of software to get them downloaded and patched.

I'm losing all the time PMPC is meant to be saving me.

I've installed preview version 2.1.9.17 and it has resolved the issue of backups not saving correctly.

Thanks for your help on this.

I've installed the update, but it requires a reboot. I will schedule it for tonight and report back tomorrow.

The certificate used to sign "PatchMyPC-ScriptRunner.exe" has apparently expired as of September 8th, 2022. As a result, patches are getting blocked by our AV, as the EXE is no longer approved.

How do we resolve this issue?

I've just installed 2.1.8.0 and I'm still receiving the same error:

An error occurred while copying the settings file to the backup folder: Could not find file 'D:\Program Files\Patch My PC\Patch My PC Publishing Service\Backup\Settings2022-10-12T10_13_51.cab'.

I've just noticed the backup of settings has stopped working since September 30th, and I'm getting the below error. There are 100 files in that folder, and it appears to have just stopped working.

An error occurred while copying the settings file to the backup folder: Could not find file 'D:\Program Files\Patch My PC\Patch My PC Publishing Service\Backup\Settings10_7_2022 3_50_40 AM.cab'.

I'm running version 2.1.6.0 on Windows Server 2019.

Apologies, I totally forgot about the feature request page. Feel free to delete this thread if necessary.

I've submitted my idea now.

Whenever I receive the Publishing Service Reports there are often multiple failed downloads, as we block some domains for security reasons (GitHub, etc.).

To save me time when I'm downloading them manually, would it be possible to include the download URL within the report as well? Currently, it only links to the change log of the application, which is nice, but I would also appreciate being able to download all those applications with a single click from within the email itself.

Thanks Adam, I ran another sync and I can see it appearing in the log now. I guess I was too impatient.

I've been synchronising PMPC but I still don't see the out of band patch for Firefox 97.02 which addresses zero-day vulnerabilities, will this be getting released via PMPC?

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/03/05/firefox-patches-two-in-the-wild-exploits-update-now/

Thanks for clearing this up, it must be an issue with our app control rules. We'll take a look at it and create some new ones.

We use a white-listing app (Carbon Black App Control) in our environment and have specific rules setup to allow these update to installations. Recently, we've been inundated with blocks for Notepad++ 8.1.9 which is now installing from "C:\Windows\softwaredistribution\download\install" instead of CCMCACHE.

Has this install behavior changed recently?

That's what I was thinking, but I tried browsing to it manually and the downloads work without any issues.

Edit - I was testing it under my own account but the publisher was using a restricted account, so my mistake. The network team has resolved this by applying a rule to our firewall.