ESP Profiles (optional)

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The ESP Profiles tool (optional) of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to configure your deployments created in our portal to be part of one or more profiles configured on the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) of the Microsoft Intune admin center.

Note

See Set up the Enrollment Status Page for more details about the ESP and working with ESP profiles.

To configure a PMPC Cloud deployment to use an ESP Profile:

1. Ensure the ESP Profile(s) you want this deployment to belong to has already been created in Intune.

Note

At the time of writing, Intune supports a maximum of 51 profiles plus the default profile (so 52 in total) per tenant.

1. Click the ESP Profiles tool.

   

2. Scroll down to the ESP Profiles section.

   

3. In the Add Profile field, either:

   1. Start typing the name of the relevant ESP Profile, then click the checkbox beside it to select it.

   2. Click the dropdown to see a list of existing ESP Profiles and click the

Note

If an ESP Profile already contains the maximum of 100 apps, you will be unable to select it from the dropdown. If you hover over it, you'll see the Total limit reached tooltip.

The selected ESP Profile(s) are added to the Add Profile field.

Tip

You can click the X beside an ESP Profile in the Add Profile field to delete it from the list.

Also, the number in brackets shows the number of apps currently added to an ESP Profile, with 100 being the maximum.

Note

See Check ESP Profiles for details on how to check within Intune that a PMPC Cloud deployment has been successfully added to an ESP Profile.

1. Repeat this process to add any additional ESP Profiles.

Note

To avoid potential conflicts, we highly recommend you create all of the deployments within the PMPC Cloud portal and use the ESP Profiles feature to control which apps belong to which ESP profiles. You should only use the Enrollment Status Page in the Intune admin center to create an ESP Profile.

Other important points about ESP Profiles:

• They are currently unavailable on macOS.

• Different ESP Profile can be used in different Update Rings if required.

• If you edit an ESP Profile that is used in a deployment that uses Update Rings, the changes will only be applied to the version of the deployment that is applied to the ring with the lowest delay.

• If during a Sync Schedule the number of apps within an ESP Profile exceeds 100, we do not fail the deployment. The deployment will be completed with any new versions being assigned. However, we will display a warning indicator in the portal and the message “Failed to add application with version “<version_number>” to “<esp_profile_name>”.

1. If you do not want to configure any of the optional tabs under the Tools section, click Next to move to the Assignments tab. Otherwise, click on the relevant tab under Tools to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant process.