Refresh Discovery Data

How to manually refresh the discovery data in Patch My PC Cloud

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

By default, you have to wait a week for the discovery data in your portal to refresh. Rather than waiting up to a week you can refresh the data in the Discovery node every 24 hours to pick up any changes.

To manually refresh the data in the Discovery node:

1. Navigate to the Discovery node.

2. If the Refresh Data button is available, click it and go to Step 4.

   

3. If the Refresh Data button is unavailable, note the value of the Last Sync time. If it has been less than 24 hours since discovery last ran successfully, the Refresh Data button will be unavailable. Once 24 hours have passed, the Refresh Data button will be available.

Note

The Last Sync time is the time when the last sync completed successfully, which is then converted to your local browser time and shown to you in the UI.

4. The Refresh Data button changes to Collecting Data whilst discovery runs.

   
5. Currently, when the discovery process completes the portal does not auto-refresh. So periodically press F5 to refresh the portal.

6. Once discovery finishes running, the Last Sync time gets updated and the Refresh Data button becomes unavailable.

   

Tip

If you look in the Events node, you will see the Intune Discovered Applications Refreshed event which is created whenever someone clicks Refresh Data to refresh your discovery data.