Patch My PC Client

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Patch My PC (PMPC) Client allows you to retrieve data from a computer enrolled into Intune and report it back to your PMPC Cloud company. This data can then be viewed and worked with as part of the Reporting feature.

Prerequisites

Before installing the Client, ensure:

  1. You are using the PMPC Portal and it is connected to your Intune tenant.

  2. Your PMPC company is connected to the same Intune tenant that is used to manage the devices from which you want to gather your reporting data.

  3. You are using PMPC Cloud to deploy and manage your third-party apps, updates and Custom Apps.

  4. You have installed the correct version of the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime on any devices on which you want to install the agent.

Install the PMPC Client

To install the Patch My PC (PMPC) Client:

  1. Navigate to Settings | Client Deployment The Client Deployment screen is shown, which is split into two sections:

    1. Preview Version Deployment – Shows details of the preview version of our Client and which Entra ID groups it is targeted to (if relevant).

    2. Production Version Deployment - Shows details of the production version of our Client and which Entra ID groups it is targeted to (if relevant).

  2. To deploy the Client (Preview or Production), click the Groups dropdown and select the relevant Entra ID groups you want to deploy the Client to, then click Save. The Success notification is shown.

Once the Win32 app for the Client has been created in Intune, the status updates to Success and the Client will be deployed to the targeted devices.

As the Client is installed on the targeted devices, the number of Devices Managed shown in the Dashboard will increase.

Uninstall the PMPC Client

To uninstall the Patch My PC (PMPC) Client:

  1. Navigate to Settings | Client Deployment

  2. Click the Groups dropdown beside the relevant version of the Client you want to uninstall (Preview or Production) and select the relevant Entra ID groups you want to uninstall the Client from, then click Save

Note

See Add groups to organize users and devices for more details on creating and working with groups in Intune.

The Success notification is shown.

The Client will then be removed from the selected devices.

As the Client is uninstalled from the targeted devices, the number of Devices Managed shown in the Dashboard will decrease.

Updating the Client

When a new version of our Client is released, any existing Clients will be automatically updated.

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