Bulk Actions for Patch My PC Cloud Deployments

Applies to: Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud

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The Bulk Actions functionality of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud allows you to select multiple deployments to perform a management action on, versus having to repeat the same action on each deployment individually.

To use Bulk Actions:

1

Navigate to Deployments

Navigate to the Deployments node of the Cloud Portal.

2

Either select all or a subset

Either select all or select a subset

Click the select all checkbox in the top-left corner to select all of the deployments on the current page.

All deployments on the current page are now selected (unchecking the select all checkbox unchecks all deployments on the current page).

Important

The select all option does not work with deployments with a Status of In Progress. You also cannot manually select a deployment that is In Progress.

Tip

If your list of deployments spans multiple pages, you can navigate to the next page and click the select all checkbox to select all deployments on that page as well. You can repeat this process to select all of your deployments.

3

Select a subset

To select a subset of deployments, click the checkbox beside all of the deployments you wish to perform an action on.

4

Perform the required bulk action

Notice that regardless of which option you use, the number of selected deployments appears beside the Search box, along with the bulk actions toolbar of actions you can perform on the selected deployments.

At this point, you can perform the following actions on all of the selected deployments:

• Resume paused deployments

• Pause deployments from updating

• Recreate selected deployments

• Sync selected deployments now

• Delete the selected deployments

Resume paused deployments

If the Pause Updates feature of PMPC Cloud has been configured for an app that has since been updated, and you want to bring the app up to date to the latest version, you need to disable pause updates by resuming updates to the deployment.

Note

You can only resume updates for deployments that have already been paused.

When you click the Resume Updates button (), the Resume Updates Deployments dialog appears, warning you that you are about to resume updates for the number of deployments you selected, and that new versions of the apps within these deployments will be deployed according to the configuration of each individual deployment.

Note

If you select a deployment that has not already been paused along with a deployment(s) that has, only the paused deployment is resumed.

Click Confirm to continue.

The Resume Updates in Progress dialog is shown for each deployment as it is resumed.

Once all of the deployments have been resumed, the Resume Updates Completed dialog is shown, which you can close by clicking Close.

The Deployments home page updates to show that the deployment(s) is no longer paused (the UPDATES PAUSED text has been removed for the selected deployments).

Note

See Resume Updates for more information on resuming updates to a paused deployment.

Pause deployments from updating

The Pause Updates feature (disabled by default) of PMPC Cloud allows you to prevent an app that’s previously been successfully deployed from being updated whenever a new version is released.

When you click the Pause Updates button (), the Pause Deployments dialog appears, warning you that you are pausing updates for the number of deployments you selected, and that the apps deployed using these deployments will no longer receive automatic updates.

Click Confirm to continue.

The Pause in Progress dialog is shown for each deployment as it is paused.

Once all of the deployments have been paused, the Pause Completed dialog is shown, which you can close by clicking Close.

The Deployments home page updates to show UPDATES PAUSED for the selected deployments.

Note

See Pause Updates for more information on pausing updates to a deployment.

Recreate selected deployments

Recreating a deployment in PMPC Cloud deletes the software from Intune and recreates it, which retriggers the deployment on the targeted resources.

When you click the Recreate button (), the Recreate Deployments dialog appears, warning you that you are about to recreate the selected deployments using their selected configuration, which will replace the existing deployments whilst maintaining their settings and assignments.

Click Confirm to continue.

The Recreate in Progress dialog is shown for each deployment as it is recreated.

Once all of the deployments have been recreated, the Recreate Completed dialog is shown, which you can close by clicking Close.

The Deployments home page updates to show first the deployment with an In Progress status whilst it is being recreated,followed by a Success status once it has been recreated successfully.

Note

See Recreate a Deployment for more information on recreating a deployment.

Important

Since you can only recreate 20 deployments at a time, selecting more than 20 causes the Recreate button to become unavailable, as the tooltip explains.

Sync selected deployments now

The Sync Now feature of PMPC Cloud forces an immediate update of an app rather than waiting for the next occurrence of your Sync Schedule (this is typically used after updates to a deployment have been resumed).

When you click the Sync Now button (), the Update Deployments dialog appears, warning you that you are about to update the version for the selected deployments, which will be updated to the latest version.

Click Confirm to continue.

The Update in Progress dialog is shown for each deployment as it is updated.

Once all of the deployments have been updated, the Update Completed dialog is shown, which you can close by clicking Close.

The Deployments home page is redisplayed.

Note

See Sync Now for more information on syncing deployments.

Delete selected deployments

Deleting a deployment from PMPC Cloud deletes the packaged win32 app from Intune.

Important

Deleting a deployment does not trigger the uninstall of the software on the targeted resources. If you want to uninstall the software that the deleted deployment deployed, you will need to create a new deployment with the relevant uninstall assignments to do this.

Also, since you can only delete 20 deployments at a time, selecting more than 20 causes the Delete button to become unavailable, as the tooltip explains.

Select the deployment(s) you want to delete and click the Delete button.

The Delete Deployments dialog appears, warning you that you are going to permanently delete the selected deployments.

Click Confirm to continue.

The Delete in Progress dialog is shown for each deployment as it is deleted.

Once all of the deployments have been deleted, the Delete Completed dialog is shown, which you can close by clicking Close.

The Deployments home page updates to show the deployments have been deleted

Note

See Delete a Deployment for more information on deleting a deployment.