Discovery Overview
Overview of the Patch My PC Cloud discovery feature
The Discovery feature of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud allows you to see which apps in our App Catalog are installed in your environment, including any Binary Free Apps or Custom Apps you may have added.
Once an app has been discovered, you can decide whether to manage it using PMPC Cloud.
How Discovery Works
When you connect your PMPC Cloud Company to your Intune tenant, we retrieve the latest copy of Intune’s discovered apps report, which contains an inventory of all installed apps on your devices.
Note
See Intune discovered apps for more information on the Intune weekly scan.
This report includes the following information about each app:
Name
Version
Device count (how many devices the app is installed on)
Vendor i.e. who publishes the app.
We then perform a mapping process of the report’s contents (based on the Intune app name and app version properties) to check if each app matches a publicly available app in our App Catalog or any Custom/Binary Free Apps you have uploaded.
If there is a match, the app is marked as either:
Unmanaged – Apps identified as being in our App Catalog but aren’t currently managed by us as there is no matching deployment in our portal.
Managed – Apps identified as being in our App Catalog and are currently managed by PMPC Cloud (not our on-prem Publisher) as there is a matching deployment in our portal.
Note
When our scan runs, no event is written to the Events node.
Any matching apps are shown on the relevant tab of the Discovery node.
Tip
If you look in the Events node, you will see the Intune Application Discovered event which is created the first time Discovery is run in your PMPC Company.
Subsequent Scans
Intune only updates its discovered apps report once a week. Because of this, PMPC Cloud will initially query Discovery data for your tenant once a week, randomly selecting a day between 1 AM and 5 AM based on the time zone of your PMPC company. All subsequent weekly updates will occur on the same day and time as the first discovery collection.
Important
If you create a deployment for an Unmanaged app, you will only see it move to the Managed tab either:
On the following Sunday (after the update scan runs)
When you follow the Refresh Discovery Data process.
Note
When our query runs, no event is written to the Events node.
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