Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

If the Pause Updates feature of Patch My PC (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.

To resume updates for an app:

1. Click on the relevant deployment that has been paused.

1. Click the Pause Updates slider to disable it.

1. Click the X to close the deployment properties page.

   The list of deployments is displayed without UPDATES PAUSED under the deployment you just unpaused.

Updates for this app are now resumed.

You now need to decide how you want to install any updates for this app:

• Install the updates now – If you want to install the updates as soon as possible, follow the process.

• Wait for the nightly sync to run – If you are happy to wait for the updates to be installed the next time the daily sync runs (at 2 am by default), you do not need to do anything.

Applies to: All Patch My PC Products

To help you easily locate the Release notes for each Patch My PC (PMPC) product, links to the respective pages are included below:

• Publisher

• Cloud (includes Advanced/Patch Insights for Intune)

Official product documentation for Patch My PC Cloud

Official product documentation for Patch My PC

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

This section contains various deployment-related articles for Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud supports deploying apps and updates to the following app types and platforms:

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Configurations tab of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to configure various configuration settings grouped into sections known as Tools.

These tools allow you to configure various settings for the deployment.

These are two types of Tools:

• included in every deployment as they contain the most common settings.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

If your deployments are using and both the deployments for the child and parent apps have Update Rings enabled, the following behavior occurs:

• Each version of an app for the child deployment with update rings enabled must depend on the parent app with the version related to the last ring of the parent deployment.

• When the last ring of the parent app is updated to a new version, we also move over the dependencies associated with the last ring.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To sort Deployments in Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud:

On the Deployments page, click the relevant column heading to sort the entries by this column.

The column heading will be highlighted and a small arrow will show you whether the results are displayed in ascending or descending order.

To sort by a different column, just click the column name.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The following is a list of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud Preview Features.

Links to the relevant documentation are included when available.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To use Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, you need:

• An Internet connection that can access Microsoft Azure services and the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud Platform (https://portal.patchmypc.com/).

• A Microsoft Entra ID tenant

• An Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Premium, or Managed Service Provider (MSP) Plus subscription.

• A minimum of two users, who will be granted privileges within PMPC Cloud.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud supports the following methods for deploying apps:

• Deploying an App we can auto-update from our App Catalog

• Deploying an App we cannot auto-update from our App Catalog

Deploying an App we can auto-update from our App Catalog

The PMPC App Catalog contains apps for which there is a publicly accessible download of the installer that we can deploy and update. In the majority of cases, you should use the process to deploy your apps.

Deploying an App, we cannot auto-update from our App Catalog

Some apps do not publish a publicly accessible download. These are typically apps:

• You need to pay for.

• The installer is behind a paywall that requires an individual login and password.

• The vendor uses a compressed file for its installer.

We refer to such apps as Binary-free apps and you should follow the process.

Using Custom Apps to deploy a custom EXE or MSI

If you have your own installer (EXE or MSI) that you want to deploy, then you should follow the and processes.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployments include the following standard tools :

• Install Parameters

• Conflicting Processes

You can configure settings by either scrolling down the page until you find the relevant section or by clicking the relevant tool heading.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Install Parameters tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to configure various installation parameters and arguments.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The App Info tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to define default values for items that will be included in the app’s metadata when it is packaged to Intune.

Any values set for the following items will appear in the app’s properties when viewed in the Intune admin center:

• Vendor* - The vendor of the app.

• Owner – The name of the owner of this app.

• Description* - A description of the app.

• Notes – Notes about the app that we send to Intune when we create a deployment.

• Information URL - Link to a website or documentation that has more information about the app.

• Privacy URL - A link for people who want to learn more about the app's privacy settings and terms

• Developer – The name/contact details of the developer as this is a plain text field.

• Set App as Featured - If checked, allows this app to appear as a featured app in the Company Portal. Once the app has been deployed, the Show this as a featured app in the Company Portal setting on the app’s properties should be set to Yes in the Intune admin center.

* denotes a required field

To manage the App Info for a Deployment:

1. Click the App Info tool.

1. Configure the settings as required.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Desktop Shortcut tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to control whether a desktop shortcut of the app being deployed is created.

Remove Desktop Shortcut

If checked, will remove the desktop shortcut created as part of the app installation.

To configure this setting:

1. Click the Desktop Shortcut tool.

1. Configure the settings as required.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

If an app supports built-in auto-updates, the Built-in Auto Updates tool will be available in the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard, but the Disable Self-Update checkbox will be selected by default, disabling any auto-updates.

To manage the settings for the Built-in Auto Updates tool:

1. Click the Built-in Auto Updates tool.

1. Configure the required settings.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Available Uninstall tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to control whether Intune Apps can uninstall the app if the Company Portal installed it.

If checked, allows Intune Apps to uninstall the app if the Company Portal installed it.

To configure this setting:

1. Click the Available Uninstall tool.

1. Configure the settings as required.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployments include standard default settings. However, you can also add additional settings.

These optional settings are grouped into a series of related Additional Tools, which can be added (and, if needed, removed) to a deployment.

To add one or more optional Additional Tools to a deployment, click Add in the Additional Tools section, then select the relevant tool from the pop-up to add it to the list of Additional Tools.

Any settings you configure for a deployment will be used for the current deployment and automatically applied to any new versions of the deployment as it's updated.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Role Scope Tags tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to leverage Intune Role Scope Tags (Scope Tags) in your deployments to help control which Intune admins can manage a specific deployment.

To add Role Scope tags:

1. Add the .

2. Click the Role Scope Tags tool.

1. In the Profile Name field, either:

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

   2. Click the dropdown to see a list of existing Scope Tags and click the relevant checkbox(es) to select it.

The number of profiles selected is shown beside the Role Scope Tags tool.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Summary tab of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard provides a summary of the deployment so you can confirm that it is configured correctly before you create it.

Review the summary of the deployment shown on the Summary page. If you are happy click Deploy. If you need to change something, click < Prev to backtrack through the Deployment Wizard to the relevant setting. Make the change, then step back through the wizard to this page. If everything is now correct, click Deploy.

The App Catalog is redisplayed along with the Success - Created <deployment_name> notification.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Once the Deployment Templates (Templates) feature of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud has been enabled for your PMPC Cloud company and you have created at least one template, you can start using templates for your new deployments.

To configure a new deployment to use a template:

1. Follow the relevant deployment scenario.

2. Once the Deployment Wizard has started, click Apply Template

1. On the Apply Template screen, select the radio button beside the template you want to apply, then click Apply.

The Deployment Wizard is redisplayed along with the Success - Template ‘<template_name>’ applied notification.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Update Rings feature of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud allows you to deploy apps and updates in a phased manner across your Intune estate.

For example, you may want to deploy software to a pilot group of users/devices to ensure it functions as expected. Then, after a set period of time, you want to deploy the update to a wider group of users/devices and pause a set amount of time to check for issues. Then finally, if there are no issues, deploy the update to the remaining users/devices in scope for the deployment.

Although this approach increases the amount of time it takes to deploy software, it can reduce the impact of deploying software with unforeseen issues that impacts your business in undesirable ways.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

If your Patch My PC (PMPC) Update Rings are configured with longer delays, a new version of a product may be released while an older version is still moving through the rings.

This is not a problem, as when a newer version becomes available, PMPC Cloud does not restart or override the Update Ring process already in progress.

Each version of the software must complete the full Update Ring lifecycle independently. In other words, version n will finish all rings exactly as configured, and version n+1 will follow the same path when its turn begins.

The diagram below illustrates how each version progresses through the rings independently.

Update Rings forecast

To help you predict how your Update Rings will progress, we provide a that generates an HTML report. This report gives you a clear visual overview of your current Update Rings configuration and how each ring is expected to advance.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To view the Update Rings configured for a Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment:

1. Follow the Edit a Deployment process to open the properties of the relevant deployment whose Update Rings you want to view.

2. Click More Info.

   Any configured Update Rings are shown as tabs, which you can switch between to review your settings.

1. Click the red X in the top right-hand corner to close the More Info page and return to the Deployments node.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

In Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, the Delayed option for Update Rings doesn’t create an Update Ring until any configured delay has passed.

As a result, you cannot edit a deployment that uses Delayed Update Rings until all rings have been created.

To determine if a specific Update Ring has been created:

1. Use the process to navigate to the properties page of the deployment.

2. Each Update Ring is represented by a separate tab and the status of the ring shows you whether it has been created or not: • Success – The ring has been created. • Scheduled – The ring has not been created. In the following example, Ring 1 has been created as it has a status of Success.

   However, as Ring 2 has a status of Scheduled, it has yet to be created as the configured delay has not passed.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

If you are using the Update Rings feature of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, you may find that a version of an app deployed to a ring works fine and you now want to deploy this version to the next update ring without waiting for either the configured delay to be reached for that ring or the Sync Schedule to be run.

To update an individual Update Ring to a later version:

1. Navigate to the Deployments node.

2. Click the relevant deployment to open its properties then click More Info.

3. If you can update a ring to a newer version the Update Now button is available.

1. Click Update Now and select the relevant version you want to upgrade this ring to.

2. On the Update “<deployment_name>” ring to version <version_number> dialog box, click Confirm.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

If you have already successfully deployed an app using Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, you can convert that deployment to use Update Rings.

To convert an existing deployment to use Update Rings:

1. Edit the deployment and navigate to the Assignments tab.

Any existing assignments for the deployment are shown.

1. Click Enable Update Rings.

1. On the Move Assignments or Delete dialog box, click Move to create the Update Rings and move any existing assignments to the first Update Ring.

Any existing assignments are moved into the first Update Ring.

1. Continue from Step 3 of the process to configure your Update Rings. For example, adding additional assignments, moving assignments between rings, etc.

2. Once you have completed reconfiguring the deployment, click Save.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

All Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployments include a status.

To see the status of a deployment:

1. Sign in to the portal at .

2. Navigate to the Deployments node.

   The Deployments page loads, showing all current deployments. The Status column shows the current status of each deployment, which will be one of the following:

• Success – The application was successfully created in Intune.

• In Progress – The application is being created in Intune.

• Failed – The application failed to be created in Intune.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

All deployment-related tasks for Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud are performed from the Deployments node of the portal.

To manage deployments:

1. Sign in to the Portal at https://portal.patchmypc.com/.

2. Navigate to the Deployments node.

   The Deployments page is displayed.

Clicking the ellipsis (⋮) beside a deployment opens the management menu, allowing you to:

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To view the properties of a Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment:

1. On the Deployments page, click the relevant deployment to open its properties screen.
2. To find out more details, click More Info to open the more info page.

   More information about the deployment is shown.

1. Click X in the top-right corner to return to the Deployments page, or click Less Info to return to the deployment’s property page.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Using Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, you can delete software from Intune and recreate it to retrigger the deployment on the targeted resources.

To recreate a deployment:

1. From the Deployments page, click the ellipsis (⋮) beside the relevant deployment you want to recreate and click Recreate.
2. On the Are you sure you want to recreate <deployment_name> dialog box, click Yes.

   The Status of the deployment changes to In Progress and the Recreating the deployment <deployment_name> has started message is displayed.

   Once the deployment has been recreated, the portal auto-refreshes and the Status changes to Success.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Once Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud has successfully deployed an app, you need to decide how to manage any updates to that app.

All update-related tasks for an app are performed at the deployment level from the Deployments node of the PMPC portal by:

Navigating to the Deployments node.

The Deployments page is then displayed, showing any existing deployments and allowing you to:

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

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

To Pause Updates for an app:

1. Click on the relevant successful deployment you want to pause for updates.

1. Click the Pause Updates slider to enable it.

2. Click the X to close the deployment properties page.

   The list of deployments is displayed and UPDATES PAUSED shows under the deployment name so you updates are paused for this specific deployment.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To delete a deployment in Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud:

1. From the Deployments page, click the ellipsis (⋮) beside the relevant deployment you want to delete and click Delete.

2. On the Are you sure you want to delete <deployment_name> dialog box, click Yes.

The deployment is deleted and the Success - Deployment <deployment_name> deleted notification is displayed.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To navigate between pages of Events in Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, in the Events page footer, click the relevant control to go to the first page, previous page, next page, or last page.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To search for an Event in Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, type what you are looking for in the Search box on the Events page.

The search results of the matching entries is displayed.

To clear the search, either click the red X or manually clear the Search box.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

You can display more information about a Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud Event by clicking it.

The details page is displayed for the Event.

Either click the X or click outside of the details page to close it.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To configure the number of events shown per page in Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud:

Click the down arrow next to Items per page in the Events page footer and choose the required number.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To sort Events in Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud:

On the Events page, click the relevant column heading to sort the entries by this column.

The column heading will be highlighted and an arrow will show you whether the results are displayed in ascending or descending order.

To sort by a different column, just click the column name.

Applies to: Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud

There are times when we need to remove a product from the Patch My PC (PMPC) App Catalog, primarily because the product either:

• Goes End-Of-Life (EOL) and is no longer supported or maintained by the vendor.

• Other compatibility issues related to silent install or versioning.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Welcome to the Deployment section for Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud can be used to deploy apps using Microsoft Intune.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Retention Policy tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to determine how many versions of an app (both Windows and macOS) you want to keep. If deploying a later version of an app causes issues, you can redeploy an older version.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

As the affects when your Portal checks for updates to your Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployments, how often it runs can also affect how your Update Rings behave.

For example, if you have deployed an app that updates more frequently than your configured Sync Schedule, the ring with the lowest delay (for example, Ring 1) will have the latest suitable version applied.

Depending on how often you run your Sync Schedule and the delay between your rings, the scenario could arise where we have to skip versions to keep everything configured as per your ring strategy.

If this arises, we will not deploy a version of an app to any rings that has not been deployed to at least Ring 1. This ensures we only deploy apps to later rings that have been tested on at least one ring.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Before you can perform a migration using the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud Migration feature, you need to ensure that Publisher is connected to the same PMPC Cloud Company that you plan to migrate the objects to.

You also need to ensure that the Enable Application Migration

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Migration feature of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud allows you to migrate applications from a Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) hierarchy to a PMPC Cloud company.

Rather than simply copying existing applications as-is, our migration experience is designed to support modernization by allowing you to move away from outdated, unsupported, or vulnerable applications and toward applications that are easier to manage and keep secure in a modern Microsoft Intune environment.

As part of the migration process, PMPC Cloud analyzes your existing ConfigMgr applications to help identify:

• Applications that are outdated or no longer supported

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Migration feature of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud evaluates Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) applications using an initial full scan when the environment is first connected, followed by delta scans that run every 60 minutes by default, but can also be triggered manually.

These scans detect changes to application metadata and determine whether an application can be reliably migrated as a PMPC Catalog App, a PMPC Custom App, or is unsupported for migration.

Where possible, PMPC Cloud prefers migrating applications as catalog apps, as this ensures they can be automatically kept up to date. PMPC Cloud cannot automatically update PMPC Custom Apps when a vendor releases a new version, as Custom Apps are not tracked in the catalog.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

If you upload as part of your Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud Deployment, you can reference those files in any of the in the same deployment by building a path relative to the script's current location.

This ensures your script can reliably locate the files you uploaded, whether they are in the root or a subfolder.

Below are examples for referencing a file named file_to_be_copied.txt, either from the script root or a subfolder called MyFolder.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Welcome to the Events section for Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

An event is written to the Events node whenever a user performs a task in the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud portal. Events are also created if the action a user performs triggers a component to perform an activity.

To access the Events node:

1. Using your portal account, sign in at .

2. Navigate to

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To export today's events from Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, plus the past 29 days of events, click Export in the header of the Events page.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

You can use a Filter in Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud to help you find only the relevant Events you require.

To filter Events:

1. Click the funnel button in the header of the Events page.

   The filter sidebar opens.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

If you have for an app in Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud and want to update it as soon as possible rather than waiting for the nightly sync job to run:

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

An event is written to the Events node whenever a user performs a task in the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud portal. Events are also created if the user's action triggers a component that performs an activity.

Events are created with one of the following severity levels:

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Return Codes tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to configure Return Codes for a deployment (a Return Code is a numerical code an app typically logs and reports once it has completed running its installer).

You can manage Return Codes from within the properties of a:

• Deployment

• Custom App

To manage Return Codes for a Deployment:

1. Click the Return Codes tool.

The default Return Codes defined for the app are shown, plus any defined for the app if this is a Custom App.

1. If you do not want to add a new Return Code, proceed to Step 5.

2. To add a new Return Code for this deployment, enter the numerical value in the Return Code field, select its meaning from the Code type dropdown, then click Add.

The new Return Code is added to the list.

1. If you do not want to edit a Return Code, go to Step 9.

2. To edit a Return Code, click the pencil icon beside it.

1. Make any required changes.

2. Click the green tick to save your changes.

The Code type field is updated.

1. To delete a Return Code, click the red trash can beside the relevant code.

The code is deleted from the list.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Scripts tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to configure settings for install and uninstall scripts.

To add a script:

1. Add the .

2. Click the Scripts tool.

1. Click Add beside the relevant script option to add a script, then configure the required settings as per the relevant articles:

• - a script that can be run before the installer runs.

• - a script that can be run after the installer runs.

• - a script that can be run before the uninstaller runs.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

A Post-Install Script is a script that can be run after the installer runs.

To add a Post-Install script:

1. Click Add beside the Post-Install option.

The Add Pre-Install Script page is shown, highlighting that the default Script Format is .ps1, with built-in support for PSADT functions.

1. To import an existing script, click Import, browse to the location containing the script, and select it.

The Script Name field is populated with the filename of the script selected, and the Add Post-Install Script page is populated with the imported script.

1. To manually add a script, enter a unique name for the script in the Script Name field.

1. Select the type of script from the Script Format dropdown.

1. In the script editor, type your script.

1. In the Arguments field, enter any arguments you want to provide to the script.

1. Click Save to save your script.

The Configurations tab is re-displayed with the name of the configured script beside it.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

A Post-Uninstall Script is a script that can be run after the uninstaller runs.

To add a Post-Uninstall script:

1. Click Add beside the Post-Uninstall option.

The Add Pre-Install Script page is shown, highlighting that the default Script Format is .ps1, with built-in support for PSADT functions.

1. To import an existing script, click Import, then browse to the location containing the script and select it.

The Script Name field is populated with the filename of the script selected, and the Add Post-Uninstall Scripts page is populated with the imported script.

1. To manually add a script, enter a unique name for the script in the Script Name field.

1. Select the type of script from the Script Format dropdown.

1. In the script editor, type your script.

1. In the Arguments field, enter any arguments you want to provide to the script.

1. Click Save to save your script.

The Configurations tab is re-displayed with the name of the configured script beside it.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Extra Files tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to upload additional configuration files for a deployment.

To add extra folders and/or files:

1. Add the .

2. Click the Extra Files tool.

1. Either:

   1. Drag and drop the relevant folders or files to the relevant area.

   2. Click the relevant button to browse to and select the relevant folders or files.

1. Click Upload when your browser prompts you to upload the content.

   The hash will be calculated for any folders/files you upload, which will appear at the bottom of the Extra Files section.

1. Repeat the above steps to add any additional folders/files as required.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Categories tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to leverage Intune App Categories (Categories) in your deployments to help users find apps in the Company Portal.

To add a Category to a deployment:

1. Add the .

2. Click the Categories tool.

1. Go to Step 6. to add a new category or in the Add Category field, either:

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

   2. Click the dropdown to see a list of existing Categories and click the relevant checkbox(es) to select it.

1. Repeat this process to add any additional categories.

2. Go to to step 8. if you do not want to add a new Category.

3. To add a new Category, type its name in the Add Category field.

1. Press ENTER and the Success – The category “<category_name>” has been created notification is shown, confirming the new category has been added to both Intune and this deployment.

The number of categories selected is shown beside the Categories tool.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The ESP Profiles tool 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.

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

1. Add the .

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

1. Click the ESP Profiles tool.

1. 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 checkboxes beside the relevant profiles to select them.

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

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

The number of ESP Profiles selected is shown beside the ESP Profiles tool.

Next Steps

If you do not want to configure any additional settings, click Next to move to the tab.

Otherwise, navigate to the relevant tool to configure the required settings, which are explained in the relevant section.

Applies to : Patch My PC Cloud

Welcome to the Update Rings section for Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud.

This section contains articles covering the various Update Ring-related tasks for PMPC Cloud.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

In Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, there are two different types of Update Rings, both of which depend on the start time of the relevant deployment and how you have your Sync Schedule configured:

• Delayed Update Rings

• Immediate Update Rings

Delayed Update Rings

The Delayed option works as follows:

1. The first Update Ring is created immediately, and the software is deployed to the assigned test users/devices (usually known as a pilot group).

2. After waiting the configured number of days from when the deployment was created (to allow testing to be performed), the next Update Ring is created, and the software is deployed to the assigned users/devices (usually a bigger group/all assigned users/devices).

3. Step 2 is repeated until all Update Rings have been created and the software has been deployed to all users/devices requiring it.

Advantages

The advantage of the delayed option is:

• As the next ring (and therefore the next set of assignments) has not been created, if the software causes an issue that is detected in the first ring, the issue cannot propagate to other rings as they haven’t been created.

• Your full Update Ring workflow is followed, starting with the current version.

• Useful when you want every version to follow the same controlled rollout.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of the delayed option are:

• The deployment will be in a scheduled state until at least one version has passed through all rings.

• Your Sync Schedule configuration can impact both when the initial rings are created and when the Sync Schedule runs, which will update your rings and their assignments, including promoting a new version to your relevant rings.

• You cannot edit a deployment that uses delayed Update Rings until all of the rings have been created. If you try, you will see the

Immediate Update Rings

The Immediate options works as follows:

1. All Update Rings are created immediately with their relevant delays and assignments.

2. Assignments from all of the Update Rings will be applied to the version of the app you created the deployment with.

3. Update Rings will not begin to work until the next version (current plus one or n+1) of the software is released. At this point, the assignments from the previous version are moved to the latest version and Update Rings start to function as configured.

Advantages

The advantages of the immediate option are:

• All rings are created and configured once.

• The deployment can be edited and adjusted as required.

• You can make configuration changes at any time.

• Helpful for first-time deployments where version

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of the immediate option are:

• If the software in one ring causes an issue, if the admin forgets to pause the deployment or remove any additional rings, the issue could be spread to the next ring, even if a delay between rings is configured.

• All assignments from all Update Rings are applied to the same version of the application that the deployment was created with. However, this is only true for the initial creation of the Update Rings. All other functionality of Update Rings will continue to work as normal in any new app versions.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

As detailed in "Assignments" tab of a Patch My PC Cloud Deployment and Create a Deployment without Assignments in Patch My PC Cloud, there are several different types of assignments you can configure for a Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment.

This article focuses on some caveats and considerations specific to configuring assignments, which, if overlooked, can sometimes lead to errors.

Assignments types

To quickly recap from the public documentation, there are two ways to deploy applications:

Apps with Assignments Configured in the Cloud Portal

These deployments can use four assignment types:

• Required - The software installation is enforced on targeted devices.

• Available - The software appears in the Company Portal for users to install.

• Uninstall - The software is removed from targeted devices.

Key Point

The Cloud Portal is the source of truth for these deployments. All edits should be made in the Portal, not manually in Intune.

• By default, the Cloud Portal checks daily for new software versions.

• If you make manual changes in Intune, packaging a new version from the Portal can fail.

• Following the Portal as the source of truth ensures your assignments are applied correctly and avoids deployment errors.

Apps without Assignments

These apps allow manual control in Intune and come in two types:

• Install App – A base installation. You can assign it in Intune as Required, Available, or Uninstall.

• UpdateOnly App – A conditional Win32 update. Intune evaluates whether a device has an older version installed before applying the update.

Key Point

For these apps, Intune is the source of truth. You manage assignments manually in Intune, and the Portal does not enforce them.

• If the Copy-Forward option is enabled, the Portal will copy these manual assignments to new versions automatically.

• If Copy-Forward is not enabled, assignments are not carried over, and you must manage them manually for each new version.

• Once a deployment is created without assignments in the Portal, you cannot switch it later to a deployment with pre-configured Cloud Portal assignments. You must create a new deployment if you want that functionality.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To edit the Update Rings configuration for a deployment:

1. Navigate to the Deployments node.

2. Click the relevant deployment whose Update Ring configuration you want to edit.

1. Click Edit.

2. Click the Assignments tab.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud Migration dashboard includes the following options:

• Refresh

• Full Resync

Refresh

The Refresh option is available directly from the dashboard toolbar.

Clicking Refresh triggers an immediate delta sync from Publisher to PMPC Cloud, bypassing the normal scheduled sync interval configured in Publisher (60 minutes by default). This is useful when new applications or recent changes are available in Publisher, and you want them reflected in Cloud as soon as possible.

A refresh only processes incremental changes and does not rebuild existing migration metadata.

Full Resync

The Full Resync option is accessed by clicking the ellipsis beside the Refresh option.

Clicking Full Resync clears all migration metadata in both Cloud and the Publisher, then rebuilds it from scratch using the latest migration logic in PMPC Cloud. Non-migrated applications are removed and reimported, while migrated applications remain unchanged.

This option is intended for scenarios where migration metadata is missing, incomplete, or corrupted, such as missing file access or invalid values like a file size of zero, and where the issue cannot be resolved through normal application revision updates.

Because a full resync re-evaluates all applications, the process may take some time and cannot be cancelled midway through.

Troubleshooting

If the Refresh or Full Resync options are unavailable, it means PMPC Cloud has lost connectivity to the Publisher.

To restore the connection, open the Publisher console, go to the About tab, and select Restart Service, which will re-establish communication with your PMPC Cloud company.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

When migrating a Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) application as a suggested Patch My PC (PMPC) Catalog App, the migration flow depends on how many catalog matches are found.

If multiple PMPC Catalog Apps match the ConfigMgr application, you are first presented with the Matched App step, which allows you to review the available matches and select the PMPC Catalog App to migrate to.

After you select the appropriate match, the migration continues into the deployment flow with the selected application pre-selected.

If only a single unique PMPC Catalog App match is identified, the Matched App step is skipped entirely and the migration moves straight into the deployment flow with that application automatically pre-selected.

From this point, continue following , where the remaining steps of the deployment flow are completed.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

To use the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud Migration tool, you need to have a:

• A supported version of Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr).

• Patch My PC Publisher, version 2.1.99.0 or later.

• PMPC Cloud Company:

  • To which you have an account that has been granted the Full Admin user role (either by having this account created directly in the Cloud Company or by being a member of an Entra ID Group that has been granted this role).

• A valid Enterprise Premium or Enterprise Plus license:

  • Enterprise Premium allows you to:

    • Use Publisher to retrieve a list of applications from your ConfigMgr site and send it to your PMPC Cloud Company.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) applications that can be migrated to Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud and deployed as one of our Custom Apps have a Match Type of Custom App.

Once you click Migrate to migrate a ConfigMgr application to a PMPC Custom App, the Custom Apps Deployment Wizard starts, and you can follow Create a Custom App, but please note the following:

• As a double-check, verify that the information on each tab is correct before clicking Next.

• On the General Information tab, ensure the Version and Apps & Features Name fields are completed. These are required to complete the deployment wizard and are also important if you choose to switch from custom detection rules carried over from ConfigMgr to the PMPC detection rule on the Detection Rules tab.

• On the Configurations tab, under the Install Parameters tool/section, check that the Additional Argument field is correct and includes any required additional arguments/command line options. If the application's primary installer file is a .MSI, we automatically extract it and populate the Conflicting processes field on this tab.

• On the Assignments tab, you can click ConfigMgr Assignment List to see a list of the current assignments in ConfigMgr, so you can then review this and set these up in Intune accordingly.

• On the Detection Rules tab, you can either continue with the Use Custom option, i.e. what we detected in ConfigMgr, or select the Patch My PC Default (Recommended) option instead.

When you click Migrate, the Deployment Created, Migration Pending notification is shown.

The Status field also updates to In Progress whilst the deployment is created, with any required content zipped (e.g., the primary installer file and any extra files) and sent to Azure Blob Storage.

You can also monitor the deployment progress by clicking the Deployments node and watching for the deployment status to change to Success.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

When migrating a Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) application to a Patch My PC (PMPC) Catalog App, the deployment wizard starts, and you can follow Deploying an App using Cloud, but please note the following:

• Verify that the information on each tab is correct before clicking Next.

• On the Configurations tab, under the Install Parameters tool/section, check that the Additional Argument field is correct and includes any required additional arguments/command line options.

• On the Assignments tab, you can click ConfigMgr Assignment List to see a list of the current assignments in ConfigMgr, so you can then review this and set these up in Intune accordingly.

Once you have added your assignments, click Migrate and the Deployment Created, Migration Pending notification is shown.

The Status field also updates to In Progress whilst the deployment is created, with any required content (such as extra files) being zipped and sent to Azure Blob Storage.

You can also monitor deployment progress by clicking the Deployments node and watching for the deployment Status to change to Success.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

All Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud management-related tasks are performed through the Cloud Portal, which is browser-based and is what you see when you sign in at

The Cloud Portal is split into two key areas:

1. Navigation pane - Allows you to navigate through the different nodes

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The General Information tab of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to configure various general settings (explained below) for how you want the app to be deployed.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

A Pre-Uninstall Script is a script that can be run before the uninstaller runs.

To add a Pre-Uninstall script:

1. Click Add beside the Pre-Uninstall option.

The Add Pre-Install Script page is shown, highlighting that the default Script Format is .ps1

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Dependencies tool of the Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment wizard allows you to create dependencies within a deployment, whereby the app being deployed requires one or more other apps to have already been installed on the targeted resource before it can be deployed.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

For a Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud deployment with Update Rings enabled, you can either:

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

In Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud, a successful deployment can be edited (changed) should you wish to change any of its settings (e.g., assignments, command line parameters, etc.).

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

Some large organizations want to be able to create deployments in Intune Apps for Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud without any assignments.

Then, their local IT organization adds and manages the assignments to the relevant deployments to meet their needs by using Intune admin center.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

This article lists the various that are generated with the Security severity by Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud.

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

When applications are inventoried from Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud analyzes the application metadata to determine how the application is installed and should be migrated. As part of this process, the installation command line is evaluated, and the primary installer file is identified from the application’s content source folder.