Patch My PC Publisher

Using the published Updates Wizard is handy to decline a bad patch, sure. It would be incredibly handy if it included a column that reflected how many systems require the patch like the MECM console does. Why would a Required column be so handy? I...

We are using ADR to automate a flow from test to production. Patches/applications have to be approved before we are pushing them into production because of our complex infrastructure and a desire not to interfere with patches every day. But someti...

For End of Life products without anymore updates available… there could be a final update in the catalog that has the same applicability rule(s) detecting the EOL product being present on a system but instead of installing an update actually remov...

In our particular situation we are on a monthly patching cadence for the firm, but an ongoing (bleeding edge) for test systems. So, we run the Publishing Service Sync each morning at 1am. At 3pm on Patch Tuesday, our ADR for monthly patching fires...

For certain apps where they have the MSI installer, we'd like to be able to use those over EXE because then we could use the installation logging in case of conflicts or errors. (Firefox for example)

For ConfigMgr and Intune, we have the ability to query inventory to see which software is installed on how many devices.We can also click on the count to see which devices have the software installed and which version. Would be nice to also show a...

This would help to avoid a PMP deployment that may break functionality on a device that doesn't have the prerequisite installed.

It's maybe not always obvious to someone new to it that clicking "apply" doesn't sync your changes immediately. Thoughts on something like the above that says "you've made changes, do you want to sync now or wait to the next sync?"

It isn't necessarily obvious that clicking "OK" will apply the settings/changes that have been made within the Publisher or that it will close the Publisher. Changing "OK" to be something like "Apply and Close" would potentially make it more user ...

As it's not always needed to see all applications/updates available to be published, a filter to show only applications/packages that have been enabled or disabled might make the environment less cluttered and easier to skip to the "meat".