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Categories Patch My PC Publisher
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 29, 2019

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Add Process Check in Upgrade Rules to Notify Users

Process check was added in Application Rules and it would be huge to have this feature within Update Rules. This would prevent needing to use a custom script to prompt the user to close the app that's running so that it can update properly.

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    Justin Chalfant
    Aug 29, 2019

    Hi,

    Are you asking for the ability to notify the user interactively to close the process via software updates? We actually added this feature to application because it's unlikely we can support this via software updates due to SYSTEM level complexity with the Windows Update Agent.

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Show message before update is installed

We have huge issues with the update of the Citrix Receiver/Workspace application on computers. When the update starts, the Citrix session is disconnected (native installer behavior or by autokill feature) The problem is that users directly tries t...
Pepijn Vermeersch over 5 years ago in Patch My PC Publisher 4 SHIPPED