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Currently, Patch My PC Cloud does not support creating update-only assignments for macOS deployments. This limitation is understood to stem from Microsoft Intune, which does not provide the same requirement rules that Patch My PC leverages for Windows update-only packages.
Current Behavior and Challenge:
When deploying macOS applications, customers can only use the Required assignment type. This approach is suitable when all targeted devices already have the application installed. However, if not every macOS device has the software, customers must manually manage Azure AD security groups containing only users or devices with the relevant software installed.
Because Intune does not currently offer a way to automatically or dynamically maintain these groups based on app inventory, customers bear the responsibility of keeping group membership accurate. This manual process increases administrative overhead and the risk of unintentionally installing applications rather than simply updating them.
Requested Enhancement:
Provide functionality - either within Patch My PC Cloud or through integration enhancements - that enables an "update-only" deployment experience for macOS similar to what exists for Windows. This could include:
A mechanism to target updates only to devices where the application is already installed.
Options to automatically detect installed software and limit deployment scope accordingly.
Value:
This enhancement would streamline macOS update management, reduce administrative effort, and align the macOS experience with existing Windows update behaviors in Patch My PC Cloud.
Thanks for the votes. The blocker here is on the Intune side rather than Patch My PC. Intune doesn't currently expose the requirement-rule mechanism for macOS that we rely on to deliver true update-only behavior on Windows. Until Microsoft provides an equivalent capability for macOS, we can't replicate the Windows update-only experience in Cloud. We're keeping an eye on the Intune roadmap and will revisit this as soon as the platform supports it.
Hi there,
Microsoft has implemented now the option "Available macOS PKG apps update automatically when you upload a new version"
See for that https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/whats-new/.
Is that maybe helping to implement a functionaly, which comes near the Windows patching via PMPC?
Best regards
Michael
[sad] Alkema, Victor J reacted to your message:
Guess that's why it's called PmyPC and not Mac...
Hi, I see the PMP team posted an update on this, can they confirm what is the best way to try and replicate the 'update only' experience for Macs? Currently we are using a workaround with a detection script for the app which places users into a dynamic Azure user group and set the required assignment to target that group. Is there a better way of doing this?
From my understanding other vendors have this functionality. E.g. WithSecure.
+3
Any update on this feature?