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3 VOTE

Full path to conflicting process

Sometimes different applications can share the same executable name. PMPC doesn't care where the process originates from when "name.exe" is specified in "Manage conflicting processes", it just wants to shutdown whatever application is running that...
Mikael Zewgren 4 days ago in Patch My PC Publisher 0 NOTED
1,374 VOTE

Automatically uninstall other editions of the same product

Uninstall other editions detected on the device that isn't the deployed application. For example: if the customer deploys 7-Zip 64bit MSI application as required to a device, and the device has 7-Zip 32bit EXE or any other flavour of 7-Zip install...
Adam Cook almost 4 years ago in Patch My PC Cloud / Patch My PC Publisher 27 UNDER CONSIDERATION
49 VOTE

Improve detection processing with Automatic Group Assignments

This is somewhat related to PATCHMYPC-I-7090 & PATCHMYPC-I-7121 , but my goal is specifically to address client-side performance impacts in large environments using Patch My PC. In our environment, the deployed PMPC catalog is very large. As a...
Joshua D about 2 months ago in Patch My PC Cloud / Patch My PC Publisher 2 NOTED
4 VOTE

Ability to edit the "Update in progress…" message or an enhancement.

Currently, user's only see that "An update is currently being installed on your computer. Please, do not try to start <process.name>." It would be good if we could edit this message, or alternatively, if you could add a statement asking them...
Manuel Cuellar 7 days ago in Patch My PC Publisher 1 NOTED
173 VOTE

PatchMyPC Update Information change to PSADT Design

The Update Windows of PatchMyPC for the Users are not informative enough with the dropdown of to close applications before the update begins. As we also use PSADT we saw how closing of applications for installations is handled there and asked us w...
Manuel Weißböck about 1 year ago in Patch My PC Publisher 1 NOTED
484 VOTE

Notification after success installation.

As part of the Manage Conflicting Processes\Notification Policies for updates, add an option to show a notification pop-up after the installation of the update has completed. Users don't know how long an update installation will take after allowin...
Guest about 3 years ago in Patch My PC Cloud / Patch My PC Publisher 25 IN DEVELOPMENT
17 VOTE

Modern PSADT-branding for PmPC publisher

PatchmyPC support told me that the modern PSADT-like branding is currently supported by PatchmyPC cloud only. Publisher only supports the legacy branding. It would be great if the modern branding could also be used with PmPC publisher onprem.
Guest about 2 months ago in Patch My PC Publisher / PSAppDeployToolkit (PSADT) 0 NOTED
5 VOTE

Add Update Estimates for conflicting processes

In the pop-up messages for Conflicting Processes there should also be an estimate for the user so they know how long it'll take for each update to run.
Zak Goldin 18 days ago in Patch My PC Publisher 0 NOTED
662 VOTE

Allow multiple copies of app for different configurations

Allow creating multiple copies of an application so that you can have different configurations of the application. For example, if an application is licensed with a post-script, but different departments have a separate license for the app, it w...
Guest over 6 years ago in Patch My PC Publisher 38 IN DEVELOPMENT
494 VOTE

Add detection capability for file info

Detection methods supported in the generic detection script (PowerShell) - only work for MSI or Registry. One application, Adobe Digital Editions, currently can only be properly detected by looking at an info attribute of the installed exe file, s...
Apackager Aga about 5 years ago in Patch My PC Publisher 33 NOTED