This post is the continuation of “SCCM Application Creation Automation – Patch My PC Review 1.” In this post, Review #2, you are going to see more details from the SCCM side. Let’s see how Patch My PC can help with SCCM automation activities like third-party software updates and application creation.
Introduction
SCCM third-party software updates without using SCUP is an excellent feature. As I mentioned in the post here, most of the third-party applications are not providing free update catalogs for their applications.
You have seen in my previous post that Patch My PC can help SCCM admins to streamline the patching and application packaging process. Patch My PC publishing service can automatically update third-party application deployments in the SCCM environment.
Video – SCCM Automation
SCCM Automation Using Patch My PC Review #2. You will get answers to the following questions.
- How the third-party updates get synced with SCCM?
- What are the products which you need to select from SCCM?
- How the Patch My PC will automatically create the third-party software updates and third-party applications in SCCM console?
Select the Patch My PC Products
Once you click on Run Publishing Service Sync button (as I explained in the review #1), the Patch My PC publishing service will initiate a sync with WSUS/SCCM. This action will ensure that the Patch My PC products availability under Software Update Point Component Properties.
The PatchMyPC.log is your friend to trace the Patch My PC activities using the SMS Provider and WSUS. You can check PatchMyPC.log to confirm whether the sync is completed between publishing service and SCCM.
Select the following products from Software Update Point Component Properties. These products help to publish third-party software updates.
- Patch My PC
- SCUP Updates
Software Update Sync
Initiate the Software Update Sync to make all the third-party software updates into SCCM. Unlike native SCCM Third-party software update, you don’t need to Publish Third-Party Software Update Content when you use Patch My PC publishing service.
As mentioned above, Mozilla Firefox 68.0.1 (x64)update is available in the SCCM console after the sync. Moreover, the update is ready to deploy with the Green color icon.
SCCM Automation – Application Creation
Patch My PC publishing service created an SCCM application called Mozilla Firefox 68.0.1 (x64). The automatic creation of the new version of the application is useful in real-world scenarios.
In many organizations, the packaging team is there to create the application packages whenever a vendor releases a new update. And they also follow a specific process to create an application model for each vendor app in SCCM. All the package customization actioned can be embedded in the application package.
More details about the customization actions which you can pefrom as part of Software update is explained in the Review post #1.
Resources
- https://www.anoopcnair.com/sccm-application-creation-patch-my-pc-review-1/
- SCCM Third-Party Software Updates Setup Step by Step Guide Post 1
- List of Free SCCM Catalogs for Third-Party Software Updates
- SCCM Third-Party Updates Step by Step Troubleshooting Process Guide
- Download the Patch My PC for Free