Software Updates

Easily install and update apps on your home PC with Patch My PC Home Updater

My colleagues and I oversee numerous applications across our 6,000 managed workstations. Keeping these applications up-to-date is critical, as 70% of successful malware attacks target outdated vulnerabilities. Security updates occur monthly, sometimes even more frequently. Repackaging applications for managed devices is time-consuming, so we adopted Patch My PC years ago.
Patch My Pc enables us to save countless hours by automating the patching process for many applications installed on our workstations managed by Configuration manager or Intune. But what about your personal owned Windows devices?

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Uninstall Adobe Flash with KB4577586

Microsoft has released a Windows update (KB4577568) that removes Adobe’s Flash Player before it reaches end of support on December 31, 2020. However, it isn’t rolling out via Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) yet, and the update needs to be downloaded and installed from the Microsoft Update Catalog. It will become available to WSUS in early 2021. In this post I will show how you can Import this update in WSUS and deploy it with MECM (Software Update Point).

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Microsoft 365 Apps update channels

A few months ago Microsoft changed the names of the Microsoft 365 Apps update channels (May 2020) and the titles of the Microsoft 365 Apps update channels monthly feature/security updates (July 2020). In this post I will show you what impact this could have on your active Office 365 environment in MECM (SCCM).

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