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

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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 Keeping these applications up-to-date is critical, as 70% of successful malware attacks target outdated vulnerabilities.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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Error 0X800F0954 installing Feature on demand like Basic typing, handwriting, text-to-speech, etc.

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Employees using our managed workstations have recently encountered issues installing Windows 11 language packs FOD. While the language packs install without a hitch, additional features such as Basic typing, handwriting, and text-to-speech fail to install across all attempted languages. In this post I will explain the cause of the problem and provide a solution.

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Postpone or enable MFA for cloud admin accounts to access Microsoft admin Portals

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Microsoft is set to enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on admin accounts accessing the Microsoft Entra Admin Center, Azure portal and Microsoft Intune Admin Center starting October 15, 2024.

This article will guide you through the steps to either postpone this enforcement or immediately implement MFA for your admin accounts.

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Teams Outlook add-in missing after uninstall Classic Teams

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Last week we were getting reports from employees that the Teams add-in in Outlook suddenly disappeared. After some research we discovered this happened because the Classic Teams was uninstalled automatically in the background by the Microsoft policy. These employees already were working with Teams 2.0. There are a few ways to get the Outlook add-in working again. In this post I will show how you can fix this, form a manual action to running a script.

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Great tool to change MECM content path locations

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Just a tip for a really useful tool. Our storage department was planning a storage migration so the content share used for applications, packages, etc in MECM (SCCM) changed. We already used a cname to point to the content share for a lot of objects but not for all of them. So I was looking for a tool to change content paths to the correct cname share in MECM.

This tool does the job! I can really recommend it!

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