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I am pleased to share our positive experience with PatchMyPC. Initially, I harbored reservations regarding its capabilities. However, following a comprehensive demo session, I quickly grasped the full extent of its benefits. PatchMyPC has proven to be an indispensable tool in streamlining the management of our school's extensive application suite, comprising over 100 programs. The solution's seamless integration with Intune has further enhanced our overall experience.

Notwithstanding our enthusiasm for PatchMyPC, budgetary constraints necessitated a delayed implementation. In this regard, Justin from PatchMyPC demonstrated exemplary understanding and accommodation, providing our institution with a complimentary trial period spanning several months. We greatly appreciate this gesture of goodwill. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are still lack of Arm64 Support. I hope it will include arm64 architecture soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are already using the Patch-My-PC software for a while. I think about 4 ½ years. We are using the product in combination with our SCCM infrastructure.

In the first month we only use this for easy updates e.g. updating non-Microsoft web browsers. But during the years we find out that the product has a lot to offer.

As proof of this some examples of how we apply this:

• Patch-My-PC creates applications in SCCM for us. No search for silent installation switches or packaging needed, this will be done for you by the product.

Even if you want to handle all those thing yourselves, you can find the installation switches in the product. You do not have to search for them.

If you use PSAppdeployment Toolkit it is also nice to know that Patch-My-PC support will also help you with this in case you have an issue. We also could confirm that the support of Patch-My-PC is super-fast and to the point. Being a system and 3th line support engineer a really appreciate this kind of support!

• Patch-My-PC create automatically new versions of applications and updates. There is a scheduling service available which will download the latest versions of the product. This can be setup e.g. every week or every patching Tuesday. We use this on weekly basis especially to gather recent vulnerability updates. This runs fully automated in combination with an ADR rule in SCCM and provides all our devices with a weekly update of several products. You will receive a report from what has been updated and what has failed so you could take the propre actions if needed.

• Patch-My-PC can create an in-place upgrade. We use this also to update default applications used in our task sequences. By using Patch-My-PC our task sequences contains automatically the latest version of certain applications and newly staged devices do not need to update first to the latest version.

• We have some special setup of certain application:

When there is a new version of Google Chrome, we need to have also the latest Chromedriver for our developers. We succeeded to automate this with Patch-My-PC in combination with a scheduled download script. So when a new update of Google Chrome is downloaded, Patch-my-PC add the Chromedriver (from our fileshare) to this update. This update is distributed like any other Windows update but will also install the Chromedriver to corporate devices.

We recently added the Git application in Patch-my-PC. We use the standard installation and added a PSAppdeployment Toolkit script which will configure user based settings in Git.

So, when the SCCM install or uninstall is triggered on a device, Patch-My-PC will also execute a extra PSAppdeployment script after install and uninstall. This makes it possible for us to configure the software automatically nevertheless we are using the standard package delivered by Patch-My-PC.

• When a certain CVE is required and the software in not yet distributed via Patch-My-PC. We can quickly provide this update via Patch-My-PC (if available and supported), SCCM and the Windows Update mechanism. In the ideal scenario, testing could start in about 30 minutes.

Nice to know:

• We are using SCCM but almost all feature could be used for Intune too. We have no experience with this, but if we should think about applying applications via Intune we certainly would evaluate Patch-My-PC for this.

• You need to explorer the different settings in the product regularly because new features are frequently added. The Patch-My-PC software is automatically updated over the Internet.

A welcome new feature for us was e.g. the possibility to update one application via the Publishing service instead of all configured applications.

• There are some short webinars about new feature or best practices. It is nice to know that you can always watch these at any time. Of course if you have some questions it is better to follow them at the webinar time.

As a conclusion we can say that we are very satisfied with the Patch-My-PC software.

It gives added value and helps us to provide applications and patches to our approximately 1800 devices in an easy, efficient and quick way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not have really annoying issues with Patch-My-PC.

Maybe the interface is some kind of old, simple looking. but it does what it needs to do.

Of course there could be made improvements by adding some nice-to-have features:

• Integration of PSAppdeployment framework. Write and edit the PowerShell code in the Patch-My-PC interface.

• There can only be one publishing schedule setup for all the applications. Maybe a selective schedule for some applications could be nice. E.g. web browsers updates weekly other updates on patching Tuesday.

• Add the posibillity to add custom requirements e.g. we use on every application that the user must be primary user. This cannot be done from within the Patch-My-PC interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The deployment experience has been great, and the fact that you can force updates on machines just if an app is installed, without even having to push it out or make it available is super useful. Support has also been very responsive; usually within an hour in my experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since we are using the SaaS offering and it is very new there are a few things that are missing, mostly update rings. But that is already something they have in private preview, so once that goes live we'll be even more pleased. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The onboarding of Patch My PC was very good indeed. They held our hand during the installation and implementation and helped us make sure it was set up correctly. Further calls were arranged as and when needed. We signed up to the subscription which included the reporting dashboard which has been very helpful to us in giving us visibility about our PC and server estates. Patch My PC has become a tool which our infrastructure team now use on a weekly if not daily basis. It also does a very good job of keeping our 3rd party apps up-to-date of course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think Patch My PC is an excellent product, and very cost effective for what it does. So far I have not found anything significiant which contradicts that view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patch My PC works awesome! great for Third Party updates. The sql query feature is really nice for adding updates to deploy. Setup was really easy. Customer support helped with the initial setup and questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing, works great. We haven't had any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clean interface

customizability- I can rename the package individually, i can remove the shortcuts just for one app, etc

Fast startup

Menus and options are easy to understand

Packages are created automatically in Intune in a relatively short time (about 5 minutes) - I do not need to create the package manually and do the detection method Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

for some reason, the scan intune for supported products just keeps running even after a few hours Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that I take back the time it takes me to package an application, create the install and uninstall cmds, find the best detection method, etc. This allows me to spend more time on testing and making sure that my users are taken care of. Plus all of the people I have spoken to are super helpful and very knowledgable about their product. They love learning about what might be needed and how to make the product easier to use. It was so easy to integrate it into my process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not a dislike so much, but I will have to get used to the autoupdate deployments and how best to manage it for my users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are a smaller sized business with a small tech team. Patch my PC allows us to focus on larger projects for the business and less time patching software. Patch my PC has every app we could need and their SaaS offering is clean and simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wouldn't say I dislike anything about the product. Some things that are missing from the SaaS offering are in the pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PatchMyPC is easy to integration in Intune and has a huge catalog of software. When a software is not available we can request for it to be added or we can use a custom package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

support for macOS and ARM is not available at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PatchMyPC was a very easy product to set up at our institution.

The interface is easy to understand, and there are plenty of tutorials and explanations on the company's website to help you get everything up and running smoothly. The teams are also available if you need them.

This is a huge time-saver, given the numerous updates that sometimes come out several times a week for some software, so you don't have to update packages by hand all the time.

Thanks to PatchMyPC's automation, you don't have to worry about updates or searching constantly for them.

An automated system like PatchMyPC also lets you quickly patch a large number of software packages, without having to worry about follow-up.

This keeps your installed fleet as clean as possible, and eliminates a large number of security vulnerabilities!

The software allows you to either update existing software (via wsus), create deployment packages, or do both, which is ideal as some users may be local administrators of their machines and therefore install software not deployed by the organization, so it's possible to only deploy updates via wsus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I have no regrets, I've encountered no problems with use or operation, this software does the job perfectly and is constantly improving and expanding its catalog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.