Intune Patch My PC – Full Guide – Part 3

This article will describe how to setup Intune Patch My PC. This will be a full guide! Because it was such a long blog post, I divided it in parts. Every part will be released day after day. Situation:

• Azure AD Joined Intune managed devices

Target:

• Implementing Patch My PC for 3rd party applications and 3rd party applications update management

Patch my PC’s mission is to simplify how enterprises create, manage, update, and deploy third-party applications within System Center Configuration Manager. Our solution is used by over 1,600 enterprises worldwide, helping to maintain applications on over 5 million devices. They also have a public preview running for integration with Intune. In my blog post we will go over this and set it up. You can find more info about Patch my PC on their website. Requirements for running Patch My PC Publishing service:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
• Supported Operating Systems
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows 10 (x64) – Microsoft Intune only

Prerequisites for running Patch My PC Publishing service:

• When using Windows Server operating systems, WSUS should be installed and configured.
• If using Windows 10 client for Microsoft Intune only
  • Optional feature RSAT: Windows Server Updates Services Tools should be pre-installed

1. Configure the Patch My PC publishing Service

• So, in our previous post (Intune Patch My PC – Full Guide – Part 2) we stopped at the moment where we completed our app registration in Azure AD. So let’s pick up here.
• We copied our Application ID and Secret Password somewhere safe, we will need this in the following steps.
• Go back to the Patch My PC Publishing Service and click on the ‘Intune Apps’ tab. Click the checkbox Automatically create Win32 application in Microsoft Intune.
• Next, click the ‘Options’ button.

• Copy your Tenant name (if you don’t know where to find it, go to endpoint.microsoft.com, click on ‘Tenant administration’, and you’ll find it under the ‘Tenant status’ blade.

• Now we have all we need (Tenant name, Application ID & Application Secret Key). Paste them correctly in the Patch My PC Publishing Service. click ‘Test’ to validate we can successfully connect to your Intune tenant.
• If all went well you’ll get the message that you’re ‘Succesfully connected to Intune’.

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