When looking at the available updates in my environment, I see something like the program "Beyond Compare" and PmPC has 2 items listed:
- Beyond Compare 4 (EXE-x64)
- Beyond Compare 4 (MSI-x64)
Both have the same number of installations and the list of devices is the same for both.
Should I pick one (and which one) or both? What is the best practice here?
ConfigMgr only collects the information of the application based on the name and it doesn't have enough information for us to be able to tell which installer type was originally used.
A couple things you can do is just deploy both products, this might be preferred if you don't know what version was used to do the installs. This will also ensure you can update both types in your environment.
Our Applicability rules for WSUS will ensure that only the corresponding update will install on the machine based on the installer type.