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Quote from: MassDeployment on January 28, 2026, 09:47:56 PMI am experiencing this issue now. I pre-provision my devices and I only have 8 apps required in there. The pre-provisioning is fine, computer Reseals then I give it to the user. The problem is that when the user logs in and it does the ESP Device setup section, the Apps (Identifying) takes like 10 minutes, then it says (None Applicable) or something like that.

I checked the AppWorkLoad.log and I can see that's evaluating all my "Update for <app>" packages because they are marked as Required to All Devices.

Lets say I have the VLC Media Player package created, I mark it as Available for All Devices that way people can download from Company Portal. I also create the Update for VLC Media Player package and mark it as Required for All Devices, assuming that that way when an update gets released those who installed the software will get the update.

My AppWorkLoad.log is processing around 45 packages.

What can I do so I can make this better?

Same recommendation was given above I would suggest.
Remove the UPDATES from ESP entirely. It's not necessary to have them there.

They will still evaluate separately based on the Standard InTune evaluation cycles after ESP completes and the device is online.

Keep the ESP list restrained to only the most critical core requires apps. Everything else shouldnt be in ESP.

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Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Manual edits of Package.xml po...

Last post by steadybird - February 05, 2026, 05:59:05 PM

Hi Team,

I am looking to grab copies of our PMPC deployed items and throw them at some servers with custom login scripts. Unfortunately the CIO veto'd my idea to implement WSUS and we don't have the budget for SCCM... So I am having to perform alternatives.

I wanted to make some customisations to the deployment and thought I could do so via amendments to the Package.xml. Reviewing the file it seems straight forward enough but I am wondering around the "ÿ" I see at the end of each argument.

This looks to be something that doesn't render natively in utf-8 so I worry if I make edits to the file will the PMPC scriptrunner still understand Package.xml.

What happens if I remove the "ÿ"?
What happens if in an existing Package.xml that does not include a specific argument, I manually insert a copy sourced from another file and abide by the syntax?

#55

Home Updater: Report Detection Issues or Installation Issues / Re: Installations of ExifTool ...

Last post by Omar (Patch My PC) - February 04, 2026, 10:36:44 AM

Updated to v13.49
We will look into the problem of some updates getting stuck at some situations, thank you!

#56

Home Updater: Report Detection Issues or Installation Issues / Installations of ExifTool Port...

Last post by dking02 - February 04, 2026, 02:40:12 AM

Installations of ExifTool Portable 13.48 get stuck indefinitely with a status of "Calculating" because the download file cannot be found on the target server and Home Updater as currently implemented is apparently unable to detect this type of problem. The attempted update must be manually cancelled.

Log file excerpt:
[2026-02-04 00:34:07] DEBUG [Exiftool (x64) Portable]: Started downloading portable app: 'https://exiftool.org/exiftool-13.48_64.zip'

The exiftool.org home page contains the following note:
"(To reduce load on the exiftool.org server, the download links now point to SourceForge)"

The URL should have been: https://sourceforge.net/projects/exiftool/files/exiftool-13.48_64.zip

Note that ExifTool version 13.48 (31-Jan-26) has since been superseded by version 13.49 (03-Feb-26).

Download files for both versions are available on SourceForge.

#57

Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Re: Searching "portable" in th...

Last post by adnavcn - February 04, 2026, 01:52:21 AM

Quote from: dking02 on January 30, 2026, 04:15:59 PMchange the app type filter for the search

Thank you, it solved. The reason why I didn't do that, is because with my desktop screen resolution, the Filter horizontal box of the "App Library" disappears, if "Group by category" is pinned.

So I had to UNPIN the "Group by Category" button and then I could filter by portable, also the "App Library".

#58

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Logi Options failling with...

Last post by Michiel (Patch My PC) - February 02, 2026, 09:39:16 AM

Hi @alexwtech,

Please open a support case for this by filling out the form here: https://patchmypc.com/technical-support/. One of our customer engineers will then get back to you to investigate this further. Thanks!

#59

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Notepad++ Sources During C...

Last post by Michiel (Patch My PC) - February 02, 2026, 09:36:48 AM

Hi @Jared,

Notepad++ confirmed that its update infrastructure was compromised in a targeted supply‑chain attack between June 2025 and December 2025. Investigators, including external security experts and the former hosting provider, determined that the breach occurred at the hosting provider level, not through any vulnerability in Notepad++ itself. Attackers were able to intercept and redirect update traffic intended for notepad-plus-plus.org.

Only certain targeted users were affected. Their update requests were silently redirected to attacker‑controlled servers serving malicious update manifests, meaning users could have unknowingly installed tampered binaries if they updated Notepad++ during the affected period.
Timeline highlights:

June 2025 – Attack began with infrastructure‑level compromise.
Nov 10, 2025 – Security experts believe the attack activity ceased.
Dec 2, 2025 – Hosting provider confirms attacker access ended after credential rotations and hardening.

Users who updated Notepad++ between June and December 2025 are advised to ensure they are now running version 8.8.9 or later, which includes improved integrity checks to prevent similar attacks.

To summarize: it was the update servers that were compromised, and the attack is no longer active. Compromised versions were only ever delivered via the application's auto-updater to certain targeted users, and not via Patch My PC. The latest version has been hardened to prevent it reoccurring.

For more information about this, please visit:

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

#60

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: "Show in WSUS" doesn't wor...

Last post by Michiel (Patch My PC) - February 02, 2026, 09:33:16 AM

@niclas2874 In most cases, we'd recommend publishing updates to WSUS with Full Content. For more information, please visit:

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