Updating 3rd party app in Intune

[ranj]

Hi Folks

 

Just wanted to get a consensus on what others do and would recommend in my scenario around updating Win32/MSI 3rd party apps in Intune.

 

I am working with a customer who hasn't got the investment to make in a 3rd party patching solution such as patchmypc so I am working with the customer to look at the feasibility of updating apps manually using Intune which they already use. It's a standalone Intune without SCCM. The customer has a handful of apps which need updating and a lot of the apps are Line of business and a few from the major vendors such as Adobe, VLC, 7-zip etc.

 

If the customer is already deploying the apps using MSI and wants to perform an update of an existing MSI already deployed, can the original MSI be updated just by going into the client app, and update the file from 'select file to update' and push the update out to clients. Would this process work? Would this conflict with the older app already installed? I guess its dependent on how the App is packaged and how the internal mechanism for updating works?

 

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

R

[ranj]

To an Admin,

 

Sorry I think have put this in the wrong forum, probably best if it can go under cloud services... Can this be done or do I need to repost and delete from here?

 

Thanks