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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1
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      I prefer to use Chocolatey.

      Salt and Ansible are good options as well, as @DustinB3403 already mentioned.

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      • gjacobseG
        gjacobse
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        I’d go choco. Ninite requires rebuilding the installer (last time I used it) ever time you add/update/remove an application .

        Choco is much easier, @JaredBusch uses it if I recall.

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        • travisdh1T
          travisdh1 @gjacobse
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          @gjacobse said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

          I’d go choco. Ninite requires rebuilding the installer (last time I used it) ever time you add/update/remove an application .

          Choco is much easier, @JaredBusch uses it if I recall.

          It's included in our RMM now (Atera). Really nice when you have someone calling asking for software and can say, "It's now installed, look at your start menu" without missing a beat on the phone.

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          • black3dynamiteB
            black3dynamite @travisdh1
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            @travisdh1 said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

            I prefer to use Chocolatey.

            Salt and Ansible are good options as well, as @DustinB3403 already mentioned.

            You can actually use use salt and ansible to manage chocolatey, which is cool.

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              flaxking
              last edited by flaxking

              You can add third party updates with WSUS, but it's more of a manual process to add them than using chocolatey

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              • pmonchoP
                pmoncho @registry2021
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                @registry2021 said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                @gjacobse said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                @registry2021
                You can via GPO.

                I read pushing software via gpo is a pain. is there another way?

                Definitely look into Chocolatey as others have suggested and only use GPO's with MSI if required. I recently moved over to Chocolatey (based on suggestions here) and am very happy I did.

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                • jclambertJ
                  jclambert
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                  Chocolately and PDQ are both very easy to utilize.

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                    registry2021 @jclambert
                    last edited by

                    @jclambert said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                    Chocolately and PDQ are both very easy to utilize.

                    I'll be using this on domain environment and hoping I can update the workstations remotely. is it possible and which one suits best?

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @registry2021
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                      @registry2021 said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                      I'll be using this on domain environment and hoping I can update the workstations remotely. is it possible and which one suits best?

                      Both can be used in a domain, the question is completely dependent on what you're willing to setup.

                      PDQ Deploy is likely the easiest to "use" if you don't want to setup anything and you just want a GUI to push packages from a Windows desktop environment.

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
                        last edited by

                        Chocolatey is very likely the most flexible solution, but would require some setup on your part to get it going throughout the domain.

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                        • DashrenderD
                          Dashrender
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                          Chocolately - I use the their package choco-upgrade-all-at-start. This will schedule choco to upgrade at every reboot.

                          There's another package choco-upgrade-all-at that defaults to 4 AM update daily.

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403 @Dashrender
                            last edited by

                            @Dashrender said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                            Chocolately - I use the their package choco-upgrade-all-at-start. This will schedule choco to upgrade at every reboot.

                            There's another package choco-upgrade-all-at that defaults to 4 AM update daily.

                            /Me screws over @Dashrender because I never reboot my computer. "What closing the lid doesn't count as rebooting?"

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                            • jclambertJ
                              jclambert
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                              Chocolatey is more flexible, but PDQ is super simple. We implement PDQ here currently, as it was an uphill battle to get anything going. Now that the benefits are seen, many roads have opened.

                              I am all for automation, and open source is a plus. Salt may be the next venture, as it looks like a fleet of Pis, and an expansion of Linux servers may be in our future.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @jclambert
                                last edited by Dashrender

                                @jclambert said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                                Chocolatey is more flexible, but PDQ is super simple. We implement PDQ here currently, as it was an uphill battle to get anything going. Now that the benefits are seen, many roads have opened.

                                I am all for automation, and open source is a plus. Salt may be the next venture, as it looks like a fleet of Pis, and an expansion of Linux servers may be in our future.

                                Yeah - I really need to look into salt myself. One frustrating thing is not knowing the status of any anything. not that salt can help with that, at least I don't think it can directly.

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                                • ObsolesceO
                                  Obsolesce
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                                  We can't use Chocolatey, at least the public NuGet repo it uses by default.

                                  But for common apps, I have it 100% automated via Azure DevOps, Intune, and the PSADT.

                                  Another option I'm still looking into for certain apps is using Azure DevOps like above, but then deploying the artifact to a NuGet repo then used by the newer WinGet tool.

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                                  • JaredBuschJ
                                    JaredBusch @Dashrender
                                    last edited by

                                    @Dashrender said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                                    Chocolately - I use the their package choco-upgrade-all-at-start. This will schedule choco to upgrade at every reboot.

                                    There's another package choco-upgrade-all-at that defaults to 4 AM update daily.

                                    You specify the time when you install it.

                                    choco install -y choco-upgrade-all-at --params "'/DAILY:yes /TIME:17:00 /ABORTTIME:20:00'"
                                    
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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                      last edited by

                                      @Dashrender said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                                      Chocolately - I use the their package choco-upgrade-all-at-start. This will schedule choco to upgrade at every reboot.

                                      There's another package choco-upgrade-all-at that defaults to 4 AM update daily.

                                      You can just make a Scheduled Task,too.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
                                        last edited by

                                        @Obsolesce said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                                        We can't use Chocolatey, at least the public NuGet repo it uses by default.

                                        Lots of people with that limitation, but just make your own. Still a great tool and, we'd assume, it means any public repo would be an issue for you so the need for your own repo would be a universal need.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @jclambert
                                          last edited by

                                          @jclambert said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                                          Chocolatey is more flexible, but PDQ is super simple. We implement PDQ here currently, as it was an uphill battle to get anything going. Now that the benefits are seen, many roads have opened.

                                          I am all for automation, and open source is a plus. Salt may be the next venture, as it looks like a fleet of Pis, and an expansion of Linux servers may be in our future.

                                          Sounds like some great ideas! 😉

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                                          • JaredBuschJ
                                            JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            @scottalanmiller said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                                            @Dashrender said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

                                            Chocolately - I use the their package choco-upgrade-all-at-start. This will schedule choco to upgrade at every reboot.

                                            There's another package choco-upgrade-all-at that defaults to 4 AM update daily.

                                            You can just make a Scheduled Task,too.

                                            This does that for you.

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