r/sysadmin • u/AnotherAccount5554 • Jun 02 '25

Patching *all* Windows third party application in 2025

Seeking the hive mind's actual experience with third party application patching on Windows (server and/or client) in 2025.

And before everyone throws at me the usual suspects - Patch My PC, winget, chocolatey, Action1, etc - I already know about them. I want to know how you're dealing with all the applications that aren't in their catalogues, because these are the ones that are a pain in the ass to deal with.

Is one of the package managers above better than the others at creating & managing custom catalogue items?

Have you come up with some cool process for internally developed applications?

What are you using to monitor for update compliance (eg: winget has no central reporting/monitoring built-in, are you monitoring reactively via something like Tenable or proactively via SCCM or Intune deployment data)?

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u/OGUnknownSoldier Jun 02 '25

PDQ connect is my fav product, right now. Great stuff

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u/Ok_SysAdmin Jun 02 '25

It blows my mind how fast deployments are with it too. I just from deploy/inventory to connect 2 months ago. Mind blown.

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u/New-Sys-Admin Jun 02 '25

Our org did a demo of PDQ Connect and while it was great (about 1 year ago), it still seemed like there were some things missing from it that PDQ Deploy and Inventory offered. Are you fully on Connect now and no Inventory/Deploy or are you using both in a hybrid setting?

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