Infrastructure requirements before enabling third-party software updates To summarize, the new Third-party Software Updates feature allows you to subscribe to third-party catalogs, publish their software updates to your Software Update point and then deploy them to your clients. As an MVP, I get a free license for Patch My PC and I’ll be using that catalog to show the functionality in this blog post, however this should not in any way be interpreted as me being bias for this vendor. Some vendors even offer ConfigMgr console integrated extension, which you may or may not prefer, however ensure that the vendor you decide to go with offers a software update catalog for third-party patching before you go ahead an buy their product, if you want to use the built-in feature in ConfigMgr. There are several vendors offering a catalog service, for example:

Third-party vendors have for many years now provided their own catalogs with access to the latest version of applications, some containing more applications than others, but they all serve the same purpose, assisting the ConfigMgr administrator in staying current with their deployed applications. ConfigMgr provides various methods to accommodate this, however they can be time consuming and require a lot of management. Today it’s more important than ever to stay current, meaning that you ensure that you’re running the latest versions of the applications you deploy in your organization. Why use ConfigMgr and third-party software updates catalogs This feature was first released in the ConfigMgr Technical Preview version 1806, however this blog post covers the Current Branch release of ConfigMgr.

In this blog post we’ll go through the requirements for configuring this new feature including all the required steps necessary to get you up and running. This means that you don’t have to use for instance System Center Update Publisher (SCUP) to handle the publishing of meta data into ConfigMgr.

Starting with ConfigMgr Current Branch 1806, you can now enable and deploy Third-party Software Updates from a partner catalog from within ConfigMgr using the existing software update management process. By enabling this feature, it reduces the infrastructure foot print for managing Third-party Software Updates by incorporating it directly into the product.

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