Release & Patch Management

Release and Patch Management add-on makes the process of configuring, deploying and updating applications fast and easy. IT teams will find themselves with more bandwidth thanks to a significant reduction in time spent on these otherwise tedious tasks.

Features

The following features are provided with the Release and Patch Management add-on license:

• Development, Test, Acceptance, Production (DTAP) support for packages.
• Condition Sets
• Full access to the Application Workspace Setup Store connector
• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager connector
• Nutanix Frame connector
• Microsoft Store connector
• VMware Horizon connector

Components

The Release and Patch Management has three components:

Application Workspace Setup Store

The Application Workspace Setup Store is a catalogue of thousands of free available Windows application setups and patches.
The Application Workspace Setup Store is available as a connector when using Release and Patch Management. But is also available in Setup Commander when using the MDT, ConfigMgr, Ivanti EPM or ZENworks connector. See How to receive e-mail notifications for new updates and automatically update your managed packages (Blog) for more information.

Application Workspace Setup Store Notification System

Through the Application Workspace Setup Store Notification System we send E-mails with information like release notes, patches, CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) or VirusTotal score for the applications which you imported from the Application Workspace Setup Store into your Application Workspace System.

Setup Commander

Setup Commander enables you to prepare your own in-house applications, applications which need to be purchased or any application which can’t be provided through the Application Workspace Setup Store for deployment.

This documentation section is intended for

Administrators who are responsible for the preliminary setup and for running of Release and Patch Management. They should also have a good understanding of patching strategies, patch classifications, software update deployment workflows and endpoint security vulnerability.

What you will find in this documentation section

• How to create Application Workspace applications for various third-party applications (present in the Application Workspace Setup Store or not)
• The applications configuration wizards
• Recommendations and important information about the third-party applications