r/PatchMyPC

Here is an example.

We are patching Python using PmPC, which currently supplies patches for version 3.13 and 3.14.

But I'm being asked is: "We need to upgrade everyone to version 3.14, can Patch My PC do that?" (we have older versions of Python like 2.7, 3.10, 3.11, etc. And apparently Python 3.15 is just around the corner.)

Currently I'm saying "No, we can patch supported versions within the 'major' release, but PmPC cannot upgrade users from one 'major' release to another".

Is this right? Are there tools that can do this 'major' upgrade stuff?

(Please note, I'm using Python as an example but in reality, I'm being asked about multiple software titles with similar situations)

TIA

Has anyone else run into this issue yet? It's been happening for the last week or two in my environment. We are not using PMPC Cloud. I've tried deleting the deployment in SCCM. Turning off the app in publisher. Deleting the folder it saves to. It recreates the folder, but it's empty. Any advice would be great.

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop 6.9.1.1 (EXE-x64) 5/25/2026 6:56:28 PM 323.47 MB

An error occurred while publishing an update Error: The directory is not empty. ErrorType: [System.IO.IOException]

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop 6.9.1.1 (EXE-x64) 5/25/2026 7:04:05 PM 323.47 MB

An error occurred while processing an Installable Application Value cannot be null. Parameter name: sourceArchiveFileName

I know this has come up a number of times, but wanted to see if things had changed much (if at all).

Like most people we have a small set of apps that are required on all devices (Edge, Teams, OneDrive) and a catalog of apps set to Available for everyone (NP++, Firefox, PDF readers etc)

All of the apps we have available or required have their accompanying “Update” app set to required on All Devices.

Others have mentioned this can become a problem if your catalog grows too big. Even if the requirements script isn’t matched, it still has to run. Haven’t faced that problem yet thankfully, but we have had issues during ESP. In particular things like Edge and Visual C++ do not like getting force upgraded during enrolment.

I’ve been pondering over this for a while and may have a workable solution that should avoid any install or upgrade during ESP, without requiring device group membership changes.

So back to the original statement, was there a development around this conundrum previously?