Automated Predeployment Testing of Windows Applications

How Patch360 Beats the Competition in Patch Management

Written by James Graham, PhD | Sep 26, 2024 8:40:42 PM

Enterprise IT organizations are always trying to figure out how to do more with less—fewer people, less money, and automating manual tasks. Establishing a low maintenance patch management solution is key to keeping your enterprise at peak performance and operating safely. 

Enterprise IT teams are overwhelmed by relentless application updates and the constant emergence of new threats. Untold hours are lost to testing, packaging, and delivering application updates. This is time the IT organization just doesn’t have. The complexity of managing application patches and updates dramatically reduces IT team productivity. 

With a vast and ever-changing threat landscape, staying secure is even more challenging than ever. It’s time for enterprises to automate and validate application packages before deployment. New Rimo3 Patch360 software provides automated patch management and validation of third-party application patches to keep your Windows application environment updated and current.    

Patch360 Automates Application Patch Management 

Patch360 offers a complete third-party application patch management solution for Microsoft Windows operating system estates, from import to patch download, then from automatic validation of the patch to delivery to your Microsoft Intune management plane. Let Patch360 take care of downloading newly released patches, validating patches against your unique environment, then automatically handing off the new application packages to deployment platforms like Microsoft Intune. 

 

Browse or search the Rimo3 Patch360 third-party application catalog of over 25,000 applications and installers. 

 

No other patch management solutions in the market today can validate patched application packages or automate the download, patching, packaging, and deployment of applications like Rimo3 Patch360.   

Older patch tools focus only on the downloading and deployment of patches.  They have very limited testing of those patches, only allowing limited manual testing on “vanilla” OS images. Those tools also do not support any homegrown or custom images.   

For a robust enterprise organization, the old way of patching probably will not ease the modern patching headaches.   

Let’s face it, your enterprise application estate is unique to you. You need to be able to support Windows applications old and new. Plus, you need to be able to validate the application patches will work in your custom environment. Manual and “vanilla” testing aren’t going to relieve all the manual tasks you’ll still need to accomplish to deliver a patched application. 

Improved Patch Validation and Testing 

Patch360 has a unique and robust validation experience, automatically testing application patches against your current operating system environment, including other application dependencies. Patch360 quickly runs a validation assessment against your intended new operating system, whether that new operating system is a new Windows version for physical or Cloud PC on Windows 365 or a new Windows multi-session version for Azure Virtual Desktop. 

Patch360 validates packaged applications against your custom environment - this unique contextual relevance verifies successful results after application patching. 

Automated Patching For Over 25,000 Applications and Installers 

Rimo3 integrates the biggest and best third-party application catalogs in a searchable and browsable catalog, featuring over 25,000 applications and installers. The Patch360 catalog is constantly growing to include more Windows applications.  Patch360 fully supports the export of your applications to Microsoft Intune, automating the conversion to Intune Win32 format. This capability complements the Rimo3 Workspace360 platform’s capabilities to help you migrate applications from Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)  to Microsoft Intune.  

Patch360 supports the ability to manually import one-off application patches or import a new application entirely. New versions of applications that you have previously imported to Workspace360 are automatically imported as and when they are released, so you don’t need to go hunting for third-party application patches . 

Make the Switch to Patch360 

As an enterprise IT organization, you need help. There is too much to do and you need an automated way to take the number of tasks off your plate.  

Patch360 automatically downloads, validates, adds to your management plane, and then “watches” for the next patch and automatically does it all again!  

Adopt Patch360 for validated application packages that help reach your enterprise goals for secure application environments.