WingetCreate: Keeping WinGet packages up-to-date!
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, efficiency is key. Windows users have long awaited an experience, where the simplicity of installing, updating, and managing software could be as seamless as executing a single command. Enter Windows Package Manager, or WinGet, a powerful tool that reshapes the way we handle software packages on the Windows platform. WinGet brings the simplicity of Linux package managers to the Windows environment, enabling users to use the command-line for installing their favorite packages.
WinGet - Application management - Thoughts
Good morning Has anybody started serious work on managing their corporate devices via this solution, especially in deployment and patch management. I am unable to find an official Microsoft repository for the management of applications in GitHub which tells me Microsoft are not managing devices via WinGet and although I have found work via various MVPs on this new functionality it seems to be limited to initial deployment. Anybody doing serious work with this? In my humble unprofessional opinion (hobbyist) this functionality would solve many problems. I have noticed that Microsoft.Office aka Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise when deployed via this method installs the x86 application on x64 hardware, which is not my preferred solution, so if anybody knows where to find the appropriate switches, I would appreciate a heads up. I have included my test code (work of another) with a few minor modifications. Its basically proactive remediation - MEM, ready but for a couple of lines. <# Reference https://www.codewrecks.com/post/general/winget-update-selective/ Notes This code is the work of Gian Maria and has been published on the above link This code has been tested to ensure it works on a upgrade case and a no upgrade case The code is missing the actual upgrade command which is winget upgrade --all --force --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements The code is not proactive remediation ready, but can be with a couple of exit statements. #> class Software { [string]$Name [string]$Id [string]$Version [string]$AvailableVersion } $upgradeResult = winget upgrade | Out-String if (!($upgradeResult -match "No installed package found matching input criteria.")) { Write-Host "There is something to update" -ForegroundColor Green $lines = $upgradeResult.Split([Environment]::NewLine) # Find the line that starts with Name, it contains the header $fl = 0 while (-not $lines[$fl].StartsWith("Name")) { $fl++ } # Line $i has the header, we can find char where we find ID and Version $idStart = $lines[$fl].IndexOf("Id") $versionStart = $lines[$fl].IndexOf("Version") $availableStart = $lines[$fl].IndexOf("Available") $sourceStart = $lines[$fl].IndexOf("Source") # Now cycle in real package and split accordingly $upgradeList = @() For ($i = $fl + 1; $i -le $lines.Length; $i++) { $line = $lines[$i] if ($line.Length -gt ($availableStart + 1) -and -not $line.StartsWith('-')) { $name = $line.Substring(0, $idStart).TrimEnd() $id = $line.Substring($idStart, $versionStart - $idStart).TrimEnd() $version = $line.Substring($versionStart, $availableStart - $versionStart).TrimEnd() $available = $line.Substring($availableStart, $sourceStart - $availableStart).TrimEnd() $software = [Software]::new() $software.Name = $name; $software.Id = $id; $software.Version = $version $software.AvailableVersion = $available; $upgradeList += $software } } $upgradeList | Format-Table #Actual upgrade command - been removed as this code needs to be rewritten for proactive remediation #winget upgrade --all --force --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements } else { Write-Host "There is nothing to upgrade" -ForegroundColor Yellow } Thankyou for reading and like I said, I'm a hobbyist in a test tenant but keen to learn. Sincerely.
