CMPackager VS Evergreen

CMPackager if you want a single file that does everything

Current package used. https://github.com/asjimene/CMPackager/blob/main/Disabled/AdobeReader.xml

Cmpackager can assist automated application deployment. https://github.com/asjimene/CMPackager

It's not that I didn't like the answer, I just made the post on other platforms to expand it further, since sometimes the community can't be here. The script using -ComObject for internet explorer works very well, it captures the link and if I want I can download it, but the only dissatisfaction is that this command doesn't seem to work on Windows Server. But for you who still don't know why I'm looking to do this via powershell, it's for SCCM using a utility that automates software downloading and publishing for SCCM which is CMPackager

This is the way https://github.com/asjimene/CMPackager

The CMPackager script is really amazing, and if implemented well it can really reduce the number of manual interventions in terms of SCCM applications. But I saw some details about CMPackager. It basically puts the name of the application along with its version, and this is a problem because if there is more than one version (Chrome for example) you will see several entries in the Applications field in SCCM, such as Chrome 97.04692.70, Chrome 97.04692 .71, Chrome 97.04692.72, Chrome 97.04692.73 and this is really annoying. So opening the CMPackager.ps1 I removed the variable "$ApplicationSWVersion" that is related to the display name of the application in SCCM, and so far everything is ok, the script continues to download and create the package and distribute normally the problem is that it cannot just update the content within that same name, as if it depended on always creating a new name in SCCM and that really is a problem. As this log shows, I had a Google Chrome entry in the Applications list in SCCM and its version is 68.127.32839 and the latest version CMPackager found is 97.0.4692.71 but instead of it just changing the version and update the content, it simply skipped that part and ended the script.

Immy actually installs and keeps a lot of the more popular items from Ninite/Chocolatey up to date since the release of the 'Dynamic Version' feature where Immy reaches out to the vendor to get the latest version. This was inspired by https://github.com/aaronparker/evergreen and https://github.com/DanGough/Nevergreen

Evergreen (and its cousin Nevergreen) if you just want the latest installer and you want to do the rest yourself

Draw inspiration from Evergreen.

Finally, whatever you’ve uploaded to Intune will be stale as soon as an update happens to that package. Immy reaches out to the API to get the agent version that matches your instance of Automate, Control, N-Central, Ninja, Sophos, BitDefender, Printix, CloudRadial, HelpDesk Buttons, and many more. It does this also for many common line of business applications like Adobe, Bluebeam, Quickbooks, Zoom, Greenshot, 7zip, Snagit, Camtasia, I mean we add new ones daily I’m just rattling off the ones I can think of before my wife tells me to put my phone down. To be fair I have to give credit to the guys at Evergreen and Nevergreen for my inspiration. They are really doing the Lord’s work.

Example https://github.com/aaronparker/evergreen

aaronparker/Evergreen: Create evergeen Windows image build scripts with the latest version and download links for applications (github.com)

Lately I’ve been using this module, to download the binaries for the most common apps: https://github.com/aaronparker/Evergreen