Deploy Chef Infra Client to Microsoft Intune
Chef Software, Inc.Windowsversion 18.11.11.1
Chef Infra Client is in the PatchBee catalog as a Windows app from Chef Software, Inc., synced from the Windows Package Manager community repository (winget). Pick it in the App Library and PatchBee writes the deployment plan below, builds the package, publishes it to your Intune tenant and assigns it to the Entra groups you choose. New versions then follow through your update rings.
The plan PatchBee writes
Chef Infra Client as an Intune app
The standard form for a MSI (WiX) (x64, per machine). The real plan is generated from the installer when you package, and shown in full before anything is published; every field can be changed.
- Intune app type
- Windows app (Win32), .intunewin
- Install
- msiexec /i "ChefInfraClient.msi" /qn /norestart
- Uninstall
- msiexec /x {2051825E-2946-46D0-9763-B0F767FF707C} /qn /norestart
- Detection
- MSI product code. Product code {2051825E-2946-46D0-9763-B0F767FF707C}, version 18.11.11.1 or newer.
- Requirements
- x64 · per machine
Installers in version 18.11.11.1
| Architecture | Type | Scope | Hash |
|---|---|---|---|
| x64 | MSI (WiX) | per machine | SHA-256 published |
PatchBee downloads the installer from the publisher's own URL and verifies its SHA-256 against the catalog before packaging. "None published" means the source carries no hash for this download, so that check has nothing to compare against; packaging still works.
Silent install switches
Recorded for Chef Infra Client in its winget manifest. PatchBee uses them as the installer's unattended switches, so the package installs without a click.
- Install location
- INSTALLLOCATION="<INSTALLPATH>"
About Chef Infra Client
Chef Infra Client is an agent that runs locally on every node that’s under management by Chef Infra Server. When Chef Infra Client runs, it performs all of the steps required for bringing a node into the expected state, including:
- Registering and authenticating the node with Chef Infra Server
- Synchronizing cookbooks from the Chef Infra Server to the node
- Compiling the resource collection by loading each of the required cookbooks, including recipes, attributes, and all other dependencies
- Taking the appropriate and required actions to configure the node based on recipes and attributes
- Reporting summary information on the run to Chef Automate
- Publisher
- Chef Software, Inc.
- Homepage
- www.chef.io/downloads
- License
- Proprietary
- Source
- winget · ChefSoftware.InfraClient
- Versions in catalog
- 10
How this becomes an app in your tenant
Sign in with your Microsoft work account and connect your Intune tenant once. Find Chef Infra Client in the App Library, open its plan (the commands, detection rule and requirements above, editable) and publish: PatchBee downloads and verifies the installer, builds the package, creates the Intune app and assigns your groups. When Chef Software, Inc. ships a new version, PatchBee detects it and rolls it out through your rings, with supersedence and rollback.
Read the step-by-step guideMore Windows apps
Catalog data as of 11 October 2026, from the Windows Package Manager community repository (winget). The product re-reads the source every night and plans against the live catalog, so the version here may already be one behind. Nothing is published to a tenant without an administrator approving the plan.