Deploy Beats packetbeat to Microsoft Intune
ElasticWindowsversion 9.5.4, 15 September 2026
Beats packetbeat is in the PatchBee catalog as a Windows app from Elastic, 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
Beats packetbeat 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 "Beatspacketbeat.msi" /qn /norestart
- Uninstall
- msiexec /x {2E7B78F4-AE35-56EE-867F-51E274A29798} /qn /norestart
- Detection
- MSI product code. Product code {2E7B78F4-AE35-56EE-867F-51E274A29798}, version 9.5.4 or newer.
- Requirements
- x64 · per machine
Installers in version 9.5.4
| 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 Beats packetbeat in its winget manifest. PatchBee uses them as the installer's unattended switches, so the package installs without a click.
- Install location
- INSTALLDIR="<INSTALLPATH>"
About Beats packetbeat
Packetbeat is an open source network packet analyzer that ships the data to Elasticsearch. Think of it like a distributed real-time Wireshark with a lot more analytics features.
The Packetbeat shippers sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis or Thrift and correlate the messages into transactions.
For each transaction, the shipper inserts a JSON document into Elasticsearch, where it is stored and indexed. You can then use Kibana to view key metrics and do ad-hoc queries against the data.
- Publisher
- Elastic
- License
- Elastic-2.0
- Source
- winget · Elastic.Packetbeat
- Versions in catalog
- 30
How this becomes an app in your tenant
Sign in with your Microsoft work account and connect your Intune tenant once. Find Beats packetbeat 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 Elastic 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.