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Using app sets

An App Set is a reusable bundle of apps, like "Standard workstation" or "Developer tools", that you deploy in one action instead of publishing apps one by one.

Two kinds of set

  • Global library: ready-made starter sets (for example Windows Essentials), shared and read-only.
  • Personal: your own sets, which you edit freely.

Start from a starter set

  1. Open App sets → Global library.
  2. On a set you like, select Customize. PatchBee copies it into your Personal sets, pinning each app to its current latest version. The original starter set is never changed.

Create or edit a set

  1. Open App sets → Personal.
  2. Create a set and name it, or select Edit on an existing one.
  3. In the editor, search the catalog to add apps, or Remove apps you do not want.
  4. Save to keep your changes, or Cancel to discard.

Deploy a set

  1. On a set, select Deploy.
  2. Choose the target: Customers (every Intune tenant a selected customer owns) or Intune tenants (specific connections you pick).
  3. Confirm. PatchBee creates a publish job for each app on each selected tenant, skipping anything already in progress.

Example: a baseline for every new customer

An MSP keeps a personal set called Managed workstation baseline: Chrome, 7-Zip, Adobe Reader, Zoom, VLC and Notepad++. Onboarding a new customer means connecting their tenant, then Deploy on the set with that customer selected: six apps, packaged, published and assigned in one action, identically to every other customer. When Chrome ships an update, update tracking covers every tenant the set was deployed to.

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