ARM-based Windows Devices and Patching

jonnathanp
jonnathanp Member Posts: 2 ✭
edited January 8 in Patch Management

Maybe a silly question but I have to ask…

With ARM-based Windows devices becoming a bit more prominent, are we confident that the Atera Software patching via Chocolately or Winget - which supposedly auto-updates Microsoft Teams for example - will be deploying the correct updates to those machines?

I have a hunch Chocolately would break the software on these devices or insist on installing the standard package (which could be unstable on ARM devices) since I can't find mention of ARM64 packages there on Chocolatey, not sure about Winget though - in theory Winget will be fine?

I'm just concerned if we start introducing these ARM-based devices, like the new MS Surface Laptops, into the environment we would need to exclude these from any existing Patch orchestration in Atera, at least for certain software that requires ARM package for more stability/support - or maybe ensure we're using Winget option?

Has Atera themselves vetted these devices and the Atera Software Patching on them?

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  • jonnathanp
    jonnathanp Member Posts: 2 ✭
    edited January 8

    I did some more reading up, it looks like Chocolatey uses a bootstrapper/installer that will download the latest Teams MSIX package from Microsoft. And in the Microsoft article it does mention ARM devices there. I assume the installer will automatically negotiate the correct Teams to install. So then I assume my concerns are addressed. But anyone with more insights please feel free to confirm/deny this assumption :)

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