[sllewe]

For Windows deployments - Microsoft Intune provides the ability to monitor any application and its version. Updating is automatic provided its installed correctly and using detection rules. The responsible party updates the MSI installation files and the local management service will perform the update.

[EvanAnderson]

Yeah, but who uses MSIs? Windows Installer is just a flash in the pan. It's so much easier to just make an Inno Setup-based SETUP.EXE. /s

It makes me shudder to think how many hours (days? weeks?) of my life I'd have back if developers had just packaged their Windows application as MSIs instead of making me, as a sysadmin who wants consistently updated client computers, do it for them.

[vbezhenar]

vscode does not provide MSI for download. Even Microsoft can't be bothered to do it.

[EvanAnderson]

The inmates have been running the asylum at Microsoft for a number of years now. I assume it’s necessary to re-invent wheels, badly, for career advancement. (That’s not to say that MSI is particular nice, but it works reasonably well and saves a lot of downstream headaches.)

[sllewe]

MSFT provides a method to repackage .EXE into a deployable package (named: Intunewin).

https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-To...